Forests and savannahs provide a wide variety of ecosystem services. They provide food and fuel. Additionally, they clean the air, filter water, and control floods, and erosion, while sustaining biodiversity. However, over the years human beings have plundered the earth prioritizing development needs over the environment. Kenya’s Olo0lua forest an urban forest located about half…
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Ahead of the 27thUN climate summit (COP27), the youth and other groups have called on world leaders to urgently cut down their emissions to limit warming to 1.5°C to reduce the future impact of climate change on humans and ecological systems. Against the backdrop of the recent global disruption events such as the Russia/Ukraine-instigated energy…
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By Nachilala Nkombo Nearly a quarter of Africa’s land is covered by forest. Zambia is fast losing its forest to deforestation. Sub-Saharan African countries consume fuelwood up to 200 percent times more than the trees’ annual growth rates. Hence, causing deforestation, lack of timber resources, and habitat loss for the species living in it. Many…
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Africa contributes the least to climate change. However, droughts, and floods in Africa has intensified. In about three months, flooding has affected 1.3 million people in the Horn of Africa according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA). Many weather stations in the Horn of African countries are recording their…
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