Maha Khalil By: Maha Khalil If you happened to be on a SCUBA diving or snorkeling trip to the Great Barrier Reef, Australia, in early 2016, or in Hawaii a few months earlier, you would have witnessed a confusing and ghostly scene. Instead of the coral gardens you were expecting with their vibrant pinks, purples, blues, yellows, […]

Geoffrey Kamadi It began as a solution to the plummeting fish populations in Lake Victoria, but the growing popularity of cage fish farming is now posing environmental problems of its own. The practice could be harming the lake’s ecosystem due to the lack of guidelines to regulate it.

Raymond Mhaluka Raymond Mhaluka July 04, 2018 Cholera incidents in Songwe District of Songwe Province were an issue towards the end of last year and well into the beginning of 2018. The cause for these infections was the lack of access to clean water by villagers. However, they were equipped with basic sanitation skills to […]

Raymond Mhaluka Raymond Mhaluka July 04, 2018 Lack of proper sanitation facilities in Songwe District of Songwe Province was cited as one of the reasons that contributed to the spread of cholera in the region, towards the end of last year and well into the beginning of 2018. Raymond Mhaluka of Bomba FM Radio visited […]

Elgined ElSiddig By: Elgined ElSiddig Published with permission from the Energy_93 Blog.It is of no doubt that the world around us is changing, and this change gives rise to new challenges. The most notable challenges facing humans in this era are: the consumption of fossil-fuels energy and emissions of Greenhouse gases (GHG), their deleterious effect on the environment […]

Konjit Teshome The World Heritage Committee that met in Manama, Bahrain recently decided to inscribe Kenya’s Lake Turkana National Parks on the List of World Heritage in Danger, notably because of the impact of a dam on the site. Lake Turkana National Parks is a group of three national parks located around Lake Turkana in […]

Konjit Teshome Amhara region authority of environment, forest and wild animals said that unless measurements can be taken to control the invasive water hyacinth in lake Tana, it might occur in other areas of the country and cause destruction.

Aljazeera We follow a Kenyan farmer for more than four years as he captures the human impact of climate change. Climate change is affecting all regions of the globe, but some places are more vulnerable than others. Parts of East Africa are already seeing the effects of climate instability, with those dependent on farming for […]

Konjit Teshome   It was the area where formerly known for being centre of recreation by traditional and motor boats and giving astonishing landscape to walk all around the edge of the lake. But, now almost nearly 80 percent of the land formerly constituted by water body of the lake is dried and serving as […]

George Onyango is a fisherman at Dunga Beach on Lake Victoria in Kisumu County west of Nairobi Kenya’s capital. He has been fishing for over fifteen years now. At 56, with a family of seven children, he can barely make enough income from fish sales, unlike before. “I used to make a lot of money […]