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EU agrees to ban throw-away plastics to limit ocean pollution

Throw-away plastic items such as straws and polystyrene cups will be banned in the European Union by 2021, EU officials agreed on Wednesday, December...

Five bodies with signs of carbon monoxide poisoning found in Russia

Five bodies with signs of carbon monoxide poisoning were discovered in a boiler room of a non-residential building in the town of Domodedovo South...

Mongolians urge UN attention to air pollution in capital

Mongolians are lodging an online petition for the attention of the United Nations regarding the heavy air pollution in Ulan Bator, the country’s capital,...

Government urged to make progress in Ogoni clean-up

The Paramount Ruler in Khana Local Government Area in Rivers State, King Baridam Suanu, has urged the Federal Government to make visible progress in...

DBSA challenged to distance self from Thabametsi coal plant project

A group of activists from different organisations on Tuesday, December 11, 2018 took to the streets outside the Westin Hotel in Cape Town where...

Carbon emissions level from buildings skyrockets – UN

Heat-trapping emissions from buildings and construction appear to have peaked at a global level, the United Nations said on Friday, December 7, 2018. This is...

India’s polluted air claimed 1.2m lives in 2017, says report

India’s toxic air claimed 1.24 million lives in 2017, or 12.5 per cent of total deaths recorded that year, according to a study published...

1 million lives could be saved annually by meeting Paris climate goals- WHO

The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Wednesday, December 5, 2018 said the lives of 1 million people around the world could be saved each...

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Decade of Gas: Nigeria’s gas production surges to 7.5bcf/d, targets 12bcf/d by 2030 – Ubong

The Coordinating Director of the Decade of Gas Secretariat, Mr. Ed Ubong, has disclosed that Nigeria’s gas production rose...
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TechnoServe, Coca-Cola Foundation launch PReP 2.0 to help scale plastic recycling in Nigeria

Building on the success of the first phase of the Plastic Recycling Program in Southern Nigeria (PReP), international nonprofit,...

40 migratory animal species receive new, upgraded protection at close of UN meeting in Brazil

Confronted with stark new evidence that many migratory species are moving closer to extinction, governments at a major UN...

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Decade of Gas: Nigeria’s gas production surges to 7.5bcf/d, targets 12bcf/d by 2030 – Ubong

The Coordinating Director of the Decade of Gas Secretariat,...
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