Guardian: On June 10, the very day that Thabo Mbeki of South Africa hosted an environmental conference in Johannesburg, we at the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) launched a new atlas, one that depicts Africa’s rapidly changing environmental landscape. Africa: Atlas of Our Changing Environment, compiled on behalf of African environmental ministers, underlines how development choices, population growth, climate change and, in some cases, conflicts are shaping and impacting Africa’s natural and …