Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai, the first African woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize, sits down with Jeffrey Brown about her ecology work and social activism. Thirty years ago, Wangari Maathai ...

Nowhere in Wangari Maathai’s official biography as founder of the Green Belt Movement is there mention of a song written to honor her environmental work. But there is one. In late October of 2006, ...

BOB ABERNETHY, anchor: We have a profile today of the first African woman to win the Nobel Prize for peace. Wangari Maathai is a conservationist whose movement has caused the planting of 30 million ...

We speak with the Wanjira Maathai, daughter of Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai who was recently awarded the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize. Wanjira is the international liaison for the world-renowned ...

A new overview of research on global warming has found climate change is happening faster and on a broader scale than scientists projected in 2007. The new findings come in a week where the issue of ...

Wangari Maathai, the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, died of cancer Sunday at the age of 71. Maathai inspired a generation of women and founded Kenya's Green Belt Movement, which ...

When Wangari Maathai celebrated something important — such as becoming the first African woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize — she would plant a tree. "That's the way I do things," she told NPR's ...

Last month, ovarian cancer claimed another dynamic woman, 71 year-old social activist, ecologist and Nobel Laureate, Wangari Maathai. Born in 1940 in Nyeri, Kenya, Maathai attended school during a ...

http://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/kcur/local-kcur-988641.mp3 KANSAS CITY, MO – The first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize died earlier ...

Wangari Maathai did not seek to excuse or to forget the legacies of colonialism. But as the decades passed she grew increasingly frustrated with the enduring factionalism and opportunism among the ...