climate hazards Stories
It’s important to strengthen impact observation networks across west Africa and enhance air quality monitoring, especially in urban areas, where local...
Africa is at the beginning of its urbanisation journey, the most rapid the world has ever seen. However, it cannot follow the same high-carbon industr...
Forecasters warn of potentially depressed rainfall in upcoming months, particularly in northern counties, further exacerbating food insecurity and com...
Data by the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction shows an estimated three to four million Kenyans are affected annually by natural and human-made dis...
According to Hassan, farmers need not worry about losses since grass is non-perishable and can be stored for extended periods with proper storage faci...
NASA says, 2024 was the warmest year on record, and a combination of accelerating polar ice melt, unusually high ocean temperatures and shifting weath...
The resettlement programme overall is now understood to be part of the government of Rwanda’s approach to climate change adaptation.
As the country geared up to host the Africa Climate Summit in September 2023, the iconic building underwent a massive transformation, one that has sin...
UN has challenged the world’s largest carbon-emitting countries to adopt zero-carbon building energy codes by 2028, with all other nations following s...
Their initiative, which began as a beach clean-up exercise, has now evolved into a full-scale environmental conservation effort aimed at tackling clim...
The Green Belt Movement, founded by the late Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Prof Wangari Maathai, while celebrating Wangari Maathai Day, cast doubt on the...
East and central Africa, where most elephants once resided, underwent serious losses over this period due to ivory poaching.
KFS officials warn that the fire season, driven by high temperatures, low humidity, and strong winds, is expected to last until mid-March.
Authorities suspect that the fires were caused by human activities such as discarded cigarettes, arson and honey harvesting, combined with extremely d...
After U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent confirmed he would not attend, finance ministers from Japan, India and Canada also pulled out.
FAO says the project will focus on six key agricultural value chains: Dairy, poultry, coffee, tea, fruit trees, and African leafy vegetables.
The global economic think tank, Wef, therefore reckons that the continent faces a significant climate financing gap, causing the region to miss out on...
The report warns that the ongoing destruction of forests costs the economy at least three per cent of its gross domestic product annually.
Although the president did not provide a breakdown of the locations and timelines for the tree planting, the figures suggest that Kenyans planted an a...
