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Mtwaba bridge which straddles Mtwaba Creek in Mombasa, Kenya. Shimo la Tewa, is a prison located near the creek, with an immense population that is overwhelming the septic drainage system. The prison has been dumping raw sewage into the area for a very long time. With other sides dumping excess substances into the Creek, itContinue reading “Improvement of Kenya’s Mtwaba Creek through Green Technology”

In my opinion, a great way to indulge the human beings in the current issues, for example, climate change is through educating people, this is beautifully accomplished by databases such as open access. Open access is where you can have access to read and be informed about the current research outputs online, usually free ofContinue reading “Metadata, Open access and CCL”

The World Food Programme has posted a recent article in which it estimates that the risk of hunger and malnutrition could increase by up to 20% by 2050. The percentage is huge and shocking and will definitely be disastrous on rural areas who don’t have a stable access to food. Climate change, along with otherContinue reading “Food and Sustainability”

My first blog would post would be on the UN article, land use, and land-use change and forestry. Lands and forests are an important aspect of the global carbon cycle. They contain a large amount of stored carbon and act as carbon stocks. It is estimated that the global forest vegetation stores 283 Gt ofContinue reading “Land, land-use change and forestry”

Tansley’s 1917 paper is a good paper for it’s time. It explains the steps and approaches in his experimental methodology, but not as detailed as the current standards. To cover what’s missing, first we must cover what is present in the paper: Tansley, A. (1917). On Competition Between Galium Saxatile L. (G. Hercynicum Weig.) andContinue reading “The missing pieces of Tansley’s 1917 paper”

Wikipedia is an open access online encyclopedia that anyone can read and edit. This is why teachers don’t like students using it as a citation! However, it is an excellent starting point in research and can help you gain an appreciable understanding of a subject relatively quickly. I have personally used it countless times throughoutContinue reading “Becoming a Wikipedian 2.0”

Invasive species are a major threat to biological diversity all over the world. Pest plants usually pose a huge problem and especially because they usually go undetected for a very long time and hence ends up causing huge ecological damage. The worst invasive pests are normally due to intercontinental introductions and especially due to theContinue reading “Invasive plants”

Image from Smithsonian institute from Wikimedia Commons (Creative Commons) Mary Agnes Chase was best known for being a grass specialist worked as a botanical illustrator. Illustration was one of the few ways that women were able to enter science at that time as a woman. Chase also around the same time was involved in theContinue reading “Mary Agnes Chase”

One film that I considered nominating for the film festival is the biographical, environmental movie “Erin Brockovich”. I really enjoyed this film when I watched it a few years ago because it deals with a lot of issues such as self-esteem, family, personal growth and of course, environmental justice. It begins with the titular characterContinue reading “Erin Brockovich and Environmental Justice”