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Monthly Archives: June, 2016

Controversial Peruvian amazon palm plantation up for sale

The Melka group has unveiled plans to sell off controversial oil palm plantations in the Peruvian amazon. Public auctions will be held in Lima,...

Solar aircraft completes Atlantic Ocean crossing

Solar Impulse, a zero-fuel aircraft powered entirely by the sun, made history last Thursday morning by completing its crossing of the Atlantic Ocean. It...

Smart City Lagos: Necessity of the time

Once again, Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State is blazing the trail. Recent report in Environews Nigeria including other local Nigerian daily newspapers gave...

South Pole’s CO2 levels highest in 4 million years

The Earth passed another unfortunate milestone on May 23 when carbon dioxide (CO2) surpassed 400 parts per million (ppm) at the South Pole for...

Paris emerges Global Earth Hour Capital 2016 winner

Paris is this year’s Global Earth Hour Capital. WWF’s Earth Hour City Challenge recognises the “City of Light” as a role model for climate...

UN demands empathetic approach to global drug problem

Around five per cent of the adult population, or nearly 250 million people between the ages of 15 and 64, used at least one...

Images: Solar brightens insurgency-hit villages in Adamawa

Characterised by limited access to modern energy services with majority of the population relying on the traditional solid fuels (biomass) to meet their cooking...

UNDP, ECN light up Adamawa insurgency-hit communities with solar energy

Two rural communities in Hong Local Government Area of Adamawa State in Northeast Nigeria are effectively recovering from the ravages of insurgency, thanks to...

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COP27: World climate ministers converge on Copenhagen

World climate ministers and envoys converged on Copenhagen, Demark on Monday, March 20, 2023, to convene a two-day high-level...
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Kuwait Oil Company declares state of emergency over oil leak

A state of emergency was declared by Kuwait Oil Company (KOC), a subsidiary of state-owned Kuwait Petroleum Corp, following...

IPCC Report: Guterres launches plan to ‘super-charge climate efforts’

At the launching of the Synthesis Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, in Interlaken, Switzerland, on Monday,...

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COP27: World climate ministers converge on Copenhagen

World climate ministers and envoys converged on Copenhagen, Demark...

Kuwait Oil Company declares state of emergency over oil leak

A state of emergency was declared by Kuwait Oil...