Stories by: Isabella Nyagaka
How Kenya’s TVET Sector Drove Climate Financing at COP30
20 Nov, 2025 06:41 PM
Kenya’s TVET sector is transforming climate initiatives into long-term, bankable projects by scaling renewable energy, expanding climate-smart training, and aligning efforts with national climate commitments.
Kenya’s TVET sector is transforming climate initiatives into long-term, bankable projects by scaling renewable energy, expanding climate-smart training, and aligning efforts with national climate commitments.
From Prescription to Pollution: How Our Health Habits Harm Nature
19 Nov, 2025 04:14 PM
Pharmaceutical pollution is a hidden global crisis. Drugs leaking into rivers, soils, and food chains harm wildlife, disrupt ecosystems, and accelerate antimicrobial resistance, threatening millions of lives.
Pharmaceutical pollution is a hidden global crisis. Drugs leaking into rivers, soils, and food chains harm wildlife, disrupt ecosystems, and accelerate antimicrobial resistance, threatening millions of lives.
Heat, Hunger Expose Climate Crisis as Health Emergency
15 Nov, 2025 03:08 PM
The climate crisis is a global health emergency. Heat, famine, pollution, and fragile health systems threaten billions, as each degree of warming fuels more illness, deaths, and inequality.
The climate crisis is a global health emergency. Heat, famine, pollution, and fragile health systems threaten billions, as each degree of warming fuels more illness, deaths, and inequality.
Solving Poverty Is the Smartest Climate Strategy Yet
12 Nov, 2025 06:46 PM
Poverty and climate change are not separate crises they are deeply linked. This article explores how poverty-driven survival strategies harm the environment and how sustainable development can reverse the cycle.
Poverty and climate change are not separate crises they are deeply linked. This article explores how poverty-driven survival strategies harm the environment and how sustainable development can reverse the cycle.
Europe Confronts Pollinator Crisis as Bees and Butterflies Vanish
10 Nov, 2025 05:00 PM
Bees and butterflies are declining fast across Europe. Their loss threatens food crops, wildflowers, and the balance of entire ecosystems.
Bees and butterflies are declining fast across Europe. Their loss threatens food crops, wildflowers, and the balance of entire ecosystems.
Africa: How Experts, Communities Shape the Climate Finance Agenda
10 Nov, 2025 03:28 PM
Climate finance in Africa must prioritize local solutions and community led innovation to build resilience and meet urgent climate challenges.
Climate finance in Africa must prioritize local solutions and community led innovation to build resilience and meet urgent climate challenges.
Kenya’s Geothermal Plant Fuels Climate-Smart Agriculture
08 Nov, 2025 01:00 PM
Kenya’s $800M Olkaria fertiliser plant marks a bold step in climate-smart agriculture, using geothermal energy to reduce emissions and boost food security.
Kenya’s $800M Olkaria fertiliser plant marks a bold step in climate-smart agriculture, using geothermal energy to reduce emissions and boost food security.
Ruto’s Forest Gamble Betrays Kenya’s Climate Legacy
05 Nov, 2025 12:39 PM
Kenya’s lifting of a six-year logging ban aims to revive the timber industry and create jobs, but critics warn it may threaten forest conservation and climate commitments.
Kenya’s lifting of a six-year logging ban aims to revive the timber industry and create jobs, but critics warn it may threaten forest conservation and climate commitments.
Kenya's Landslides Reveal Urgent Climate Crisis Response Gap
04 Nov, 2025 12:29 PM
Mudslides and floods devastate Kenya’s Rift Valley, prompting urgent calls for climate resilience and government action.
Mudslides and floods devastate Kenya’s Rift Valley, prompting urgent calls for climate resilience and government action.
How Kenya’s Methane Cuts Help Fight Global Warming
01 Nov, 2025 11:27 AM
Tackling methane emissions gives Kenya a real chance to make meaningful progress in the fight against global warming. Through cooperation between the government, scientists, and local communities, the country can lead by example .
Tackling methane emissions gives Kenya a real chance to make meaningful progress in the fight against global warming. Through cooperation between the government, scientists, and local communities, the country can lead by example .
Feeding Kenya Shouldn’t Mean Starving the Soil
25 Oct, 2025 12:56 PM
Fertilizer replenishes key nutrients like nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium, which crops extract from the soil each season. For instance, one hectare of maize can absorb more than 40 kilograms of nitrogen and potassium annually. By using fertilizer, far
Fertilizer replenishes key nutrients like nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium, which crops extract from the soil each season. For instance, one hectare of maize can absorb more than 40 kilograms of nitrogen and potassium annually. By using fertilizer, far
How a Mango Tree Taught Me to Love the Environment
10 Oct, 2025 01:00 PM
October 10 marks World Mazingira Day, a time when Kenyans unite to acknowledge and care for the environment through tree planting and eco friendly practices.
October 10 marks World Mazingira Day, a time when Kenyans unite to acknowledge and care for the environment through tree planting and eco friendly practices.
World Habitat Day: What Happens When the Rocks Disappear?
08 Oct, 2025 11:28 AM
Imagine yourself standing on a rocky hillside in the midday sun. The air ripples with heat, and a whiff of dust drifts on the breeze. Out of the blue, a bright orange head peeps out from behind a stone. The agama nods, watchful and proud, as if defending
Imagine yourself standing on a rocky hillside in the midday sun. The air ripples with heat, and a whiff of dust drifts on the breeze. Out of the blue, a bright orange head peeps out from behind a stone. The agama nods, watchful and proud, as if defending
What Every Tourist Must Know About Kenya’s New Pledge
26 Sep, 2025 07:10 PM
By encouraging mindful interaction with nature, the government seeks to ensure wildlife preservation for generations to come and strengthen public awareness of sustainable tourism practices.
By encouraging mindful interaction with nature, the government seeks to ensure wildlife preservation for generations to come and strengthen public awareness of sustainable tourism practices.
TBT 2015: When Spiritual Leadership Shaped Global Policy
25 Sep, 2025 01:00 PM
By mobilizing communities and calling for a shared sense of human duty, spiritual leaders like Pope Francis demonstrate that meaningful climate action often goes beyond convectional political strategies.
By mobilizing communities and calling for a shared sense of human duty, spiritual leaders like Pope Francis demonstrate that meaningful climate action often goes beyond convectional political strategies.
How Broken Bottles Tell Stories of Environmental Neglect
20 Sep, 2025 02:52 PM
Glass waste contaminates soil and water, creating a heave carbon boost but through recycling and creative reuse like Max Macharia's art, pollution can be transformed .
Glass waste contaminates soil and water, creating a heave carbon boost but through recycling and creative reuse like Max Macharia's art, pollution can be transformed .
