Tag: Environment

Sand harvesting, once a modest economic activity, has grown into a major environmental and social challenge in Kenya. The demand ...

Environment and Forestry Cabinet Secretary Aden Duale has warned of worrying trends in deforestation in Garissa and Wajir Counties. In ...

Coming from an area once blessed with abundant natural resources, Halimah Mohamed a 20-year-old lady, was triggered by the stark ...

Scientists have cautioned against misguided tree planting initiatives in Africa which are posing significant threats to crucial ecosystems. According to ...

The 6th United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA) scheduled for February 26 through to March 1, 2024, will take place at ...

The National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) has identified 29 companies operating within the Nairobi metropolis allegedly responsible for the pollution ...

Interior and National Administration Cabinet Secretary Kindiki Kithure on Monday, November 13 declared climate change a national security threat among ...

International banks from Europe, the Americas and Asia pump money into projects that harm the climate. These projects include coal, ...

Rwanda Investigation Bureau (RIB) and the Ministry of Environment have launched the use of drones that will help curb environmental ...

Derick Mbugua, 46, has been a bus driver in the Capital City Nairobi for the past 20 years. All this ...

Uganda's wildlife population has boomed over the past four decades, the wildlife minister said Wednesday, but warned more must be ...

A vast belt of trees vital for global production of fizzy drinks helps Sudanese farmers adapt to climate change, but ...

Acrid smoke swirls amid the buzzing of dozens of chainsaws under the majestic Nyiragongo volcano, producing scenes of devastation in ...

A Tunisian former environment minister has been sentenced to three years in prison for his role in the illegal import ...

As the world's environment ministers try to thrash out a new deal for nature, youth activists gathered at a UN ...

The sound of chirping birds drowns out the noise of passing cars near a school on the southern tip of ...

Pollution in Africa's fast-expanding cities is deadlier than thought, yet green solutions could save tens of thousands of lives and ...

Along a highway engulfed by dark waters, Nigeria residents load dozens of boats full of food to bring assistance to ...

To those who live here, it's like a little piece of heaven, boasting pink flamingos, white beaches, and blue ocean ...

More than six hundred people are now known to have perished in the worst floods in a decade in Nigeria, ...

Wild populations of monitored animal species have plummeted 70 percent in the last 50 years, according to a landmark assessment ...

Climate change risks undermining global energy security unless the use of renewables is dramatically scaled up, the UN warned Tuesday, ...

Uganda's energy minister on Tuesday slammed the European Parliament for seeking to delay a massive and controversial East African oil ...

Earth's climate is changing so quickly that humanity is running out of chances to fix it, primatologist Jane Goodall has ...

Eight Namibian cheetahs arrived in India Saturday, decades after their local extinction, in an ambitious project to reintroduce the spotted ...

Mounds of waste scattered along roads and vast landfills are a Nigerian eyesore. In Africa's biggest economy and most populous ...

An Italian naval vessel specialized in marine pollution clean-up arrived Tuesday in waters off Tunisia where a tanker laden with ...

A tanker carrying 750 tones of diesel fuel from Egypt to Malta sank Saturday off Tunisia's southeast coast, but officials ...

A string of deadly storms pummeled Madagascar, Malawi and Mozambique with more intense rainfall because of climate change, new research ...

Along a riverbank scarred by logging, Joseph Mwandenge Mangi points out a solitary mangrove tree, a species once abundant in ...