Nobel Winner Maathai Sounds Alarm Over Planet
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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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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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The Government&#39;s chief scientist has warned the world must act fast to combat global warming or face the dire consequences. Professor Sir David King said climate change cannot be avoided and that &quot;action is affordable, inaction is not&quot;.
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WHEN Wangari Maathai got word she had won the Nobel Peace Prize, she was busy with the work that earned her the prestigious award - campaigning to protect Kenya&#39;s forests and distributing food to hungry constituents suffering from drought.
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Human rights and environmental activists have hailed the award of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize to Wangari Maathai of Kenya as fitting recognition of the growing role of civil society
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Ecologist Wangari Maathai urges global action to save the planet as she picks up her 2004 Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo.
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Former government science chief accuses activists of jeopardising the fight against global warming
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OSLO - Kenyan ecologist Wangari Maathai, who yesterday received the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize at a ceremony in Oslo, said protecting the environment was vital to promote peace and democracy.
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Kenya&#39;s Nobel Peace Prize winner, Wangari Maathai, on Monday urged wealthy nations to ratify the Kyoto protocol on climate change to ease the burden of pollution on poor countries.
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Crying with delight, Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai planted a tree to celebrate winning the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday and vowed to use the money
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Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai  became the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize on  Friday, honored for her work planting tens of millions of trees  to save the environment. The award marks a new theme in  interpreting the 1895 will of Sweden's Alfred Nobel, who  founded the 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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In response to growing concerns over the planet's future, scientists are proposing some radical ideas to combat global warming.
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In the second part of a special report on Kenya&#39;s first Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai, religious writer Joseph Ngala recounts her environmental crusade through the Green Belt Movement and how a tree-planting campaign turned into a bitter
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"There are now two million Africans on retroviral drugs and that is pretty astonishing"  Former Vice President Al Gore and U2 front man Bono offered measured praise Thursday for efforts in tackling climate change and global poverty, but warned the World Economic Forum that conditions were not improving as much as they could.At an early-morning session that drew several hundred attendees, many clutching cups of coffee or tea to stave off sleep, Gore warned that the world climate crisis was worsening.'We could take the whole session talking just about the new scientific evidence of the last few weeks and months,' said Gore, who shared last year's Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to fight climate change, adding that the 'climate crisis is significantly worse and unfolding more rapidly.' Read more
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Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai dismissed critics on Thursday who say ecology has too little to do with peace to merit the award.
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Nobel Peace Prize laureate says we need to devote global resources to education to end poverty.