Mauro Lourenço, Author at African Arguments

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Mauro Lourenço

Mauro Lourenço is a geospatial ecologist and data analyst for the National Geographic Okavango Wilderness Project (link below). He works on research topics related to freshwater ecosystems, wetlands, forests, fire, carbon, and environmental monitoring. He uses Remotely Sensed datasets and Geographical Information Systems towards high-impact scientific outputs and research. He has worked throughout southern Africa including Lesotho, Angola, South Africa and Botswana. Click here for more information about the National Geographic Okavango Wilderness Project: https://www.nationalgeographic.org/society/our-programs/okavango/.

African Arguments Climate Debating Ideas Politics Uncategorized

By Mauro Lourenço
November 5, 2025
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Angola’s Overlooked Role in the Zambezi River System

The Zambezi is one of Africa’s great rivers. Its basin, covering approximately 1,370,000 km2, is home to approximately 50 million people and spreads across eight countries: ...

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Angola Climate Southern Top story

By Mauro Lourenço
January 24, 2024
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Africa’s life-sustaining water towers have been overlooked for too long

International researchers’ focus on ice to define natural water towers leaves Africa’s critical systems off the map, and with little protection. Africa is a water stressed ...

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