Zimbabwe's Environmental Management Agency is using satellite technology and vegetation mapping to predict and monitor wildfires as the country enters the dry season.

Hillcrest School has approached the Mutare High Court seeking an urgent order to stop gold mining activities at Mt Sinai in Toronto, arguing that dust, noise and heavy machinery are disrupting learning and threatening the surrounding environment.

Zimbabwe has approved a nationwide task force to tackle illegal and unregulated mining following findings of environmental damage, infrastructure destruction and social problems in Bindura.

Residents and civic organisations in Mutare have called for an immediate halt to mining at Christmas Pass, alleging a mining company ignored an EMA order and continued excavations above Toronto suburb.

Residents of Buhera have petitioned Parliament over alleged pollution from the Sabi Star Lithium Mine, claiming contaminated water, dust-related illnesses among schoolchildren and livestock deaths.

CHRA calls for Lake Chivero pollution to be declared a national disaster HARARE – The Combined Harare Residents Association (CHRA) has called on the Government to declare the worsening pollution of Lake Chivero a state of national disaster, warning that unchecked contamination is threatening public health, increasing water treatment costs and undermining Zimbabwe's environmental sustainability. Speaking at a media briefing in Harare on Tuesday, CHRA Programmes Manager Mable M

Twenty people were arrested in Harare's city centre during a joint anti-littering operation involving Harare City Council, EMA and the police as authorities intensify efforts to improve sanitation and environmental cleanliness.

HARARE – Local Government and Public Works Minister Daniel Garwe has ordered Members of Parliament (MPs) to halt plans to build residential stands on Harare's protected Monavale Wetland, bringing an end to a controversial development proposal that sparked widespread opposition from environmental activists and conservation groups.

CHIMANIMANI — For months, the tranquil waters of the Haroni River flowed brown with sediment as excavators chewed through riverbanks and mining equipment roared day and night in one of Zimbabwe's most ecologically sensitive regions.