Zanzibar, Tanzania, Nov 13, 2025 (AFP) - Zanzibar women turn to sponge farming as oceans heat up

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2025-11-13

At about 10 o'clock every morning, women in hijabs and loose long dresses wade through Zanzibar's turquoise shallow tides to tend their sponge farms -- a new lifeline after climate change upended their former work. Rising ocean temperatures, overfishing and pollution have steadily degraded marine ecosystems around the island, undermining a key source of income for locals in Jambiani village who long depended on farming seaweed. Instead, they hav......

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