Farmers stir clean cooking
Women and children in Malawi keep dying from smoky fumes of an everyday chore as over nine in every 10...
Environment
Waning forests up in smoke
alawi is racing against time to save fast-vanishing trees, with half of its forest cover gone up in smoke due...
Making Zomba green again
Zomba at the foot of Malawi’s second-largest mountain is alternatively known as the green city, but the greenness is waning...
Kalibu unveils school forestry contest
Kalibu Academy in Blantyre has launched a win-a-tree competition to accelerate the restoration of woodlots in both public and private...
‘Energy shift key to Africa’s future’
New evidence shows interlinked policies to accelerate transition to sustainable energy could attract new investment and grow Africa’s economy by...
When choked rivers hit back
Malawi is sitting on a time bomb as rivers become dumpsites. This is common in townships such as the populous...
Artists rescue polluted Mudi River
CHARLES PENSULOStaff Writer Concerns about Mudi River, which passes through Blantyre, have fallen on deaf ears. Pollution from the industries...
Students join Mudi clean-up
The foul smell from Mudi River personifies the brunt city residents bear as people on the move, households and businesses...
Communal zeal to save forests
The bare hills of Kunthembwe vividly spoke of decades of plunder and the community easily resolved to keep hands off...
Questions over CoP26 climate finance goals
Early this month, President Lazarus Chakwera announced least developed countries’ demands at CoP26 in an uncompromising mood. “Fulfil your pledge,”...
DHL supports Zalewa cleanliness
Logistics firm DHL International (Malawi) and communities around Zalewa Trading Centre in Neno on Saturday stepped forward to clean the...
Blantyre embraces recycling
Waste Advisers and Blantyre City Council (BCC) have installed separation bins in Blantyre Main Market for easy sorting of refuse...
Turtles tackle snail fever
Lake Malawi plays home to almost 1 000 fish species and other living things, including rare turtles secretly poached for...
Solving Zomba’s floods, drowning problems
Once upon a time, Zomba used to be a green town, but not anymore as trees have been cut down...
Tapping shared benefits of Songwe
For decades, the ever-changing course of the Songwe River was a cause for emotive border disputes between Malawi and Tanzania....
Pangolin trafficking on the rise
Malawi has detected a steep surge in pangolin trafficking since 2017 when Parliament passed strict wildlife laws to protect endangered...
No giant poached at Majete
In the 1980s, Majete Wildlife Reserve lost its rhinos and elephants to poachers looking for their horns. However, African Parks,...
Propagating clean energy concept
Mary Liwonde, 52, from Kandoje Village in the area of Traditional Authority (T/A) Symon in Neno, is worried about continued...
Mango trees burn as forests wane
In Mulanje West, we saw people felling mango trees one by one to burn bricks. According to locals, the rush...
Urban poor’s sanitation crisis
Two months ago, torrents that led to floods battered homes and latrines to the ground in Salisbury Township in Mzuzu....
