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The area around Kenya's Lake Naivasha is known colloquially as the flower bed of Africa. The cut flowers industry generates 5% of Kenya's GDP – and causes extensive pollution. Fertilizers and pesticides from its fields drain directly into the lake’s waters. However, now the flower companies have come under strict regulation. And things change to the better at Lake Naivasha.

How much microplastic can you find in our oceans? The kids from Ocean College checked from Amsterdam to Tenerife and what they found was sobering.

The small vietnamese village Hoa Binh is hit by heavy storms every year. They now adapt to the situation and plant trees.

Training schools for orangutans form part of a project by the Frankfurt Zoological Society on the Indonesian island of Sumatra. Orangutans bred in captivity are prepared for life in the wild and then released into the Bukit Tigapuluh National Park.