Heatwaves raise calls for climate finance
Globally, July was the hottest month on record. Africa experienced its hottest night, with the temperature in Adrar, Algeria, not...
Environment
‘They did not die in vain’
At Majete Wildlife Reserve in Chikwawa District, Tizola Moyo has seen game rangers killed by the animals they guard and...
Tree farming for green bucks
Stella Chikhofi’s family of nine in Gochi Village, Ntcheu District, uses firewood and charcoal for cooking. This is the plight...
Recycling Salima trash piles
Abreakdown in waste management affects the environment and human health in cities and towns. Nearly all the urban centres in...
Study exposes Ndirande toxic air
Researchers studying fuel use for cooking in Malawi and Kenya have found residents in informal settlements such as Ndirande, Blantyre...
Energy poverty slows progress
Patricia Mussa of Kambalame Village in Machinga District endures long walks in search of firewood. She climbs Chikala Hills with...
Another side of rising waters
In March, Cyclone Freddy dumped six months’ worth of Malawi’s rainfall amount in six days. The longest-lasting cyclone left streams...
Cyclone survivors get clean cooking
Persons displaced by Cyclone Freddy, now taking shelter at Mzongoza Evacuation Camp in Chikwawa, have waved bye to smoky fireplaces,...
Sacco greens Mudi Dam catchment
Mudi Savings and Credit Cooperative (Sacco) Limitedon Saturday planted 300 trees around Mudi Dam in Blantyre. The cooperative has been...
Zaluso Arts takes on gambling
A local creative platform, Zaluso Arts, is on a mission to curb effects of gambling among youths through music, poetry, photography...
Put a stop to Dzalanyama plunder
It is becoming increasingly difficult for most Lilongwe residents to find water running through their taps despite prepaying for it...
Wesm revives Blantyre wildlife clubs
Blantyre Urban District Education Office and the Wildlife and Environmental Society of Malawi (Wesm) have embarked on reviving primary schools’...
Malawi wins new climate funds
Malawi is among nine countries in the frame to benefit from the Climate Investment Funds (CIF) worth about K350 billion...
William Falls, neglected tourism gold
The sight of splashing cold water catches the eye, bringing the amazing feeling to watch time and time again. William...
Campaigners want more green jobs, climate finance
Environmental campaigners have asked the Commonwealth to champion youth green jobs ahead of the United Nations (UN) Climate Change Conference...
Climate, Energy and Food high at AfDB indaba
Accra the Ghanaian capital is 2022 host to African Development Bank (AfDB) Group annual meetings an important continental event, attracting...
Farmers stir clean cooking
Women and children in Malawi keep dying from smoky fumes of an everyday chore as over nine in every 10...
Waning forests up in smoke
alawi is racing against time to save fast-vanishing trees, with half of its forest cover gone up in smoke due...
Making Zomba green again
Zomba at the foot of Malawi’s second-largest mountain is alternatively known as the green city, but the greenness is waning...
Kalibu unveils school forestry contest
Kalibu Academy in Blantyre has launched a win-a-tree competition to accelerate the restoration of woodlots in both public and private...
