How US-funded water strategy will benefit Kenya
Global water strategy for Kenya launched earlier this week.
USAID 2030 goal is to have three-quarters of the global population with access to safe drinking water.
The agency works with Water Service Providers and private sanitation...
Kenya to tap young people’s potential in climate action, says environment CS
Climate change has escalated dire uncertainty for the future of our planet.
Extreme weather conditions such as droughts, floods and heatwaves have knocked severe impacts on food security, livelihood, and the economy.
In the process, vulnerable...
Foreign trash turning Kenya into plastic dumpsite
Discarded synthetic apparel still finds its way into imported mitumba bales despite stringent restrictions on plastic waste exportsResearch.
Five East African Community (EAC) nations—Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi, and Rwanda—announced a concerted plan in 2016 to...
GGFI: Accelerating e-mobility vision through awareness, innovation
Kenya is racing ahead of many African peers in phasing out fossil fuel-powered vehicles and embracing Electric Vehicles (EV).
Data from United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) confirms that air pollution is the most significant environmental...
How Magiro hydropower energy is changing lives
With an estimated 80% of all electric energy produced being geothermal, Kenya is the continent's top renewable energy generator.
Significant investments in geothermal, hydro, wind and solar sources come with this.
Kenya's renewable energy
When President William...
Sasini Group adopting green energy, phasing out electricity use
Sasini PLC, a public company that majors in the growth and processing of tea, coffee, avocado and macadamia nuts, could in the near future say bye to the use of electricity, which comes with...
Njeri: Shaping environmental conservation through modelling
Studies assert that a good number of projects rooted in environmental sustainability involve replanting forests, preserving wetlands, and protecting natural areas from resource harvesting.
One of the most significant environmental problems today is outdoor air...
Resistive traders risk arrest as NEMA buttresses plastic bags ban
The use of plastic bags was outlawed in Kenya in August 2017, which was hailed as the country’s most significant environmental conservation initiative.
However, in 2023, almost six years later, crackdowns are still looming practically...
Concerted efforts a must to contain the fangs of climate change
According to the United Nations (UN), Climate Change refers to the long-term changes in temperature and weather patterns. These changes may be organic, but since the 1800s, human activity has been the primary cause...
Alarm as wetlands in Nyamira dwindle
Tente area on the outskirts of Nyamira Town, Nyamira County- Kenya, is fast becoming an estate of brick and mortar.
This is good news until one mentions that the name Tente in the local Gusii dialect means...
