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29,000 Children Dead Due to East African Famine in Past Three Months (Video)

10:58 am in africa, Food & Health, global climate change, natural disasters, poverty by TreeHugger

The drought and accompanying famine in East Africa continues to get worse: Three more regions of Somalia have been declared famine zones--defined as places where at least 20% of households face severe shortages and when more than 2 people in 10,000 die daily from ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Kenyan Refugee Camp For Victims of Record-Breaking Drought Now As Big As Kansas City

10:51 am in africa, global climate change, global warming effects, natural disasters, Science & Technology by TreeHugger

dadaab refugee camp photo photo: Oxfam East Africa/CC BY 2.0 Some updates on the ongoing situation in the Horn of Africa, where thousands of people are being forced to flee fromrecord-breaking drought and, in certain places, outright famine--all of which is, at least in part, made worse by our changing climate. According to Germany's Africa polic...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Six Gorillas Orphaned by Poachers Get Airlifted Home

6:05 pm in africa, endangered species, Travel & Nature by TreeHugger

young mountain gorilla photo Photo: heatherlyone / cc In their few short years of life, six young mountain gorillas from the Congo have experienced humanity at both its worst and at its best. When these threatened animals were just infants, poachers killed their parents and smuggled them across the border into Rwanda, likely to be sold as pets on the illegal wildlife market, or killed for the bushmeat trade. But thanks to a collaborative effort between the two nations and conservation organizations, the endangered gorillas were rescued from the grip...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Human-Powered Drill Strikes Water in Tanzania, Offers Hope for Cheaper Wells (Video)

10:35 am in africa, concepts & prototypes, Design & Architecture, drinking water, water crisis by TreeHugger

human-powered drill image image via YouTube video screengrab When it comes to drilling new wells for water, the cost can be prohibitive as heavy machinery needs to be brought in to do the digging. However, a team of students from Brigham Young University came up with a human-powered solution that can dig wells in villages inexpensively. ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Epic Drought Along Horn of Africa Mapped Out

10:10 am in africa, drinking water, Science & Technology, Travel & Nature, water crisis by TreeHugger

somalia drought photo Photo by Oxfam East Africa via Flickr CC An epic drought is taking place on the Horn of Africa. As Mat reported last week, "Overall at least 10 million people in Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, and Somalia are affected," and things are only getting worse. The Guardian has updated a map illustrating which areas are affected, to what extent, and how many people are being uprooted. Check it out after the jump....Read the full story on TreeHugger

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UN Moves Forward with Ambitious Plan to Clean Up Lake Victoria

10:29 am in africa, Business & Politics, drinking water, united nations by TreeHugger

lake-victoria-boats.jpg Photo: Tony Young under a Creative Commons license. Lake Victoria is vital to the livelihood of about 30 million people in East Africa. But as the region urbanizes, pollution levels in the lake have increased and access to clean water for disadvantaged populations is far from a sure thing. So the governments of Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, with the help of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT) have stepped in with an ambitious initiative to protect local ecosystems and ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Thousands Climate Refugees Per Day Pushing Into Kenya & Ethiopia As Epic Drought Continues

2:04 pm in africa, Business & Politics, global climate change, global warming effects, natural disasters, poverty by TreeHugger

The epic drought conditions in the Horn of Africa and East Africa that first began coming to light about ten days ago continue to intensify, with what are in effect climate refugees streaming into parts of Somalia and Kenya. In northern Kenya, the refugee camp at Daadab has 1,500 new people per day are arriving CARE reports. In the south-eastern part of Ethiopia a new refugee camp at Kobe, just opened a few weeks ago, the third in the regio...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Tunisia Commits $2bn to Sell Solar Power to Europe

10:02 am in africa, economics, renwable energy, solar, solar power by TreeHugger

tunisia solar power photo Image credit: Tom Raftery, used under Creative Commons license. We've already seen evidence that a relatively small amount of land in North Africa and a few other choice locations could power the entire world with solar, which is why Matthew asked previously about what was preventing us from tapping into solar ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Profit for Good: Carbon Credits Bring Clean Water to Rural Kenya

2:32 pm in africa, Business & Politics, carbon emissions, carbon offsets, deforestation, drinking water, kenya by TreeHugger

LifeStraw Family demo photo Photo: Rachel Cernansky I spent part of last month walking from home to home in Kagamega, Kenya, a mostly-rural region known for one of the last remaining tracts of the Congolese forest belt. It is not dissimilar to so much of the developing world, however, in its lack of access to clean water, which is available to about 15 percent of homes in rural areas, according to Francis Odhiambo, Provincial Public Health Officer for the region. I was in Kakamega with the Carbon for Water campaign, run by Vestergaard Frandsen, the company behind the LifeStraw water filter and o...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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U.S.-Made Pesticide Continues to Kill Off Lions in Kenya

1:07 pm in africa, animals, endangered species, kenya, pesticides, Travel & Nature by TreeHugger

lion pesticide photo Image: fortherock via flickr Despite people knowing for years that carbofuran, a pesticide also known as furadan, has been devastating the lion population in Kenya, and despite continued calls to ban the pesticide, it continues to be used—or more accurately, misused, to intentionally poison lions. ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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