An advisory council that will bring ownership in the protection of wildlife and ecosystem was formed yesterday.

Investors around the world no longer see renewable energy as a risky or low-yield investment sector, a recent report by the United Nations on private sector climate finance has revealed.

Nakuru county has formed a team to deal with the expected El Niño rains.

The government's failure to transform the agriculture sector into a viable business is to blame for food insecurity in Kenya, say experts.

Climate change and regional development projects are threatening the health and livelihood of indigenous peoples in the Turkana region of northwest Kenya, Human Rights Watch said in a report released.

The high prevalence of sickle haemoglobin in Africa shows that malaria has been a major force for human evolutionary selection, but surprisingly few other polymorphisms have been proven to confer resistance to malaria in large epidemiological studies. To address this problem, we conducted a multi-centre genome-wide association study (GWAS) of life-threatening Plasmodium falciparum infection (severe malaria) in over 11,000 African children, with replication data in a further 14,000 individuals.

Establishment of community wildlife conservancies is the best solution for reducing elephant poaching in Northern Kenya, says a new study released on Monday.

A community based conservation group in Tharaka-Nithi County has raised the red flag over continuous logging of indigenous trees in the Mt Kenya Forest.

The government has launched its first ever tuberculosis survey, as statistics show that 90,000 cases of were recorded in the country last year alone.

A Nation Newsplex review of health data shows that the rate of death from cancer in Kenya is far outpacing population growth and may double in the next 11 years.

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