Kenyan winner of the Nobel peace prize for environmental efforts to help the poorest
Poverty matters blog
Farewell Wangari Maathai, you were a global inspiration – and my heroine
Joseph Kabiru: She would talk of complex environmental issues with a hearty laugh and a deep understanding of their impact on ordinary lives
Wangari Maathai - in pictures
Environment blog
Wangari Maathai, the woman I knew
Wangari Maathai, Nobel peace prize winner, dies at 71
March 2011
Top 100 women: activists and campaigners
Wangari Maathai
The Kenyan environmental and political activist who won a Nobel Peace prize for her work with the Green Belt Movement
December 2009
Cif green
'In recent years we have seen forests disappearing'
Green visions video: Wangari Maathai in Copenhagen: Forests are under threat from logging, encroachment and human settlement. We must reach an ambitious and legally binding deal
October 2009
2000 to 2009: reviews of the decade
Q&A: Wangari Maathai
'We have seen an upsurge of awareness in citizens and leaders of both rich and poor countries, and a great desire to manage the environment better'
May 2009
Saturday interview
'We know what to do: why don't we do it?'
Nobel laureate Wangari Maathai says African women will suffer most from climate change and intends to help them
November 2008
The US has truly overcome. And the world is joining in
Wangari Maathai in Nairobi
Wangari Maathai: This moment of pure greatness will prove an inspiration not just for Africa's young people, but for our leaders too
October 2008
A winning partnership
Wangari Maathai
Wangari Maathai: Fifty years ago, access to higher education in the new emerging African nations was severely limited – the Kennedy Airlift transformed that
June 2008
This much I know
This much I know
Wangari Maathai, environmentalist and Nobel Peace Prize winner, 68, Kenya
February 2008
Kenya can't solve it alone
Wangari Maathai
Wangari Maathai: International help to end the crisis is not meddling but a moral duty, and our leaders must embrace it
January 2008
Time to show greatness
Wangari Maathai
Wangari Maathai: Kenya's politicians must take the lead in bringing an end to violence. If not, they risk a terrible legacy
June 2007
Books blog
Haycast 08: Tony Juniper and Wangari Maathai
We talk climate change action with John Harris, people power with Tony Juniper and Wangari Maathai, and a youthful perspective with Michael Morpurgo. Plus Daniel Abse and Owen Sheers.
February 2007
Planting the future
Wangari Maathai's environmental activism in Kenya has earned her a Nobel peace prize - and a number of powerful enemies. Stuart Jeffries meets her.
December 2006
Rise up and walk
Wangari Maathai
Wangari Maathai: African leaders must govern and serve for the benefit of the people, not themselves.
