Striving to alleviate COVID-19’s press on environment through depleting carbon emission

Forest plays an important role in climate regulation and carbon sequestration. Thus, the importance of forests cannot be underestimated. Human beings are dependent on forests for survival due to basic needs range... Read more »

The economics of climate change

As the ‘Climate Risk Profile’ of Ethiopia highlights, “climate change will have key impacts on agriculture, livestock, water and human health in Ethiopia.” As a country whose economy is dependent on the... Read more »

GMO’s friends, not foe

It is seldom superstitiously said that death always comes in threes, same as trouble. The last couple of years have been some of the most difficult in our country’s recent history. In... Read more »

COVID-19 pandemic damage to wildlife and nature

About a month or so ago, just as the panic caused by COVID-19 was hitting mainstream Ethiopian society and government was starting to take measures to clear crowded markets, close down selected... Read more »

The Nexus between COVID-19 and the Environment: Lessons Ethiopia can take

What many thought would be an isolated incidence of a novel Coronavirus in China has took the world by force. The pandemic has wreaked havoc across the entire globe within the past... Read more »

Lockdown isn’t good news for all wildlife – many animals rely on humans for survival

From Venetian canals running clear, to herds of goats roaming around Llandudno, Wales, there have been claims of nature’s comeback since the start of lockdown. But recently, staff at the Meltham Wildlife... Read more »

What does Covid-19 crisis mean for rural development?

The implications and consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic are playing out before us. Much of the news coverage of the to date is both the Global North and the Global South has... Read more »

Impact of the Coronavirus on environment, social life

Planes grounded, events canceled, factories shut down: the coronavirus weighs on the world economy, with the unexpected corollary a fall in greenhouse gas emissions in industrial countries. But this good news for... Read more »

Lessons coronavirus pandemic about tackling climate change

 Every aspect of our lives has been affected by the coronavirus. The global economy has slowed, people have retreated to their homes and thousands have died or become seriously ill. At this... Read more »

Coronavirus vis-à-vis our environment

The COVID-19 pandemic sweeping across the world is a crisis of our own making. That’s the message from infectious disease and environmental health experts, and from those in planetary health – an... Read more »