
Articles by Calvin Rock Odhiambo
Calvin is a passionate writer working as a reporter and fact-checker for Africa Uncensored, an independent media house based in Nairobi, Kenya. Calvin is passionate about environment and social justice stories with a penchant for solutions-oriented developmental journalism.
Calvin started his journalism career in early 2021, working as an intern before his current position. His first story on carbon emissions in the transportation sector in Nairobi, “Saving the planet one EV at a time,” won an African Climate Change and Environmental Reporting Award, organized by the Pan African Climate Justice Alliance. Prior to joining Africa Uncensored, Calvin worked as a volunteer teacher of English and literature in a local high school.
Besides pitching and producing stories, Calvin also produces fact-check articles for Africa Uncensored’s fact-checking website Piga Firimbi, which is Swahili for “Blow the Whistle.” He also co-produces an informative fact-checking podcast called Verified.
During his free time, Calvin enjoys writing fictional short stories, social commentaries and poetry, which he plans to publish someday.


Extreme heat takes a toll on tropical countries’ economies

Up to half of tropical forestland cleared for agriculture isn’t put to use, research shows
Special series
Forest Trackers
- Bolivian national park hit hard by forest fires in 2022, satellite data show
- Deforestation ‘out of control’ in reserve in Brazil’s cattle capital
- In Brazil’s Amazon, land grabbers scramble to claim disputed Indigenous reserve
- Gold mining invades remote protected area in Ecuador

Oceans
- Critics allege EU’s ‘toxic collusion’ with fishing lobbies is damaging Indian Ocean tuna
- Study: Paying fishers to ease off sharks and rays is cost-effective conservation
- Good fisheries management, if enforced, can help sharks and rays recover
- An El Niño is forecast for 2023. How much coral will bleach this time?

Amazon Conservation
- Indigenous women record age-old knowledge of bees in Colombia’s Amazon
- Forest modeling misses the water for the carbon: Q&A with Antonio Nobre & Anastassia Makarieva
- Electricity day and night: Solar power is changing isolated Amazon communities
- Illegal mines and “floating towns” on the Puré River leave uncontacted Indigenous peoples at risk

Land rights and extractives
- Tense neighbors: Chinese quarry in Cameroon takes a toll on locals
- FOIA lawsuit suggests Indonesian nickel miners lack environmental licenses
- Shadows of oil in Peru: Shipibo people denounce damage, contamination left by company
- In Liberia, a gold boom leads to unregulated mining and ailing rivers

Endangered Environmentalists
- ‘We lost the biggest ally’: Nelly Marubo on her friend Bruno Pereira’s legacy
- Murders of 2 Pataxó leaders prompt Ministry of Indigenous Peoples to launch crisis office
- Worries and whispers in Vietnam’s NGO community after activist’s sentencing
- Scientists call for end to violence against Amazon communities, environmental defenders

Indonesia's Forest Guardians
- Pioneer agroforester Ermi, 73, rolls back the years in Indonesia’s Gorontalo
- After 20 years and thousands of trees planted, Kalimantan’s veteran forester persists
- Aziil Anwar, Indonesian coral-based mangrove grower, dies at 64
- A utopia of clean air and wet peat amid Sumatra’s forest fire ‘hell’

Conservation Effectiveness
- Biodiversity, human rights safeguards crucial to nature-based solutions: Critics
- Protecting canids from planet-wide threats offers ecological opportunities
- Mangrove forest loss is slowing toward a halt, new report shows
- ‘South Asia needs its own tiger plan’: Q&A with Nepal’s Maheshwar Dhakal

Southeast Asian infrastructure
- Tunnel collapse at dam project in orangutan habitat claims yet another life
- Sulawesi nickel plant coats nearby homes in toxic dust
- Indonesia’s grand EV plans hinge on a ‘green’ industrial park that likely isn’t
- Java communities rally as clock ticks on cleanup of ‘world’s dirtiest river’
