“Son, the rains failed us this season,” my father observed, standing over the land, looking at the farm: stunted maize crops on one side and shriveling rows of kales on the other, sloping down into the valley. That spelled…
AAR Insurance has launched a new phase of its nationwide tree-planting programme, targeting the planting of over 55,000 trees across Kenya under its sustainability framework, the INTENT campaign. The move reinforces the insurer’s long-term commitment to environmental stewardship and…
IUCN Members make history by adopting Motion 042, on phase out of fossil fuels, first of a kind across the entire global multilateral system
Similar to noise and plastic pollution, light pollution’s impact is profound, particularly on species we share the ecosystem with ie birds.
According to Raja, nature-based solutions embedded in building community resilience begin not with scientific plans, but with earning trust.
Ramsar Convention on wetlands COP15 is deemed a wake-up call and an opportunity to act decisively before the window closes
In Kenya’s arid north, scientists have discovered that certain fig trees do more than bear fruit; they turn carbon dioxide into stone, locking it away underground in a natural process that is promising to change reforestation practices and redefine…
Tropical rainforests cover 3% of the Earth’s surface but contain 40-50% of all carbon stored in the biosphere on land. Despite this vital role, researchers have revealed that tropical forests are dying at an increased rate, with consequences for…
The ocean plays a key role in carbon sequestration, particularly the Southern Ocean, which absorbs 40% of all human-made CO2 taken up by oceans. A groundbreaking study by an international team of researchers, published in Limnology and Oceanography, has…
Deep beneath the tropical forest floor and invisible to the eye, millions of fungal species are playing a critical role in the fight against climate change, yet most of them remain unknown to science. Mycorrhizal fungi are essential to…