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2022: another hottest year on record! Welcome Back!

Happy New Year: 2023.Last year the year 2022, the average global temperature was about 1.15 degrees Celsius. 2022 marks the 8thconsecutive year from 2015-2022 where each year the annual...

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Critical Minerals: has Africa learned from its past experience?

African nations are blessed with 30 percent of the world’s critical minerals. Minerals that the world needs to develop solar panels, wind turbines, renewable energy storage, electric vehicles, defence infrastructures, communication infrastructure, digital economy and many more. However, past mining activities since colonial era...

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Human Greed: The Silent Destroyer of Nature’s Fragile Balance.

Humanly speaking everything existing in nature from forests, minerals, oceans, water bodies, and other natural resources are seen as infinite by the human eye. Infinite in the sense that there are more resources to be mined or prospected for, more land to be utilised,...

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Why planting mangroves is not the solution.

As forests, mangroves are very adaptable and can handle a lot of disturbances. “I don’t support planting mangroves; instead, I support finding entire answers to the problems that mangroves face” says Dr. Judith Okello, a senior study scientist and mangrove ecologist at the Kenya...

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Empowering Women, Revitalizing Mangroves: A Story from Kenya

Munje, Mswambeni Kenya, In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, 15 women came together to preserve a portion of mangrove forest along the Vanga-Funzi Bay section on the southern coast of Kenya. Four years later, the Tunusuru Conservation Women’s Group has grown into a 30-member...

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Meet a Kenyan community saving the coral reefs.

Along the Pate-Kiunga area in Lamu County, a small archipelago north of Mombasa in Kenya, Coral reefs have degraded over the years. in Pate Island, the largest island in the Lamu Archipelago, lies between the towns of Lamu and Kiunga, More than 3, 000...

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Spring water changing lives in Kenya.

Women in Olailamutia, a town in Kenya’s Narok County, have had problems with diarrhoea, stomachaches, and skin rashes for many years. Having access to clean drinking water from a spring is helping to get rid of these problems. Families here got water to drink...

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Environmental Journalist and media consultant based in Nairobi,
Kenya.

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