Rarely do I read any thing about Kibera, as encouraging and elating as this article from The Standard . Here are some excerpts: Having a kitchen garden in the city is a preserve of residents in leafy suburbs. But what previously could only be a fantasy...
Topics: Kibera

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Some, like the British scientist James Lovelock - who formulated the Gaia theory , believe that the World is over populated and over crowded: "It is not simply too much carbon dioxide in the air . . . ," he writes in The Vanishing Face of Gaia..
Topics: Environment

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This just in from WWF : Marine turtles are a globally important species, but the number of turtles has plummeted and some populations are now on the brink of extinction. These gentle creatures of the sea swim great distances and come to land only to...
Topics: Endangered

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I don't think so. I very much hope not so. The latest reports say the oil discoveries in Uganda are unquestionably the largest onshore discovery made in sub-Saharan Africa in at least 20 years, possibly ever . And that one might safely consider...
Topics: Uganda

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A study , commissioned by the World Wide Fund for Nature - WWF, just released gives a frightening, chilling warning: coral reefs would disappear from the Coral Triangle by the end of this century unless effective action is taken on climate change....

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