I can’t get enough of this richly colored soil map of Kenya. So I made some wallpapers. I’ve always had a soft spot for maps. Geologic ones, especially. If you share my interest in colorful, ...

Nairobi, Kenya (13 January 2009)—Responding to sub-Saharan Africa's soil health crisis, the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) announced today an ambitious new effort to produce the ...

On a bright September afternoon, around 1,000 Maasai gathered at a school in southern Kenya for an unusual community meeting. As people filed in, a group of women decked out in thick bundles of white ...

Nairobi — Africa's more than 600 lakes could turn into swamps due to environmental degradation. Scientists attending the 11th World's Lake Conference held in Nairobi last week said destruction of ...

Kenya: The first atlas of Africa that collects vital information on African soils has been launched. The Soil Atlas of Africa was launched Tuesday in Nakuru by the Principal Secretary, Ministry of ...

Mr Oyoo Awuondo, a farmer at a maize farm in Bondo. The area has been experiencing drought for over one month now. The Government has embarked on a drive to map Kenyan soils to establish their ...

If you would like to learn more about the IAEA’s work, sign up for our weekly updates containing our most important news, multimedia and more. Despite poor soil fertility and water scarcity, thousands ...

Over 95 percent of smallholder farms in Kenya show severe depletion of essential soil nutrients - nitrogen, phosphorous and potassium. Moreover, Kenya's agricultural soils have dangerously low soil ...

Coral reefs, like tree rings, are natural archives of climate change. But oceanic corals also provide a faithful account of how people make use of land through history, says Stanford University ...