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This week, Kenyan beekeepers, illegal amber mining, and the kids keeping German beaches clean.
This week, we ask if concrete can create solar power, music can reforest Madagascar and 3D printing can save the rhino.
Sewage treatment keeps Lake Constance clean, but also starves it of phosphate, which is an important nutrient for plants. The result is fewer and smaller fish, so fishermen are having to think again.
With the right policies and investment, eco-entrepreneurs can tackle poverty and climate change at a grassroots level.
Solar panels on roofs are commonplace, but can the sunlight that hits building facades be used to generate power? Researchers at the University of Kassel say "yes".
A biotech team in the US is using a 3D printer to make bioengineered replicas of rhino horn they plan to introduce into the black market to ultimately put poachers out of business.
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Berlin's Orchestra of Change collects money in order to reforest Madagascar, where people are heavily reliant on wood for cooking and building houses.
“We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.” - Native American Proverb
Kenyans are increasingly turning to solar power to meet their daily energy needs.
Bleeding is as much a part of life for women as breathing, and the environmental cost can be high.
A documentary film inspired by An Inconvenient Truth and entitled Nowhere to Run offers a warts and all look at how climate change is impacting livelihoods, the environment, social structures and national security.
The forests and grasslands sweeping down to the Kenyan coast are rich with flowering plants that offer a feast for bees. Local farmers profit from their honey – as well as the crops they pollinate.
We get a taste for Italy's rare 'white gold' truffles, sample some fresh veggies grown under the sea, and ponder purity while sipping on a pint of German beer.
Like something out of a science fiction film, the rainbow appears to create a vast dome-shaped force field in the middle of the landscape. Taken in central Germany, it undoubtedly reveals the force of nature.
Pollinated by moths, jasmine releases its heady aroma only at night. For the women who harvest the organic blooms on Nile Delta plantations, that means a working day that begins after dark.
Based in Kenya's capital Nairobi, Edith Kimani presents environmental issues and solutions from East Africa.
Based in Lagos, Nigeria, Nneota Egbe presents environmental issues and solutions from West Africa.
