21.05.2024
Enhancing Electricity Access in Rural Lesotho
By: Jimi Bäck, Tuomas Haapala, Jennifer Schurr, Dorottya Füleki, Yu Ching Sun & Simbarashe Nhokovedzo Lesotho, known as the Kingdom in the Sky because its entire territory lies over 1000…
03.11.2023
Unravelling the challenge of data scarcity in Flood Risk Mapping
Fig: People walk along a flooded road along the bank of overflowing Bagmati river following heavy rains, in Kathmandu, Nepal August 8, 2023. Photo: Navesh Chitrakar, REUTERS 2023. Floods are…
12.09.2023
When your values clash with your work: How to teach something that does not convince you?
Daniel Chrisendo In the interest of full disclosure, I want to be clear about my perspective on this issue. I do not eat animals. I believe that all animals must…
06.04.2023
A digital map for soil fertility assessment in West Africa
Are you aware that according to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) 95% of our food is produced directly or indirectly from our soils. In other words, soils are…
16.03.2023
Climate-driven crop migration – an ongoing process
The effects of climate change can be seen in many different aspects of our lives. One of the most concerning effects is the far-reaching impact it has on agriculture. When…
02.11.2022
Expert Elicitation Explained by an Expert
(by: Daniel Chrisendo) There are so many important things in the world that are still unknown. How is the future of the earth? Is a bigger pandemic of infectious diseases…
17.08.2022
Water networks, but not the way you think
When we think of water networks, we usually imagine either pipes underground or rivers flowing and connecting through the landscape. But there are also social networks, which not only refer…
30.06.2022
Match words with deeds: Curbing water risk with the Sustainable Development Goal 6 index
17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were proposed to tackle social, economic, and environmental challenges in the realm of sustainable development, since the 2030 Agenda was unanimously endorsed worldwide in 2015…
27.05.2022
The Devil is in the Details: Opportunities and Harms of Water Hyacinth around Lake Victoria
The pungent smell of fish got more intense as our bus got closer to Dunga, a fishing village on the shore of Kenya’s Lake Victoria. The sun was almost straight…
02.05.2022
A simple solution for disaster water treatment
Our new study, Solar disinfection – An appropriate water treatment method to inactivate faecal bacteria in cold climates 1, was recently published in Science of the Total Environment. In short,…