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Land Degradation

Brazilian Amazon: Indigenous lands, protected areas are key in slowing deforestation – Study

New research released by the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) in the lead up to international climate talks in Belem, Brazil, finds that designating 63.4 million...

Healthy nature for better food systems: UN awards new World Restoration Flagships

The UN on Wednesday, October 15, 2025, named four new World Restoration Flagships under the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. Recognising global efforts to heal...

Benue Assembly urges government to address ravaging gully erosion

The Benue State House of Assembly has urged the state government to take urgent steps to rescue Adum Community in Otukpa District of Ogbadibo...

UNGA: Minister seeks AfDB’s support on funding Nigeria’s great green wall project

The Minister of Environment, Malam Balarabe Lawal, has solicited the support of the African Development Bank (AfDB) in funding the National Agency for the...

Nigeria reaffirms commitment to Ogoni clean-up

The Minister of Environment, Malam Balarabe Lawal, on Tuesday, September 16, 2025, in Abuja reaffirmed the Federal Government’s commitment to addressing environmental degradation in...

Panama to host UN meeting on desertification, land degradation, drought

Representatives of 196 countries and the European Union will convene in Panama from December 1 to 5, 2025 to review their efforts against desertification,...

Govt targets 1m hectares restoration with ACReSAL project in 10 states

The Federal Government through the Agro-Climatic Resilience in Semi-Arid Landscapes (ACReSAL) Project, has inaugurated a stakeholders’ engagement aimed at restoring one million hectares of...

How to utilise food systems to reverse land degradation – Scientists

In Nature, 21 leading scientists on Wednesday, August 13, 2025, prescribed ways to use food systems to halt and reverse land degradation, underlining that doing...

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OPEC+ to raise oil output in April

The Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and its allies, a group known as OPEC+, on Sunday, March...
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Coalition warns nuclear contamination, rising seas threaten Pacific catastrophe

Representatives from every inhabited continent joined forces on Friday, February 27, 2026, in an unprecedented show of solidarity over...

Water contracts: CAPPA flays Lagos’ secrecy, violation of procedural framework

Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA) has condemned what it described as the opaqueness and significant procedural violations...

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OPEC+ to raise oil output in April

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