Chiromo Library is the Faculty of Science and Technology library. It is about 2 KM from the Nairobi Central Business District off Riverside Drive and near the old Chiromo Mortuary. It has a sitting capacity of 700 and 12 Study carrels for graduate students and researchers. It stocks approximately 100,000 hard copy books and bound journals. In addition, it has access to over 70,000 e-books and 50,000 e-journals. Visit Chiromo Library.
The Department of Earth and Climate Sciences is a fusion of the former departments of Geology and Meteorology, both of which have a very long and rich history since the University of Nairobi was established in 1970 (and Geology was established even earlier, in 1956 when the University of Nairobi was still the Royal Technical College of East Africa), as well as hosts and administers two relatively younger but very vibrant research institutes - the Institute for Climate Change and Adaptation (ICCA, est. 2011) and the Wangari Maathai Institute for Peace and Environmental Studies (WMI, est.