A Kenyan environmentalist hugged a palm tree for 72 straight hours in Nyeri county to draw attention to the rapid loss of the country’s native forests, many of which face extinction. Truphena ...

Running for miles and miles in the arid, nomadic countryside of Samburu, Kenya’s fig trees have recently been found to possess a hidden and rare talent. While most trees slurp up carbon dioxide from ...

Kenyan officials have declared a special tree-planting holiday to meet their goal of planting 15 billion trees within the next decade. According to BBC News, the Kenyan government has made 150 million ...

Research with smallholder farmers in Kenya shows that tree-planting schemes must account for complex local issues and preferences. Tree planting is central to many countries’ climate mitigation and ...

African nations have grand ambitions to green up landscapes with trees; the Kenyan government, for example, launched an initiative to plant 15 billion trees by 2032. The hope is that new trees could ...

Kenya’s current forest cover currently stands at about 7% but the government wants to increase this to more than 10%. The Kenyan government has announced a surprise public holiday for a nationwide ...

With a gate of thick forest securing the perimeter of the campus, it was fitting that Wangari Maathai, Ph.D. – whose tree-planting concept earned her the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize – delivered the keynote ...

Sarah Carter is an award-winning CBS News producer based in Johannesburg, South Africa. She has been with CBS News since 1997, following freelance work for organizations including The New York Times, ...