What Are the Hidden Environmental Costs of Solar Energy?
Wind, solar, hydro, geothermal, and biofuels are some of the renewable energy resources. They are said to be green because they come from na...
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Africa Climate Conversations.
Climate Change conversations from an African perspectives. Hosted by #SophieMbugua a #kenyan Environmental journalist.
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The untold story of Kenya's Lake Naivasha floods.
The area around Kenya's Lake Naivasha, including Kihoto, is considered part of the broader Lake Naivasha wetland ecosystem, as it is within...
Weaving for Survival.
As the climate crisis continues, come with me to Syethe village, southeast of Kenya's capital, Nairobi where we meet a group of women earnin...
Legislative Frameworks: The Key to an Energy Transition Focused on Human Rights
Clear frameworks for community benefit sharing in the mining and renewable energy sectors are essential. However, Manson Gwanyanya, the rese...
How can airlines help bridge existing weather data gaps?
Sensors on aeroplanes measure wind speed, humidity, and temperature, which is crucial for weather forecasting. As climate-related extreme ev...
Meet a Kenyan teacher teaching children crucial environmental skills.
Our children are the next generation. We, as humans, pass on our legacy to them, whether good or bad. The environment underpins humans' surv...
How WhatsApp transformed 70-year-old Kenyan woman's beaded basket sales
This week, I was visiting a town in Makueni County, located in the southeastern part of Kenya. About an hour's drive from Makueni's capital...
Critical Minerals: has Africa learned from its past experience?
African nations are blessed with 30% of the world's critical minerals. Mineral that the world needs to develop solar panels, wind turbines,...
Human Greed: The Silent Destroyer of Nature's Fragile Balance
Humanly speaking, forests, minerals, oceans, water bodies, and other natural resources are seen as infinite by the human eye. Infinite in th...
Why planting mangroves is not the solution.
Mangroves are versatile and flexible forests that can cope with enormous disturbances. Dr. Judith Okello, a senior research scientist and ma...
Empowering Women, Revitalizing Mangroves: A Story from Kenya
Featured today are a group of ladies who are establishing a livelihood by planting mangroves. About sixty kilometres south of Mombasa in Kwa...
Meet a Kenyan community saving the coral reefs.
Today we meet a Kenyan community saving the coral reefs along the Kenyan coast. Coral reefs along the Lamu-Kiunga area in Lamu County, a sma...
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...
Cabins made of plastic helping keep Kenya's Masai Mara clean.
In today's episode, we meet Isaac Macharia, a Kenyan social entrepreneur who makes cabins out of plastic to keep Kenya's Masai Mara clean. I...
Meet a young Kenyan lady repurposing waste glass at Masai Mara.
Picture this. It's a lovely evening. You and your loved one are seated somewhere, enjoying some juice or beer from a glass made out of liquo...
"Africa needs to create It's specific facility for climate action" says AGN.
For effective climate action in Africa to take shape, the African Group of negotiators lead negotiator on finance, Ambassador Mohamed Nasr,...
COP28: How can Africa solve the climate finance access challenge?
The climate finance needs of developing countries have risen way beyond the 100 billion USD promised by developed countries 15 years ago. Th...
COP28 kicks off with high promises to deliver on finance.
COP28 takes place against the backdrop of increased financial needs to address climate change adaptation, mitigation, as well as loss and da...
African Lead Negotiator: "I hope the loss and damage fund does not become a bargaining chip at COP28."
A 24-member transitional committee on loss and damage issued a proposal for a new loss and damage fund ahead of the 28th UN Climate Summit (...
Lake Ol' Bolossat community volunteers saving Kenyan endangered bird.
Lake Ol' Bolossat is the only lake in the Kenyan highlands, situated in Nyandarua County, about a three and a half-hour drive from Kenya's c...