published March 5, 2011 and has No Comments
Lake Victoria. Photo: Lukas Bergstrom / Creative Commons . The rapid growth of invasive water hyacinths has taken a serious toll on Kenya's Lake Victoria, creating inhospitable conditions for the fish local people depend on, while sheltering other unwelcome guests: disease -carrying snails and deadly snakes. But with a little help from a U.S.-based organization, villagers living near the ...
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published January 15, 2011 and has No Comments
Image: whowillwewill.com However the referendum in South Sudan turns out, one thing will not go away quickly: the lack of water in the region. The International Committee of the Red Cross, however, is at work on a project that will mitigate that problem in at least one town, and will hopefully be replicated in other regions if ... Read ...
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published April 19, 2010 and has No Comments
Image credit: SolarAid From the launch of SolarAid through to massive expansion of its promotion of solar in developing countries , there's no doubt that this UK-based charity is changing countless lives. But they are doing more than that—they are providing a model for how development aid should work, and how that aid should be communicated too. The video ...
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published March 28, 2010 and has No Comments
A boy collects water from the Omo River floodplain in Ethiopia. Photo © Alison M. Jones via International Rivers . "The rise and fall of the Omo waters is the heartbeat of the Lower Omo Valley," writes International Rivers -- a heartbeat that the environmental group says the Gibe 3 Dam threatens to stop. The organization, along with other ...
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published December 2, 2009 and has No Comments
photo: Patrick Finnegan via flickr. It's been nearly a year since we first heard about Kenya's largest wind farm in the planning, the 300 MW Lake Turkana Wind Farm , but a newish piece in the Washington Post highlighted by
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Drought Brings New Importance to Kenya's Largest Wind Farm
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published November 2, 2009 and has No Comments
photo: Stig Nygaard via flickr. New research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences calculates for the first time the volume of ice lost from Mount Kilimanjaro's snowfields and the prognosis isn't good. From 1912-2007, the mountain's iconic glaciers have decreased some 85%, with 26% of glacier present in 2000 now gone:... Read the full story ...
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published October 28, 2009 and has No Comments
Camels are "like the bank for the Turkana." Photo by xikita via Flickr. The global economic crisis has shattered many families' financial security as the value of investments plummet and jobs become vulnerable, or nonexistent. But in the rural Turkana district of northwest Kenya, the culprit robbing peoples' bank accounts is climate change.... Read the full story on TreeHugger ...
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published October 23, 2009 and has No Comments
all photos courtesy 350.org The first images from the International Day of Climate Action are coming in from New Zealand via the folks over at 350.org . "Here in Aotearoa, New Zealand, we're ahead of the world timewise, but we are absolutely united with the world on this most incredible of days. Because on this day we are joined ...
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published October 19, 2009 and has No Comments
Last week it was house flies at the Mount Everest base camp , now it's mosquitos and malaria in the highlands around Mount Kenya that are in the spotlight, in this video clip from the UN Environment Programme . It's a short clip, but pu... Read the full story on TreeHugger
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published October 4, 2009 and has No Comments
The "Father Flip Flop" whale-shark sculpture. Photo via Project AWARE . Art made out of recycled materials is always a Treehugger favorite, but it takes on special significance when the work depicts wildlife species--using objects that threaten those very animals, and the environment on which they depend.... Read the full story on TreeHugger
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