A Tree Grows in Kenya
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No one was more surprised on Friday to hear from the Norwegian Nobel Committee than Wangari Maathai, Kenyaâs assistant minister for the environment.
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By SARAH BRUCE  A NEW species of tree has been discovered on an island off Scotland's West Coast.   Naturalists found the Catacol whitebeam in a remote corner in the north of Arran.
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Kenya has met all economic conditions set by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) which could result in the release of a delayed loan to the east African country, a visiting IMF mission announced here Friday.
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Wangari Maathai started an movement that has planted 30 million trees in Africa and also has campaigned for women's rights.
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In this photo released by the Pronatura Peninsula de Yucatan (PPY) a Bromeliad is seen atached to a branch inside the Calakmul Biosphere Reserve in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico on Feb. 2004.
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Kenya is trying to rid itself of one of  the last vestiges of colonial rule.
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U.S. researchers say they may have discovered the reason for African and South American rainforest similarities, especially involving kapok trees.
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Environmental activist and deputy minister of Kenya, Wangri Maathai, won this year&#39;s Nobel Peace Prize. She is the first African lady to obtain this rare honour.
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A ban on smoking in public places is being enforced in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, for the first time.
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VILLAGERS campaigning to save the trees in thei
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SUKUR, Nigeria  - Visitors to Sukur are warned not to approach a certain ancient baobab tree because, villagers say, it turns people into hermaphrodites.
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Wangari Maathai won the Nobel Peace Prize today for her work as leader of an organization that has planted more than 30 million trees across Africa.
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A playground is to be shipped from County Durham to Africa in a project to improve life in a cluster of villages.   Tree Appeal is a company based at High Etherley, near Bishop Auckland, which helps firms plant trees as part of their environmental policies.
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Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai became the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize Friday for aiding the continent's poor with a campaign to plant millions of trees to slow down deforestation.
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Faced with the growing tide of imported Christmas trees, Mexico has set a goal of growing its own. It's not so much a nationalistic stance as a tacit acknowledgment that the Christmas tree, once alien to Mexican tradition, is here to stay.
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T wo days after Christmas, Kenyans will vote in a general election that will shape more than just the future of Kenya itself. A stable Kenya helps hold together a rough neighbourhood that includes Sudan and Somalia. A prosperous, globalised Kenya, where the spread of mobile telephones has spawned a new generation of entrepreneurs, should be an example for the region. Kenya is where a million tourists a year form their impressions of the continent of Africa. Hence my concern for the future of my country, from which I chose to exile myself three years ago.
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Kenyaâs countryside seems to be settling into a state of lawlessness that is more reminiscent of the checkpoint culture in Somalia or Darfur, Sudan.