Amid the refreshing breeze caressing Zanzibar’s Jambiani coast, Hindu Rajabu wades through knee-deep water to a lagoon. Wearing swimming goggles and a snorkel perched on her headscarf, the 31-year-old ...

As ocean temperatures rise, single mothers and divorced women in Zanzibar switch from seaweed to sea sponge farming to stay afloat. As a gentle morning breeze blows across the Zanzibar shore, Hindu ...

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 ...

Rising ocean temperatures have killed seaweed, depleted fish stocks and affected livelihoods in Tanzania's picturesque Zanzibar. Now sponge farming is helping turn the tide in one village, where women ...