Nobel Winner Maathai Sounds Alarm Over Planet
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Saying the planet is at risk from human  activity, Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai urged  democratic reforms and an end to corporate greed when she  collected the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday.
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PARIS, Nov 20 (IPS) - A group of scientists, including several Nobel  laureates in medicine, are urging international institutions and  governments in the industrialised world to adopt a radical policy  against chemical pollution in order to protect human health.
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Kenya's Wangari Maathai urged a fight against deforestation on Wednesday on her arrival in Oslo to collect the Nobel Peace Prize amid controversy about whether the award has lost its way by embracing environmentalism.
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1000CET-- In a press release, Friends of the Earth International welcomed the news that Dr Wangari Maathai, had
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The Archbishop of Canterbury warns that human greed is threatening the environmental balance of the Earth.
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Wangari Maathai, a Kenyan environmentalist, today became the first African woman to win the Nobel peace prize. Ms Maathai, 64, Kenya&#39;s deputy environment minister, heads the Green Belt movement, a group that
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Latin America and other poor regions of the world will bear the brunt of climate change, a top official from the organization that shared this year's Nobel Peace Prize said Thursday.
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To the beat of African drums, Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai received her Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, telling the audience of royals, celebrities
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The day before had begun typically for Africa&#39;s best known environmentalist. Maathai had joined a long-planned protest by mothers of political prisoners calling for the release of their sons.
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A leading US scientist tells the BBC that the world has already entered a state of dangerous climate change.
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Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai has become the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize for aiding the continent&#39;s poor with a campaign to plant millions of trees to slow down deforestation.
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UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon issues a warning to the world.
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Calling humanity a threat to the planet, Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai urged democratic reform and an end to corporate greed after becoming the first African woman to collect the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday.
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Environmentalists around the world are holding their heads a little higher. Wangari Maathai is being honored for her work in preserving the earth.
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world to plant trees at Easter as a symbol of renewal and to protect the planet. planted,&quot; Maathai told Reuters Television in Oslo, where she received the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize.
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OSLO, Dec 10 (IPS) - Kenyan ecologist Wangari Maathai, 64, is the first  African woman to take the Nobel, and never before has an  environmental cause been honoured by the Nobel committee since  the prize was first awarded in 1901.
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(AGI) - Rome, Italy, Oct 8 -Rome&#39;s mayor, Walter Veltroni, said that the awarding of the peace Nobel to Wangaari Maathai, founder of the Green Belt Movement, was an important sign.