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Family planning linked with improved environmental outcomes

A collaborative international assessment of hundreds of peer-reviewed scientific papers published since 2005 finds significant, albeit indirect, evidence that access to voluntary family planning...

DHL delivers Czech-born rhino Eliska to Tanzania

To ensure maximum comfort and minimal travel time, DHL provided a dedicated Boeing 757-200 freighter to transport female eastern black rhino Eliska from Czech...

Smart City Lagos: Necessity of the time (2)

In my previous article published in EnviroNews Nigeria edition of Sunday, June 26, 2016, I touched on the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed between...

Save Great Barrier Reef, Australian leader, Turnbull, told

A group of civil society leaders from India to the USA on Wednesday 29 June, 2016 called in an open letter to the Australian Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull, to...

Lagos urged to shift stand on water privatisation

Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) has asked the Speaker of Lagos State House of Assembly, Obasa Mudashiru, to side with Lagos...

Why biosafety law should be repealed, GMOs permits overturned, by activists

Activists Nnimmo Bassey (Director, Health of Mother Earth Foundation – HOMEF), Mariann Bassey-Orovwuje (Food Sovereignty Manager/Coordinator ERA/FoEN and FoE International) and Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour (Convener...

Greenpeace demands retailer’s total commitment to renewable energy

Greenpeace on Tuesday made a formal marriage proposal to Pick n Pay, calling on the retailer to commit to a 100% renewable energy future, and...

Carbon emissions from 2015 fires in Southeast Asia greatest since 1997

A new study of the forest and peatland fires that burned across maritime Southeast Asia in 2015 has found that the carbon emissions were the largest...

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ICCDI enlightens cub journalists, activists on climate justice

The International Climate Change Development Initiative (ICCDI) on Wednesday, July 2, 2025, organised a two-day workshop tagged “Media for...
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We developed action plan to reverse decline of vultures in Nigeria – Director of Forestry

In order to address the decline in the population of vultures in Nigeria, the Federal Ministry of Environment in...

Shell pledges support for Nigeria’s ambitions for energy sufficiency

Shell says it will continue to explore opportunities to invest in Nigeria as the country aims to achieve energy...

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ICCDI enlightens cub journalists, activists on climate justice

The International Climate Change Development Initiative (ICCDI) on Wednesday,...
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