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Human Settlement

Climate crisis: Cities unite to tackle deadly extreme heat, transform urban spaces

A new global coalition of cities has pledged urgent, coordinated action to tackle one of the most dangerous impacts of the climate crisis: extreme...
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Climate Change

Initiative launches in Nigeria to tackle growing threat from extreme heat

TECA Heat Action Wave (THAW), a new initiative to address Nigeria's escalating extreme heat crisis, was launched on Wednesday, August 27, 2025, by BFA...
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Climate Change

Extreme heat linked to over 1,300 deaths in Portugal in 20 days

The months of July and August 2025 in Portugal were marked by several warnings of high temperatures that coincided with a significant increase in...
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Climate Change

Orientation agency issues advisory for Akwa Ibom residents on extreme heat

The National Orientation Agency (NOA) in Akwa Ibom has issued a public health advisory to residents of the state, urging them to protect themselves...
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Climate-driven extreme heat may make parts of Earth too hot for humans

Limiting global warming to less than 2°C will potentially save billions from long-duration exposure to heat which humans cannot physiologically tolerate for sustained periods,...
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460m children at risk of extreme heat in South Asia – UNICEF

In South Asia, 460 million or 75 per cent of children are at risk every year due to extreme heat, according to the UN...
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Climate Change

Americans are becoming more worried about extreme heat – Study

Extreme heat is harming people around the world. So far in 2023, heat waves across three continents in the Northern Hemisphere have already broken records, made many...
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Climate Change

Extreme heat, temperatures increasingly likely in UK – Climate experts

Experts have said extreme heat and temperatures of more than 40 degrees centigrade were becoming increasingly likely in the UK due to climate change...
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Pollution

Cross River Assembly passes open defecation prohibition bill, Lagos apprehends five offenders

The Cross River State House of Assembly has passed a bill prohibiting open defecation. The bill aims to outlaw open...
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Human Settlement

Lagos launches online system for building permit

Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State has launched an electronic system that will simplify the process of obtaining physical...
Conservation

Nigeria committed to sustainability of biosphere reserves, ecological research – FRIN DG

Director-General, Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria (FRIN), Prof. Zacharia Yaduma, says Nigeria is strengthening policy and legal frameworks to...

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Pollution

Cross River Assembly passes open defecation prohibition bill, Lagos apprehends five offenders

The Cross River State House of Assembly has passed...
Human Settlement

Lagos launches online system for building permit

Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State has launched an...