Meteorological authority says local media will play critical role in saving lives and property during El Nino weather phenomenon
The KMSA has already warned that most parts of the country will receive above-average rainfall while others like Turkana and Samburu will experience near-to above-average rainfall.
Climate change: Kenya’s Rift Valley region grapples with imminent merger of fresh and saline water lakes
Dr Pacifica Ogola said they are deeply disturbed by the massive displacement caused by the rapidly expanding shorelines across the two lakes to the extent it has affected the region’s rich biodiversity.
Africa is continent where man and his ambiances are eternally having a holy communion often misunderstood by foreigners
Yet statistics, however necessary, have a strange weakness: they can tell us how many children are outside school, but they cannot tell us what it feels like for a child to watch other children leave for school while she remains behind.
By re-electing a man who insists climate change is the ‘greatest con job ever’ and ‘green new scam’ US became complicit in World War III
Just in case you hadn’t noticed, as an imperial power (even, historically speaking, the imperial power, the only one at its height to control quite so much of the planet in one fashion or another), this country, too, is growing ever older and (again) in its own strange fashion going down (as, of course, all great imperial powers do sooner or later).
Kenya hosts African negotiators in capital to strengthen continent’s position on climate justice
Nana Antwi-Boasiako Amoah, chairman of the African Group of Negotiators Experts Support, said the discussions would prioritise agriculture, food security, gender equality and climate finance.
New study by Australia’s Flinders University warns global population is pushing Earth past sustainable limits
The huge gap between that sustainable level and today’s 8.3 billion population underscores global over-consumption, hidden for decades by heavy reliance on fossil fuels that boosted food, energy and industry while accelerating climate change and pollution, the researchers said.
Kenya secures riparian land along Nairobi River
Simon Osumba said Nairobi Rivers Commission will be giving out notices to owners of buildings along the Ngong River to enable the Commission implement the Regeneration plan and projects smoothly.
Death toll in flash-floods in Kenyan capital climbs to 45 as torrential rains pound East Africa
Nairobi police chief late last week said that in addition to drownings, some deaths were caused by electrocution. The floods had also done extensive damage to infrastructure and livelihoods. Officials said 172 vehicles that had been swept away by flood waters have been recovered.
Kenya embarks on environmental law reforms to bring the 2013 policies in tandem with emerging climate change realities
According to Environmental Secretary Selly Kimosop, who spoke during the closing of the three-day workshop at a Machakos hotel, the environmental landscape today is quite different from what it was a decade ago and the technical workshop provided an opportunity to address gaps and needs assessment.
Kenyan MPs pitch switch to biofuel production to protect environment, create jobs and stabilise local currency
National Assembly Departmental Committee on Environment, Forestry and Mining Chair Vincent Musyoka said during an engagement with stakeholders in Mombasa and visiting Indian government delegation, ARISE, Ministry of Energy, Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock and Kenya Sugar Board, that the country needs to embrace biofuel production from cassava, sugarcane and sweet sorghum.
