A group of women in Kenya rebelled against trading sex for a fisherman's catch to sell. They got their own boats, had success ...

Nurdles - the building block of most of the plastic items we use daily - are microplastics that can destroy marine ecosystems and affect our health, and tens of thousands of them were spilt along the ...

Thiong’o was admired worldwide, including by authors John Updike and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and by former President Barack Obama.

The competition celebrates the camera’s ability to capture “both the fragility and strength of communities facing ...

A quest to solve that quandary is now in full swing on Santa Barbara’s sandiest stretch of shoreline, as The Barbara Beach ...

East African lawmakers are considering legislation that could drastically reduce the amount of plastic used in the region. Leaders from the East African Legislative Assembly met last month with ...

Kenya is not immune ... also suffers. Tourists avoid beaches littered with plastic. Nurdles are hard to clean; they blend with sand and persist for decades. Volunteers are already responding.

To that end, the company has organized plastic collection drives to remove bottles and other material from the city’s beaches. It encourages people ... about two-thirds of all foreign investment in ...

The U.N. Environment Assembly (UNEA) unanimously voted Wednesday, March 2, 2022 in Nairobi, Kenya to start to create a legally binding global treaty to address plastic pollution in the world's ...

On the Lamu island, off Kenya's east coast ... Lamu is contending with mounds of plastic waste - some washed up on its beaches, others genrated by its residents. "We started collecting plastics ...

Kenya on World Environment Day barred all single-use plastics such as water bottles and straws from its national parks, beaches, forests and other protected areas. Monster problem: A Greenpeace ...

Jeremy Muchilwa: I am a 16-year-old from Kisumu, Kenya, and a co-founder of ... Fish populations have declined, and beaches are now covered in plastic. Lake Victoria is crucial to the ecosystem ...