Hi there! My name is Briony and I’m a 3 rd Year Environmental Geoscience student at UCL- welcome to my blog centring around the theme of water and environmental change in Africa. I plan to utilise this blog to discuss how environmental change, on a local and continental scale, is influencing the hydrological cycle of Africa and, subsequently, its population. I aim to make posts discussing the science involved in the climate system, historical and contemporary issues that environmental change has brought across the continent and specific case studies. The Earth’s climate is by nature a dynamic and ever-altering system. Communities around the world have successfully been adapting to environmental change for generations, however, the timescale on which the current climate crisis is occurring no longer makes adaption as easy. The reason why discussing these changes is so vital, and why I’ve chosen environmental change as the theme for this blog, is that it impacts every aspect of human