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Polio re-emerges in Philippines after almost 20 years

Polio has re-emerged in the Philippines, 19 years after the country was cleared of the highly contagious disease by the World Health Organisation (WHO), health officials...

GMO products we approved safe for consumption – Biosafety agency

Director-General, National Biosafety Management Agency (NBMA), Dr Rufus Ebegba, has assured Nigerians of safe consumption of approved Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) in the country. Ebegba gave the...

Why we’re climate striking for action – Bassey

Nnimmo Bassey, Director, Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF), who joins the Climate March in New York City on Friday, September 20, 2019, attempts...

Scientists release GM mosquitoes in Burkina Faso to fight malaria

Scientists in Burkina Faso have deployed a new weapon in the fight against malaria, and waded into a thorny bioethics debate, by letting loose thousands of...

Trump revokes California’s right to set own car emissions standards

U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday, September 18, 2019 said he is revoking California’s ability to independently set its own car emissions standards, which have been...

Six Nigerian youth activists to attend UN Climate Summit

Six Nigerian youths – Hamzat Lawal, Joy Egbe, Adenike Oladosu, Chiagozie Udeh, Samira Ibrahim and Seyifunmi Adebote – will be attending the first ever UN Youth...

Guterres announces new Climate Action Summit jobs initiative

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday, September18, 2019 announced a new initiative aimed at ensuring that decent job creation and protecting livelihoods are at the...

Roadmap provides 36 solutions to halve GHG emissions by 2030

In advance of the 2019 United Nations Climate Summit in New York City, an international group of experts have published the Exponential Roadmap: the 36 most...

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World Malaria Day: UK supports Nigeria’s fight against malaria with £1bn

United Kingdom has contributed about £1 billion to the global fund against malaria and other diseases in Nigeria for...
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World Malaria Day: Over half of world at risk of mosquito-borne diseases

Scientists on Thursday, April 25, 2024, warned that by the end of the century more than half of the...

China continues to battle flood in Pearl River Basin

China’s Ministry of Water Resources is intensifying precautionary measures against flooding as heavy rain continues to lash southern China. The...

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World Malaria Day: UK supports Nigeria’s fight against malaria with £1bn

United Kingdom has contributed about £1 billion to the...

World Malaria Day: Over half of world at risk of mosquito-borne diseases

Scientists on Thursday, April 25, 2024, warned that by...
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