By SATURDAY NATION CorrespondentPosted Friday, April 9 2010 at 21:00 Survey of the Maasai Mau block of the Mau Forest Complex ended on Friday, setting the stage for the third phase of the restoration of the country’s biggest water tower. The chairman of the interim coordinating secretariat, Mr Hassan Noor Hassan, said the evictions would […]
Wild Zebras stand in a container to be loaded onto waiting trucks by Kenya Wildlife Service officers, KWS, at Soysambu conservancy in Nakuru, Kenya for their translocation to Amboseli national park on February 10, 2010. Kenyan game rangers began rounding up thousands of zebras to be moved to a reserve where starving lions have been […]
By PETER KERApril 5, 2010 THEY are enthusiastic young farmers with an eye on the latest technology and a belief that Victoria must modernise its farming sector to survive. They want to help feed the masses for decades to come, and hope one of their four sons – all younger than eight – will one […]
By Staff WritersVientiane (AFP) April 4, 2010 Fisherman Phimmalang Sengphet paddles his boat to the sandy banks of the Mekong River in Laos and inspects his meagre haul. “We can’t even catch enough to feed ourselves,” he says wearily. The 38-year-old was able to net more than 10 kilos (22 pounds) of fish a day […]
By Ambika Ahuja, Editing by Alan Raybould and Ron PopeskiHUA HIN, ThailandMon Apr 5, 2010 8:41am EDT (Reuters) – China on Monday denied that its dams were reducing water levels on the Mekong River and blamed problems along the river on unusually dry weather, but it also offered to share more data with its neighbors. […]
By Staff WritersBeijing (UPI) Mar 30, 2009 In an attempt to bring relief to drought-stricken southwestern China, the government fired cannons and launched rockets loaded with cloud-seeding chemicals throughout the weekend. Results ranged from drizzle to moderate rain to downpours in 11 cities and prefectures, yet meteorologists said the induced rain would have a limited […]
13:22, April 04, 2010Source:Xinhua About 300,000 tonnes of thermal coals were needed in central China’s Hubei Province as lingering drought in the upstream region has cut the hydropower, local officials said Sunday. About 30 percent of Hubei’s electricity capacity comes from hydropower generation, but the drought in southwest China has lowered the water level in […]
By Monica Konija, National Science Foundationlivescience.com – Sat Apr 3, 9:02 am ET Global warming is a hot topic, and it’s causing concern for scientists studying winter annuals in the Sonoran Desert. While desert winters have become warmer and drier over the years, climate changes have pushed the arrival of winter rains later in the […]
In Kenya’s Nakuru Rift Valley, the lakes are drying up: Nakuru, Naivasha, Baringo, Solai, Bogoria, Turkana, and Elementaita are rapidly wasting away, leaving cracked lakebed deserts. In only six years, Lake Naivasha has receded to the point that fishermen have dug long channels in the lakebed to reach the now-distant shore. 2002 2009 Technorati […]
By WANJIRU MACHARIAPosted Tuesday, December 8 2009 at 22:00 The short rains that pounded the larger Nakuru District for a few days in August, September and November were greeted with a sigh of relief. For a while, residents and tourists marvelled at the replenished Lake Elementaita that had dried up due to the long drought, […]
