The Fluoride Paradox In Kenya

Byline by General Manager, AAR Healthcare Kenya, Elizabeth Wasunna In global health discussions, Kenya’s Rift Valley often emerges as a case study on the hidden risks of fluoride in groundwater. The region’s unique volcanic geology naturally releases fluoride into aquifers, sometimes in concentrations as high as 23.5 milligrams per litre far above the World Health […]

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Standard Bank Hosts 5th Annual Climate Summit

Standard Bank, the biggest bank in Africa by assets, will host the fifth edition of its seminal Climate Summit. The Summit, which will be held in Johannesburg on 9 September, is one of the cornerstones of Standard Bank’s sustainability strategy. This year’s Summit will focus on climate adaptation and resilience under the theme of energy, […]

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Greenhouse Gases and Their Significance for Africa

Africa.com’s Climate Change series is in line with Africa Climate Week taking place from 4-8 September 2023 in Nairobi – Greenhouse gases have become a pivotal topic in the realm of environmental science and climate change. These gases, including carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), and sulfur dioxide (SO2), play a critical role in regulating the Earth’s temperature […]

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Five Ways You Can Be Better For The Environment

There is no avoiding the fact that global warming and climate change is real and it’s happening. According to Nasa, “It is undeniable that human activities have warmed the atmosphere, ocean, and land and that widespread and rapid changes in the atmosphere, ocean, cryosphere, and biosphere have occurred”. The result of this is what we […]

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Bringing Greener Pastures Back Home

Across Africa, agriculture accounts for 80 percent of employment but land degradation is leaving families and young people without food or income security and thus forcing them to search for greener pastures. ...

‘A Turtle is Worth More Alive Than Dead’

On the north-eastern shores of Trinidad and Tobago, on the shoreline of Matura, more than 10,000 leatherback turtles climb the beaches to nest each year. But there the local community is keenly aware of one thing: ‘a turtle alive is worth more than a turtle dead.” It’s a lesson the community learned almost three decades […]

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African Countries And The State Of Their Environments: The Best And The Worst

Corey J. A. Bradshaw, Flinders University and Enrico Di Minin, University of Helsinki Social and economic changes in Africa are being driven by increasing prosperity and heavy foreign investment. Money has been poured into activities such as road building, forestry expansion, livestock intensification and increasing urbanisation. All have increased pressure on the continent’s environment. But […]

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Reverse Engineering For SDGs

When young people from small towns and villages seek higher education they have to usually migrate to big cities leaving their local communities behind. On completion of their degree from the Universities, they generally prefer staying in cities, in search of a good job and a successful career. ...

Is Agribusiness The Problem Or The Solution?

For two centuries, all too many discussions about hunger and resource scarcity has been haunted by the ghost of Parson Thomas Malthus. Malthus warned that rising populations would exhaust resources, especially those needed for food production. Exponential population growth would outstrip food output. ...

Ghana’s Contribution to Plastic Waste Can Be Reduced with the Right Investment

Twelve-year-old Naa Adjeley lives in Glefe, a waterlogged area that is one of the biggest slums along the west coast of Accra, Ghana. The sixth grade student, his parents and three siblings use 30 single-use plastic bags per day for breakfast. When they finish eating the balls of ‘kenkey’, fried mackerel, and pepper sauce, the […]

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