In 2022, when William Ruto was elected president of Kenya, he pledged that his government would plant 15 billion trees by ...

Her initiative, named “One Girl, One Tree”, is built on the simple idea that hope grows when people take responsibility for ...

With a gate of thick forest securing the perimeter of the campus, it was fitting that Wangari Maathai, Ph.D. – whose tree-planting concept earned her the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize – delivered the keynote ...

The national bid to raise the treecover in the country has attracted an unlikely but powerful boost from a six-year-old girlfrom Kirinyaga county.MariaWanjiru, a Grade 1 pupill at StJoseph Murinduko ...

President Uhuru Kenyatta’s recent announcement of a new national tree-planting drive was welcome news, demonstrating the Government’s commitment to reversing the country’s worrying levels of ...

A section of people who participated in planting 20, 000 indigenous tree seedlings at Mt Kenya forest in Kithoka, Meru. [Phares Mutembei, Standard] A number of agencies have come up with an initiative ...

NAIROBI, KENYA - MAY 10: Residents of Dagoreti Constituency take part in tree planting at Ndurarua Primary School on May 10, 2024 in the Dagoretti area of Nairobi, Kenya. Kenyans today from Dagoretti ...

Kenya’s race toplant billions of trees is a vital response to climate change and deforestation.Yet, in this crucial effort, we risk overlooking a silent crisis: thedisappearance of our unique ...

Residents living around the Ruai Sewer Plant are calling on the government to take urgent action to curb methane gas emissions from the facility, citing serious health and environmental ...

NYERI, Kenya (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - In an effort to reverse tree losses in the Nyeri Forest, an environmental initiative has turned to an unusual barter system, offering chickens, goats or ...