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Yearly Archives: 2019

Ogoniland clean-up: Community monitors emerge, concerns over emergency measures

To complement the Ogoni clean-up process, the Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) and its allies at the local, national and international levels, on...

Top 10 animals going extinct because of climate change

NASA scientists have announced that 2018 was the fourth hottest year on Earth, exceeded only by 2017, 2016 and 2015. After 140 years of record-keeping, 18 out of 19 of...

IUCN identifies tree species for climate-resilient reforestation

A study by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has identified tree species native to Indonesia’s Kutai National Park that are resilient to...

Over 100 Indian cities commit to adopt sustainable waste management practices

“Keeping our cities clean by only collecting and disposing wastes is not sufficient. What is required is source-segregation, proper treatment, recycle and reuse of the waste....

Lake Chad Basin Commission budgets 17.67bn CFA for 2019 operations

The Executive Secretary, Lake Chad Basin Commission (LCBC), Amb. Mamman Nuhu, on Friday, February 8, 2019 said a budget of 17.67 billion CFA Francs...

WHO increases support on Lassa fever in W/Africa

The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Sunday, February 10, 2019 said it has increased its efforts to support West African countries in the ongoing...

UK, Europe’s worst offender, ‘illegally’ exports electronic waste to Nigeria, others

A new report has found that Britain is the worst offender in Europe for illegally exporting toxic electronic waste. The report, commissioned by the environmental watchdog Basel Action...

How climate change is hurting Africa’s economy, by experts

Climate change has weakened, and it will continue weakening African economies as countries struggle to counter its impacts, experts attending an event on the sidelines of...

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AU Summit: African leaders urge final 24 states to ratify African Medicines Agency treaty

On the margins of the 39th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the...
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New study identifies sequence of critical thresholds for Antarctic ice basins

The Antarctic ice sheet does not behave as one single tipping element, but as a set of interacting basins...

Segun Adediran: Watchdog and the death row metaphor

The architecture of death row is not built of stone and steel, but of stagnant time. To be ondeath...

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AU Summit: African leaders urge final 24 states to ratify African Medicines Agency treaty

On the margins of the 39th Ordinary Session of...

New study identifies sequence of critical thresholds for Antarctic ice basins

The Antarctic ice sheet does not behave as one...
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