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Six months after the Mauritius oil spill, I asked MOL a question.
It’s been more than half a year since a cargo ship ran ashore off Mauritius and 1,000 tonnes of fuel spilled into the beautiful waters of a coral reef. The impacts of this fuel oil on ecosystems and people’s livelihoods are expected to last for decades to come.
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The polluted lakes of Kenya
Water, a source of life, is slowly becoming the source of multiple illnesses and death in Kenya. This has been attributed to the excessive pollution of natural water resources such…
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Kenya’s Poisoned Waters
Kenya’s poisoned waters are flooded with untreated industrial and domestic waste. The relevant institutions should be held accountable to take responsibility and rectify this mess before it’s too late.
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5 Reasons to Save the Okavango Delta
Youth climate activists in the Namibian capital, along with several other environmental and human rights groups, reacted with international calls from all fronts to prevent the impending environmental catastrophe in the Okavango Delta
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Fridays for Future: ReconAfrica’s Kavango oil and gas play is ‘carbon bomb’ with projected 1/6 of world’s remaining CO2 budget
Fridays For Future Windhoek revealed that the oil and gas ‘play’ of Canadian ReconAfrica in the Kavango region of Namibia and Botswana risks destroying global attempts
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Open Letter to NEMA on Lake Victoria Pollution
Our lakes are dying and so are the fish. On the shores of Lake Victoria, piles of dead fish have been washed up
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Op-Ed | Empty Words Will Not Solve Perennial Lake Pollution, NEMA Needs to Take Action
Kenya’s water bodies have for a long time been a sink to excessive nutrients and untreated effluent from industrial and municipal activities. The waste disposed of in the water bodies has been causing a lot of challenges.
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Pollution is destroying Lake Nakuru
Nakuru used to be known as the flamingo town, but not any more. Thousands of flamingos have migrated to other areas. With the rise of population in Nakuru, flora and fauna in Lake Nakuru, a protected wetland and a UNESCO World Heritage Site, may soon begin to perish because of increasing levels of pollution from…
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Op-ed | Africa should aim for a future free of plastics
It is evident that there is a need to shift from the current state of affairs and forge a new pathway. We can’t go back to approaches where false solutions are fronted and promoted.
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5 Points to Understand Congo’s Logging Moratorium
This blog explains what the moratorium on new logging concessions in DRC is, how it was violated and why restoring it is essential for both people and nature.