The East African Journal of Environment and Natural Resources estimated in a 2023 study that the invasion of water hyacinth ...

Hyacinths are a great garden plant because they are not only beautiful and fragrant, attracting all kinds of pollinators, but are also one of those perennials that keep coming back year after year.

(Here are more spring-flowering bulbs to plant now.) Hyacinths (Hyacinthus orientalis) flower on a single, upright stalk in ...

As company founder Joseph Nguthiru explains, the idea requires a shift in semantics, as Kenya has banned single-use plastics, ...

No one's sure how the South American water hyacinth invaded Africa's Lake Victoria but there's little doubt as to the damages it has caused. In 1989, the weed was spotted in the lake and seven ...

The plant was first sighted on Kenya's popular Lake Naivasha about 10 years ago. Now, it has become a large, glossy mat that ...

The water hyacinth is native to South America and was reportedly introduced to Kenya in the 1980s “by tourists who brought it as an ornamental plant,” said Gordon Ocholla, an environmental ...

NAIVASHA, Kenya — For someone who fishes for a living, nothing says a bad day like spending over 18 hours on a lake and taking home nothing. Recently, a group of fishermen were said to be ...

The water hyacinth is native to South America and was reportedly introduced to Kenya in the 1980s “by tourists who brought it as an ornamental plant,” said Gordon Ocholla, an environmental ...

Fisherman Simon Macharia harvests hyacinth at Lake Naivasha in Nakuru county, Kenya's Rift Valley, Friday, Dec. 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Andrew Kasuku) ...