2025 Intake Open University of Kenya
2025 Intake Open University of Kenya

Environment

News about environmental protection initiatives, environmental impact assessment, and what bodies in the environment space doing

Tetra Pak roots for environmental conservation

Tetra Pak has launched a campaign to promote recycling and protect the environment. The campaign, dubbed “Go Nature, Go Carton”, is designed to promote the proper sorting, disposal and recycling of waste. Globally, human activity produces...

Saving Earth Africa to unveil environmental protection campaign dubbed ‘iElevate’

Saving Earth Africa (savingearthafrica.org) through the iElevate campaign has partnered with several organisations to save Lake Victoria from pollution. The partner organisations include Ecomak Recyclers, Uganda Wildlife Conservation Education Center, Lake Victoria Region Local Authorities...

AFRICA: Is our voice against climate change loud enough?

Many have undertaken to discuss, write and publicly talk about climate change due to global warming, how the change is already affecting different regions of the globe and what should be done to either...

OPINION: Approach environmental care ethically

The world in general is making efforts to care and conserve the environment. In Kenya and Africa in general, individuals, organizations, environmental activists, environmental agencies and governments are having discussions on different methods and policies...

Young people can make environmental conservation attainable

Climate change is here, and its impact intensifies overtime. That literally means that children and young people of today and the next generations will face the most horrific and devastating anger of the mistreated and...

Why weather conditions may worsen in future

Experts have said that climate change is likely to cause worse weather conditions should the government fail to take immediate action. A report titled, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), has shed light on the...

NEMA unhappy with excessive mining in Homa Bay

A mining craze in Homa Bay County, Kenya, is causing massive destruction of the ground, experts have warned. Reports indicate that private firms are indiscriminately excavating the soil in scrabble for precious minerals believed to...

How makeup contributes to sandalwood trafficking

By Faith Sudi and Kelvin Njai Across both conventional and social media platforms, you will see promotions and advertisements of beauty products. The products particularly target women and men who are keen to advance their looks. There...

How man turns plastics into toys to conserve environment

Plastic is a huge part of the global toy industry. According to the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) 2014 report titled Valuing Plastics, “The toy industry is the most plastic intensive industry in the world”. A...

Kenyan propelled to the World Green Building Council high table

Construction entrepreneur Elizabeth Chege has hit another career milestone following her appointment as the vice chair of the World Green Building Council (WGBC). Chege is co-founder and immediate former chairperson of the Kenya Green Building...