CUTTING carbon emissions will not cut death and suffering. More than 75 world leaders are meeting in Copenhagen over the next two weeks to attempt an agreement on climate change. They should start by admitting the political and economic failure of the Kyoto Protocol: its prohibitive costs will prevent us from addressing other, more pressing problems.
Chevron Nigeria Limited, Shell Petroleum Development Company [SPDC] and Nigerian Agip Oil Corporation[NAOC]have been found to be responsible for flaring 188.02 billion cubic feet[bcf] of gas in the country between July and September this year.
Climate talks opening today in Copenhagen, Denmark could be a turning point for developing countries.
The money raised by ministers and MPs in Nairobi a fortnight ago to help Mau forest evictees will be given out starting this week.
With their rugged glacier summits and heavily forested slopes, Mounts Kenya and Kilimanjaro stand tall as some of the most impressive land masses in Africa.
Lake Manyara is drying up. This time it is for real.
Today, world leaders meet in Copenhagen, Denmark over climate change. The two-week long meeting will negotiate a fresh agreement expected to replace the Kyoto Protocol that expires in 2012.
President Jacob Zuma has accepted the invitation from the Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Denmark, Mr Lars Løkke Rasmussen, to attend the Heads of State and Government Segment of the 15th Conference of the Parties (COP15) to the United Nations Framework Convention of Climate Change, (UNFCCC) and the 5th Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties (CMP-5) to the Kyoto ...
Without basic literacy almost a billion of the poorest people on earth will struggle to adapt to a changing environment, warns ActionAid on the eve of the UN climate change conference in Copenhagen as another lesser known UN Conference ends in the Amazon region of Brazil.
An environment and development institution which is based in Arusha facilitates residents of Uwiro village to apply ecological principles to manage the natural resources in their village effectively. Said differently, the institution has been working to enable residents of Uwiro to manage their village as an ecological village or rather an eco-village. Uwiro village is located on the foot of Mount ...
The Emerald and Alexandrite mines found at Mayoka village in Babati District will soon be closed to pave way for the expansion of Lake Manyara National Park.
President Mugabe yesterday officially launched the National Tree Planting programme at the Midlands State University in the Vungu District just outside Gweru.
This is a very important book in the struggle to save the oceans, its oldest creatures and all the rest of life in the sea. "The remaining whales are threatened by Japanese whaling in restricted waters, by heavy metals, global warming pollution, longlines, drift nets, low frequency sonar, ship strikes; 300,000 whales and small cetaceans are killed every year by tangling in fishing gear or as by ...
American movie star Jason Biggs has organised an event in California today to raise funds and awareness about the endangered Mountain Gorilla.
Ice is melting away on the world's highest mountains. The Rwenzori in western Uganda, the Himalayas of India and the world's highest mountain, Everest, are losing their glaciers due to global warming and the resultant climate change.
UGANDA is already experiencing the negative effects of climate change and the situation is expected to worsen as impending calamities will affect agriculture, infrastructure and health, the 2009 State of Uganda Population Report predicts.
SCIENTISTS have revealed that the quality of water supplied to Kampala is deteriorating. A team of professors and scientists from Makerere University and the University of Bergen in Norway, reveals in a report after a four-year-study, that consumption of Lake Victoria water is disastrous.
WHEN George Wanakina, the senior environment officer of Manafwa district, was a young boy, the weather on the periphery of Mt. Elgon Forest was cool and wet and the region was endowed with several tree species.
During the retreat by the Senate in Enugu, the capital of Enugu State last November, the South-east governors were unanimous in their call on the federal government to declare the eastern zone as an emergency for erosion intervention measures.
Please don't deny us this one. We richly and rightly deserve it.
Former President Moi was audacious enough to share his theories on environmental issues with us last Wednesday.
Benefits that were to accrue from relocating Kibarani dumpsite to the outskirts of Mombasa Town about two years ago have not been realised.
Issues that relate to water management, especially of interstate or cross-border water bodies have posed often extreme challenges amongst countries and states.
Mounting scepticism and deadlocked negotiations have culminated in an announcement that the Copenhagen climate conference that opens tomorrow will not result in a comprehensive global climate deal. Disappointing? Certainly. But the summit was always meant to be a transitional step. The most important thing to consider is where we will go from here.
At an international meeting on the Vienna's Convention and the Montreal Protocol for the Protection of the Ozone Layer, held in November 2009, the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) gave Tunisia a Prize in consideration for the country's efforts in protecting the Ozone Layer.
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