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Buhari expresses concern over shrinking Lake Chad

President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed worry on the steady shrinking of Lake Chad, saying that the development had adversely affected over 30 million people. Buhari said...

Lake Chad: All talk, no show

Lake Chad is located in the semi-arid region that stretches across the Southern edge of the Sahara Desert. The people are impoverished, and predominantly...

Nigeria inaugurates committee for Lake Chad region recovery, development

The Federal Government of Nigeria on Monday, June 15, 2020 inaugurated a National Steering Committee for the restructured Multi-sectoral Crisis Recovery Project (MCRP) currently...

World Bank recommends sustainable land use management to rehabilitate Lake Chad

The World Bank has urged the use of sustainable land use management as a panacea for the rehabilitation of communities in the north eastern...

Audit of ‘drying up’ River Niger to commence soon

Acting auditor-general for the federation, Florence Anyanwu, has said that environmental audit of the River Niger will begin soon to prevent it from drying...

Shrinking Lake Chad: A wake-up call to address insurgency, violence

Lake Chad basin that happens to be an endorheic lake ( a closed drainage basin that retains water and allows no outflow to other...

Buhari urges rich nations to save disappearing Lake Chad

President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria has urged rich countries to do something urgent to save Lake Chad from extinction, a situation scientists have attributed...

Nations urged to double efforts to save Lake Chad, curb migration

Countries in the Lake Chad region have been enjoined to double efforts to save the dwindling water body that is aggravating environmental degradation and...

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Methane data and transparency continue to improve, but emissions remain far too high

Measures to tackle methane emissions are often very cost-effective and could have brought an extra 100 billion cubic metres...
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US will stop tracking the costs of extreme weather fueled by climate change

The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) will no longer track the cost of climate change-fueled weather disasters,...

African govts urged to reverse privatisations in water, electricity, waste sectors

African governments, especially those of Nigeria, Kenya, and Uganda, have been told to immediately reverse all existing privatisations in...

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Methane data and transparency continue to improve, but emissions remain far too high

Measures to tackle methane emissions are often very cost-effective...

US will stop tracking the costs of extreme weather fueled by climate change

The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) will...
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