A post covid recovery plan should prioritise people and not a polluting coal industry, this is according to Greenpeace Africa. The Kenyan budget outlining the governments’ plans for Kenya’s Post COVID recovery released in June 2021 clearly shows the government's intentions...
Technology startup Amitruck and waste management solutions provider Sanergy have announced a partnership to tackle waste management in Nairobi, Kenya.
Through the partnership, they have built an end-to-end value chain network of operations and efficient logistics that will collect, treat and convert...
The National Environmental Management Authority remains non-committal in protecting Lake Victoria and Nakuru despite confirming that their mandate to safeguard the health of citizens remains critical and essential.
In a meeting with Greenpeace and community members on Tuesday, NEMA representatives...
By Maurice Munga Gathu
Linda Mazingira is an initiative that was started by the Ewang`an Foundation with an objective to restore landscapes in arid and semi-arid areas in Kenya and promote nature-based solutions like planting and growing trees as part...
By Maurice Gathu Munga
A pandemic brings about both negative and positive impacts. Kenya is one of the developing countries that heavily depend on agriculture whilst commercial trading being a major contributor to its economy. Evidently, a number of sectors...
By Kioko Kivandi
In 1984 Kenya was hit by a severe drought. The country’s food banks were severely stressed just as were its water sources.
Writing about it in July that year, Allan Cowell, a New York Times journalist noted that...
By Kioko Kivandi
I was photographing a wounded Marabou Stork on the shores of Lake Naivasha on Saturday March 25 when a Hammerkop appeared from nowhere and rested on the shallow end of the lake.
Nearer to thee: This stork had...
The Pan African Climate Justice Alliance (PACJA) launched the African Climate Change and Environmental Reporting Awards (ACCER) 2016. The competition that aims to recognise and reward excellence in
environmental journalism at all levels of society welcomes entries from passionate citizen journalists as well...
By Alex Njeru
I met the young man at Kenyatta National Hospital ward, where my dad was convalescing from an operation. Years and years of smoking tobacco cigarettes had done things to my dad’s body and this time round arteries...
The proposed routing of the new railway through Nairobi has been opposed by a section of Nairobi residents associations and the Conservation Alliance of Kenya.
The two groups object to the proposed routings of new railway through Nairobi and propose...
