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The Federal Government has said that any attempt at stopping gas flaring through legislation now will lead to very unpleasant circumstances, which the nation can hardly cope with.
ENVIRONMENTAL Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) has challenged Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) to admit to allegations of polluting the Niger Delta environment and stop shifting blames.
AMURU district has signed a memorandum of understanding with Uganda Wildlife Safari and Uganda Wildlife Authority to hire professional hunters to capture stray wild animals.
Thousands of delegates are this morning gathering in the Danish capital, Copenhagen, for the opening ceremony of the crucial United Nations (UN) Climate Change Summit.
National Environment Standards and Regulatory Agency has said it would take action against any telecommunication firm which embarks on illegal installation of mast without due regard to existing regulations.
Water and Environmental Affairs Minister Buyelwa Sonjica has condemned the recently uncovered illegal dumping of medical waste in Welkom, Free State.
Copenhagen Climate summit, the biggest event the Danish capital has ever hosted, now needs support of individual homes to host house a number of conference participants.
When he started working as a tour guide in Mt Kenya two decades ago, Hiram Munuhe found it fascinating as he took his visitors through the snow on the equator.
Kenya is lobbying for the United Nations Environment Programme in Nairobi to be elevated to the only global body.
The people of Ihioma in Orlu local government area of Imo State have lamented the harm done to their area by erosion, saying if nothing is done quickly, they will be forced to relocate to another place.
TODAY, like every other day of the past few years, humankind will release more than 116-million tons of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Emissions are rising faster now than in any other decade and without new policies our daily emissions will be 140- million tons by 2020.
THIS week's Copenhagen summit on climate change is unlikely to deliver much beyond a broad framework agreement, leaving many details to be worked out in the build-up to the expiration of the Kyoto Protocol in 2012.
Today 56 newspapers in 44 countries take the unprecedented step of speaking with one voice through a common editorial. We do so because humanity faces a profound emergency.
SCEPTICISM is a trait that should be encouraged in any society that claims to be free, open and democratic. This is especially so in the scientific sphere, where the credibility of research findings hinges on the transparency of the process and free availability of relevant data, so that methods can be peer reviewed and results replicated.
Southern Africa is in agreement with the rest of the continent on a common position for the upcoming climate change negotiations in Copenhagen.
A corporate-driven initiative aimed at restoring the Mau started Friday with the planting of 5,000 seedlings at Naisoya in Maasai Mau.
Former President Daniel Moi is a man of deep compassion. For more than a year, he has been restraining himself even as his hormones have raged for action over the Mau Forest controversy.
Jaramogi Oginga Odinga has always been my political father. I miss his courage, patriotism, his love for the wretched of Kenya and his consistent resistance against oppression, exploitation and foreign domination.
Residents in the rural village of Philadelphia, near Durbanville, are once again bracing themselves for an infestation of flies as the summer weather arrives.
REHASH old fears and update them with the alarmist topic du jour (of the day) - that is the recipe for the United Nations Population Fund's (UNFPA) annual report this Wednesday dedicated to climate change. Its State of World Population 2009 correctly points out that poor women will be the most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change.
Considering that 80 percent of West African countries live near the coastline, the increasing erosion of said coast poses critical problems for the homes and livelihoods of locals. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has launched a project to reverse diminishment of the coast due to climate change, called the Adaptation to Climate Change in Coastal Zones ...
When the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) released its Palm Oil Buyers' Scorecard on 28 October 2009, a stark situation was brought to the world's attention: despite the availability of safe, earth-friendly palm oil options, Western companies were not meeting commitments to purchase those alternatives.
The connection between environmental changes and human health is too often overlooked, but should not be undermined as it stands to take form in various, and potentially ruinous manners, according to Dr. Samuel Myers, an instructor at Harvard Medical School and a research fellow at the Harvard University Center for the Environment.
ENVIRONMENT and Natural Resources Minister Francis Nhema yesterday urged all Zimbabweans to continually plant trees and not only wait to plant trees on the annual tree planting day.
Rwanda annually loses forty tonnes of fertile top soil per hectare due to erosion, the coordinator of Project d' Appui a' La Reforestation (PAREF) has revealed.
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