Monthly Archives: March, 2015

Cover

Agony, ill-health as residents lack drinking water in Niger Delta

The Niger Delta region in Nigeria has a vast area of its land mass covered by water but the inhabitants barely have access to...

admin - March 22, 2015

Climate Change

Lekan Fadina: Road to Paris 2015 (12)

It clear to us that COP 21 is not a tea party and it is expected that all parties will put on the table national...

admin - March 22, 2015

Cover

Forests described as essential in tackling climate change

The sustainable management and conservation of forests must be considered in the design and implementation of the new sustainable development goals and the new...

admin - March 19, 2015

Climate Change

Paris 2015: Governments get negotiating text for climate agreement

The secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has communicated the negotiating text for a new climate change agreement to...

admin - March 19, 2015

Health

Drug regimen may shorten, improve tuberculosis treatment

A new tuberculosis (TB) drug regimen designed to improve options for TB therapy eliminated more bacteria from sputum than standard therapy and did so...

admin - March 19, 2015

Health

How Americans perceive global warming’s health consequences

The George Mason University's Centre for Climate Change Communication has released a new report, Global Warming's Six Americas, October 2014: Perceptions of the Health...

admin - March 19, 2015

Conservation

EU accused of patronising goods from illegally deforested land

Almost a quarter of the world trade in agricultural goods produced on land illegally cleared of forest is destined for the EU; the Netherlands, Italy,...

admin - March 19, 2015

Climate Change