Special Project exploring how urbanization destroyed a critical Kampala wetland and why it matters. By Annika McGinnis and Fredrick Mugira

For most El Molo people in Kenya, the past year has been the worst in living memory. Lake Turkana, the water body that they and their ancestors have depended on, is incapable of feeding them. This tiny tribe – with a population of less than 2000 – located on the southwestern shore of Lake Turkana, […]

October 10, 2017 Ministers from Least Developed Countries have committed to ambitious climate action further urging global community to step up support at UN climate change negotiations in Germany next month. Ministers and Heads of Delegation from the Least Developed Countries (LDC) group met in Addis Ababa to discuss the priorities of the LDC group […]

Journalists and water scientists in the Nile basin are rooting for innovative strategies to bridge the gap between them. This, they say, would help to promote transboundary cooperation in the Nile riparian countries, a home to 437 million people. They were speaking in Cairo, Egypt during a workshop on communicating water science for transboundary cooperation […]

May 16, 2017 For hundreds of years, it has been a home to several reptiles, plants, animals, birds and insects — becoming synonymous with hospitality in the wildlife world. In fact, many of Mara River Basin wetland’s plants, animals and insects cannot be found anywhere else in Kenya and Tanzania. But nowadays that synonymous does […]

May 15, 2017 In the middle of Lake Burullus, it is sometimes deafeningly quiet. There are no rustles of the trees in a forest and no highway traffic noise. But this tranquility could soon be a thing of the past. Reason? The lake, located in the Egypt’s Nile Delta, is steadily reducing in size due […]