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Jan 11, 2025 | 
climate.co.ke | Okeyo Victor
Mangroves are among the most productive forest ecosystems in the world. Despite their importance in providing fuel, timber, coastal protection, fishing breeding sites, and pollution amelioration, mangroves in Kenya are endangered. Along with climate change impacts, human activities also contribute to the loss.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
climate.co.ke | Okeyo Victor |Kwabe Victor
Shell’s assertion of carbon neutrality in its liquefied natural gas (LNG) shipments has been scrutinized following revelations of reliance on dubious carbon credits. A joint investigation by Climate Home News and Dialogue Earth has unearthed systemic issues that cast doubt on the validity of these offsets, exposing broader flaws in the carbon market and highlighting Shell’s role in what many are calling a greenwashing scandal.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
climate.co.ke | Kwabe Victor |Okeyo Victor
The triple planetary crisis faced on a global scale has plastics playing an integral role in its disruption that has seen science continue giving predictions and scientists on the forefront of seeking solutions. The plastics pollution crisis is having significant impacts on climate change, increasing biodiversity loss and accelerating pollution entirely.
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Dec 18, 2024 | 
climate.co.ke | Okeyo Victor
Electric vehicles (EVs) are the cornerstone of the global energy transition. However, the conversation about electric vehicles focuses on minimizing emissions from the transport and power sectors, new research spotlights the impact of electric vehicles through the supply chain. Research by Princeton University has demonstrated that refining the critical minerals needed for electric vehicle batteries could create pollution hotspots near manufacturing hubs.
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Dec 16, 2024 | 
climate.co.ke | Okeyo Victor
The shipping industry, responsible for nearly 3% of annual carbon dioxide emissions, is seeking sustainable fuel options to reduce its environmental impact. The International Maritime Organization (IMO) has set an ambitious target of cutting emissions by 50% from 2008 levels by 2050. Among the alternatives being explored, ammonia has emerged as a potential game-changer. However, experts caution that its widespread adoption may introduce new environmental and technical challenges.
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Dec 15, 2024 | 
climate.co.ke | Okeyo Victor
The hearing into nation-states’ legal obligations over climate change wrapped up at the United Nations’ top court in the Hague on Friday, 13. The U.N. General Assembly asked the International Court of Justice to issue an advisory ruling after years of lobbying from small island and vulnerable coastal states, which argue that rising sea levels due to global warming pose an existential threat.
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
climate.co.ke | Okeyo Victor |Kwabe Victor
Plastic pollution has lingered for decades in every ecosystem on the planet, and scientists have been exploring different ways to stem the menace, with insects gaining traction in the process. Despite this, the production and use of plastics around the world have accelerated over the decades, with a chunk of this ending up in the oceans. Research has found that insects can ingest and absorb pure, unrefined microplastics. Could this be a solution?
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
climate.co.ke | Okeyo Victor
Global warming renowned is for the rise in global temperatures with 2024 predicted one of the hottest years on record. Heat-related deaths as a result of the heatwave, according to research by the Columbia Climate School, were recorded with 75% of the casualties among people under 35 — a large percentage of them ages 18 to 35, or the very group that one might expect to be most resistant to heat.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
climate.co.ke | Okeyo Victor
The ocean absorbs about a quarter of our annual carbon dioxide emission, making it the largest natural sink of carbon dioxide. CO2 makes the ocean’s surface acidic. The uptake of carbon due to rapid industrialization has acidification sinking into marine regions as deep as 1500 meters, posing new threats to organisms like sea butterflies, sea snails, and cold-water corals.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
climate.co.ke | Okeyo Victor |Kwabe Victor
Countries negotiating a global treaty to curb plastic pollution at the fifth UN Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC-5) in Busan, South Korea, failed to reach an agreement. With more than 100 nations wanting to cap production while a handful of oil producers were prepared only to target plastic waste, countries remained far apart on the basic scope of a treaty. They could agree only to postpone key decisions and resume talks, dubbed INC 5.2, to a later date.
