Caution needs to be exercised in developing African food production to avoid long-term social and environmental harm, according to an ecologist credited with averting mass hunger on the continent.

The municipal administrator of Tombwa, João Guerra, appealed Thursday to citizens to keep their township quarters clean, with the aim of contributing to the improvement of the environment of the city.

The National Environment Management Authority (Nema) has approved a controversial plan to grow sugarcane on an important coastal wetland - the Tana River Delta.

The Ministry of Finance has cautioned the Forestry Development Authority (FDA) against qualifying logging companies that are in huge tax arrears with government.

World Environment Day (WED) is marked on June 5, annually in more than a hundred countries in the world. It is one of the most popular days on the United Nations calendar and environmentalists across the world.

The case against the Deputy Director in the Ministry of Environment and Tourism, Sackey Namugongo, gained momentum yesterday in the Katutura Regional Court with five State witnesses giving their testimonies.

Oranjemund is hanging on a thread of an environmental impact assessment on two projects for land-based diamond mining that Namdeb hopes would infuse life and extend the lifespan of the Oranjemund land mining area.

The Kwara State Commissioner for Environment and Tourism, Alhaji Ahmed Makana, has warned residents of the state, especially the state capital, against indiscriminate dumping of refuse inside all the links to the Asa river to allow free flow of water.

GOVERNMENT has come up with a new policy measure to speed up the re-introduction of biofuels to cushion the country against the escalating oil prices, save foreign currency and adhere to cleaner fuels, Energy and Power Development Minister Cde Mike Nyambuya has said.

In order to protect the rich ecosystem of Cross River State , the State government is to set up an institutional mechanism to facilitate compliance monitoring and enforcement of environmental standards and regulations.

THE Polythene Waste Wise Campaign that has been running in Kampala for two months should be rolled out to other parts of the country. Paul Kyeyune, the Uganda Revenue Authority assistant commissioner for public and corporate affairs, has said.

Polythene bags (buveera) and other plastics are a major cause of environmental degradation.

Plastics, especially polythene (buveera) are one of the leading environment hazards in Uganda. Although the Government banned the use of polythene bags of 30 microns and below, many people have continued using them. Millions of used buveera are visible in every locality, dangerously disposed of alongside other garbage. Joshua Kato talked to local leaders on how they handle buveera.

Many households use polythene bags and plastics in their day-to-day lives, especially for shopping and storage of items. Sadly, few of them know the dangers that the plastics pose to their lives, especially if disposed off wrongly. Most people dispose of plastic items by burning them, which is dangerous.

A new report by the Global e-Sustainability Initiative, supported by Unep, and The Climate Group estimates that ICT could cut greenhouse gas emissions by 15 per cent globally by 2020.

It has been mentioned often, more frequently in recent times,that China's average GDP growth from 1980 to 2000 of 9.6% should in reality be 6.8%; if "green" GDP were factored into the equation. Not to be unfair to China, this phenomenon is not unique to it alone; other fast-growing countries would end up with less percentage points if such a calculation were applied. But still, China, as ...

The Government on Tuesday strongly defended the integrated sugar project in Tana River and blamed sugar importers for the current controversy.

Earlier this month, a private pilot reported to a Johannesburg radio station that while flying over the Kruger National Park, in the far eastern reaches of the country, he had spotted the carcasses of several large crocodiles floating in the Olifants River.

African ministers of environment recently launched the Africa: Atlas of Our Changing Environment, which shows a rapidly changing landscape, prominent of which is the disappearance of glaciers on Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania and the Ruwenzori Mountains on the border of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Uganda.

The Government has directed the National Development Corporation to conduct an environmental and social impact assessment studies at the proposed location of a soda ash plant at Lake Natron.

On invitation of the Centre for Tropical Marine Ecology (Zentrum für Marine Tropenökologie (ZMT)) in Bremen, a delegation of the University of Namibia recently paid a visit to the institute, preceded by a visit of scientists and representatives of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research in February this year.

The Ministry of Environment and Tourism will conduct a wildlife auction of rare and high-demand game species from State-owned game parks towards the end of this month.

One of the greatest concerns that mankind has been faced with this century is that of the environment.

Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa'adu Abubakar, has said that climate change constitutes a "great" threat to the nation's food security.

The Government has finally granted permission to the National Development Corporation (NDC) to carry out environmental and social impact assessment studies around the new location of the proposed soda ash plant at Lake Natron.