By James Odongo AT 36, he appears worn out and twice his age. Sunrise comes when he has already made several turns in the garden yet the labour force from his 18 children is not enough to produce enough food for his expanding family. It is pathetic but Barnabas Okipi, a peasant in Soroti, symbolises […]
By Mark Agutu and George Sayagie 11 November 2009 Nairobi — The flow of illegal settlers out of Mau Forest started on Wednesday, a day after the government deployed security officers ready to evict them. The settlers, frightened by the show of force and a history of brutal evictions, appealed to the government to give […]
Nairobi — The government will start evicting millions of squatters in Mau Forest any time from Wednesday. Hundreds of security officers have been sent to South Western Mau, the first part of the 400,000 hectare forest to be cleared of settlers. The government had given the settlers a deadline of Tuesday to leave peacefully. […]
By NATHANIAL GRONEWOLD of GreenwirePublished: November 9, 2009 First of a four-part series. PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — A hard rain can be deadly here. A family of four was reported killed late last month when rushing stormwater loosened soil under their hillside house and brought the structure down on them. The denuded slopes around this city […]
By PAUL BIBBY, URBAN AFFAIRSNovember 7, 2009 THE State Government must consider curbing population growth in western Sydney because there will not be enough water to sustain agriculture, recreation and environmental flows in the region, scientists say. More than 600,000 extra residents will live in western Sydney by 2031, according to the State Government’s Metropolitan […]
Environmental Justice Foundation report says 10% of the global population is at risk of forced displacement due to climate change By John Vidal in Barcelona, guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 3 November 2009 00.05 GMT Global warming will force up to 150 million “climate refugees” to move to other countries in the next 40 years, a new report […]
The Mau Complex forms the largest closed-canopy forest ecosystem of Kenya, as large as the forests of Mt. Kenya and the Aberdare combined. It is the single most important water catchment in Rift Valley and western Kenya. Through the ecological services provided by its forests, the Mau Complex is a natural asset of national importance […]
By ROBERT F. WORTHPublished: October 31, 2009 JAHILIYA, Yemen — More than half of this country’s scarce water is used to feed an addiction. Even as drought kills off Yemen’s crops, farmers in villages like this one are turning increasingly to a thirsty plant called qat, the leaves of which are chewed every day by […]
Shanghai (AFP) Oct 31, 2009 – China on Saturday opens a new bridge over the Yangtze that will pave the way for rapid development of the country’s “last virgin island,” Chongming — now just an hour’s drive from booming Shanghai. With a surface area 50 percent bigger than Singapore, the island has captured the imagination […]
Since the animals were first listed as endangered, the human population of Florida has more than tripled, and efforts to help the Florida’s state animal recover have had limited success By The Editors One of more than 20 subspecies of cougar and native to the southeastern United States, the Florida Panther is most certainly still […]
