Wangari Maathai, 71, the Nobel Peace Prize winner who sparked an international movement for women’s rights and environmental preservation by teaching poor Kenyan women to plant trees ...

When Wangari Maathai celebrated something important — such as becoming the first African woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize — she would plant a tree. "That's the way I do things," she told ...

World leaders have paid tribute to Nobel Laureate Wangari Maathai who passed away while having treatment for ovarian cancer on Monday. Archbishop Desmond Tutu praised Maathai as a true ...

NAIROBI - Dr. Wangari Maathai, the Kenyan environmentalist who began a movement to reforest her country by paying poor women a few shillings to plant trees and who went on to become the first ...

Wangari Maathai wears many hats, including author, professor, environmental and human rights activist and former member of the Kenyan Parliamentarian. Maathai was on-hand at a recent U.N. General ...

Lisa Merton and Alan Dater, the producers of Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai, attended the Nobel laureate and environmental activist’s funeral in Kenya in October. Merton offered ...

Born in Nyeri, Kenya in 1940, Wangari Maathai — born Wangari Muta — loved playing by the stream near her home, where she would go daily to fetch water. The sight of frog eggs floating in the ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Wangari Maathai, the first African woman recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, died after a long struggle with cancer, the environmental organization she founded said Monday.

Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai, the first African woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize, sits down with Jeffrey Brown about her ecology work and social activism. Thirty years ago, Wangari ...

If the leaders of America's environmental movement need a shot of adrenaline, they would do well to sit down with Wangari Maathai, winner of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize. Maathai is the now ...

Wangari Maathai did not seek to excuse or to forget the legacies of colonialism. But as the decades passed she grew increasingly frustrated with the enduring factionalism and opportunism among the ...