Building cities for a better future

BY EPHREM ANDARGACHEW According to the World Bank, today, some 55 percent of the world’s population with the equivalent of 4.2 billion inhabitants live in cities. This trend is expected to continue.... Read more »

Dilla University opens botanical garden to nurture Gedeo forest protection tradition

BY DARGIE KAHSAY Gedeo Zone of Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples Regional State is among the densely populated areas in Ethiopia. The landscape of the zone is also highly vulnerable to land... Read more »

Desertification, drought and Ethiopia’s mitigation, adaptation efforts

 BY DARGIE KAHSAY Due to a decrease in forest coverage and increase in land degradation, drought and desertification are expanding and widening across the globe. Due to recurrent droughts, agricultural developments are... Read more »

Urban forestry to make cities more livable

BY STAFF REPORTER It was about five years ago that for the first time in history, more than 50 percent of the world’s population now lives in towns and cities, according to... Read more »

The urgent need to curb the impacts of climate change on migration

 BY STAFF REPORTER Ever since human society existed on earth people have been migrating from place to place due to many reasons good or bad. For many years, people used to leave... Read more »

Terrosist TPLF’s destroying infrastructure

BY GIRMACHEW GASHAW For over a decade, Ethiopia has invested billions of dollars in infrastructure such as hydro-electric dams, railways, roads as well as industrial parks in an ambitious bid to transform... Read more »

Electron beam for wastewater treatment in developing countries

Recently, China has inaugurated Asia’s first demonstration facility for medical wastewater treatment using electron beam (EB) technology, according to a report from International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). “This is the first pilot-scale... Read more »

The IPCC report and Africa, developing countries expectation from COP26 session

BY DARGIE KAHSAY This week, on monday, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), United Nation’s body for assessing the science related to climate change, report on climate change reported that the... Read more »

Current ecological conditions and desert locust outbreak in the Horn

BY DARGIE KAHSAY During the past two years, Eastern Africa particularly the Horn of African countries has been hit by Desert Locust swarm which affected crops, grazing lands and other vegetables. The... Read more »

Ethiopia’s agro ecology and sunflower seed production

 Sunflower is one of the most important oilseeds in Ethiopia. The country has enormous potential for its production. Sunflower is widely adaptable with high yield than major oilseeds in the country. Recently,... Read more »