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Global economy will lose $23t to land degradation by 2050 – UNCCD

The global economy will lose a whopping $23 trillion by 2050 through land degradation, a review by the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification...

admin - May 10, 2018

Land Degradation

Erosion: Communities want Buhari to declare state of emergency in Anambra

The people of Orumba North and Orumba South in Anambra State have urged President Muhammadu Buhari to declare a state of emergency to the...

admin - April 21, 2018

Land Degradation

Ecosystem degradation, biodiversity loss cause of farmers-herders clash

The President, Global Legislators Organisation for a Balanced Environment (GLOBE), Nigerian Chapter, Sen. Bukar Ibrahim, said ecosystem degradation and biodiversity loss were part of...

admin - April 21, 2018

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Meteorologist urges solution to desertification in the north

The President of Nigerian Meteorological Society (NMetS), Prof. Clement Akosile, said on Thursday, April 19, 2018 that the country needed to aggressively address the...

admin - April 19, 2018

Land Degradation

Group vows to resist proposed prison, cemetery in Ogoniland

The Ogoni Rights Advocates (ORA) is peeved that the Federal Government is contemplating building a massive prison and cemetery in Ogoniland, instead of the...

admin - April 8, 2018

Land Degradation

Ahead rainy season, Akwa Ibom begins flood control intervention

The Akwa Ibom State Commissioner for Environment and Mineral Resources, Dr Iniobong Essien, has said that government has embarked on various flood control intervention...

admin - March 29, 2018

Land Degradation

Worsening worldwide land degradation now critical, says report

Worsening land degradation caused by human activities is undermining the well-being of two fifths of humanity, driving species extinctions and intensifying climate change. It...

admin - March 26, 2018

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Snow turns orange in parts of Europe

About every five years, the usually powdery white snow turns orange in parts of Eastern Europe. That happened again over the weekend, stunning skiers and...

admin - March 26, 2018

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