Wangari Maathai, a human rights advocate and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate ... to a DNA-damaging toxin from gut bacteria may contribute to the global rise in younger populations. Researchers identified a ...

And, after some years, it became clear that no one could tell the difference between the women’s young forests and forests being planted by the highly educated foresters. Maathai’s work ...

With the sad news of Wangari Maathai's death on Sunday night (25 September), we celebrate the life and philosophy of an extraordinary woman via a series of video clips, below. Maathai, a veteran ...

My name is Wangari Maathai. In my country of Kenya ... The trees that we started planting when I was younger… I got to see them grow, and become mature trees. Now life is so much better for ...

Wangari Maathai recognized the link between peace ... Leymah Gbowee, who was just 17 when the civil war began, became a young mother and trained as a social worker and trauma counselor, motivating ...

This documentary provides a window into the extraordinary life of activist and Nobel Laureate Wangari Maathai a Kenyan woman who has worked to regain ownership of her country and its fate after ...

In 2004, Kenyan Wangari Maathai became the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize. She was an environmentalist and human rights activist who founded the Green Belt Movement in the 1970s.

Kenya: The late Nobel Peace Laureate Wangari Maathai has been honoured posthumously in Peru for her efforts in conserving the environment. Peru has named its city park after Prof Maathai for her ...

Wangari Maathai was the first African woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her work on environmentalism and social justice. She was born in 1940 into a Kenya still under British colonial rule ...