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Wangari Maathai

Tropical forests and global warming

Environment

Reasons for deforestation differ sharply across the tropics, but widespread clearing of tropical forests contribute to global warming.

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Replanting Kenya

Remembering Wangari Maathai

Out Of Africa

The World

Nobel Women Urge U.S. to Act on Climate Change

A Movement Leader Speaks

Nobel Prize winning environmental leader Wangari Maathai talks about her recent book ?and how colonialism can strip a people of their culture.

The Master Tree-Planter Speaks

Nobel Prize-winning environmental activist and scientist Wangari Maathai of Kenya returns to Living On Earth to talk with host Steve Curwood about some of the forces that shaped her courage and determination.

Whether it was ridicule, the responses of thr

A Movement Leader Speaks

Nobel Prize winning environmental leader Wangari Maathai talks about her recent book– and lays bare the way colonialism can strip a people of their culture.

The Master Tree-Planter Speaks

Nobel Prize-winning environmental activist and scientist Wangari Maathai of Kenya returns to Living On Earth to talk with host Steve Curwood about some of the forces that shaped her courage and determination.

Whether it was ridicule, the responses of thr

Part III: Soldier Planters, River-Keeping Children and Green Belt’s Future