The Kenya Meteorological Department (Kenya Met) has announced that Kenya is entering a more challenging climate period characterized by rising temperatures, unpredictable rainfall, and more frequent ...
ST. LOUIS – Research published in Regional Environmental Change has shown that as climate zones shift toward hotter and drier conditions, ecological diversity will decline, posing a major threat to ...
Over the last two decades, economic losses from extreme weather (such as the damage caused by floods, mudslides and drought) has amounted to trillions of dollars. In parts of Kenya and particularly in ...
LAARE, Kenya – Jacob Murungi and his wife don't sleep much. Instead, they spend their nights in the local forest high in the mountains of central Kenya collecting water — from the trees. "I'm out here ...
After months of intense drought conditions, Kenya was inundated by rain late last week, triggering severe flooding that killed more than 40 people. In the country’s capital city, Nairobi, a month’s ...
At sunrise in Kenya's arid north, the search for water begins long before the heat sets in, as communities in Turkana, Wajir, Marsabit, Garissa, Mandera and Tana River walk increasingly longer ...
John O’Loughlin, College Professor of Distinction in Geography and Fellow, Institute of Behavioral Science (IBS), received a National Science Foundation grant in August 2024 for a study of climate ...
NAIROBI, April 5 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When a water pan was built in a grazing reserve in northern Kenya in the 1980s, the central government hailed the project - which it had funded - as a ...
NAIROBI, November 17, 2023 — Kenya remains vulnerable to frequent climatic shocks that pose significant economic risk. Without adaptation measures, the impact from climate change could not only ...
Across Kenya, wetlands are vanishing at an alarming pace. Where papyrus once filtered water and buffered floods, farmland, settlements, and infrastructure now dominate. As these wetlands shrink, one ...
Over the last two decades, economic losses from extreme weather (such as the damage caused by floods, mudslides and drought) has amounted to trillions of dollars. In parts of Kenya and particularly in ...