VERY few people in Harare are aware that life in the plush suburb of Mount Pleasant can be very unpleasant at times. One would think the people behind those leafy residential stands are the happiest in Harare.
AS world leaders in Copenhagen deliberate about issues related to climate change, some scholars have argued that there is no evidence that human activities caused global warming.
RESIDENTS in districts neighbouring the Mt. Elgon National Park are to plant over 30,000 trees in a bid to scale down the depletion of the park's forest cover.
MORE than 100 tonnes of illegally harvested African leadwood tree logs - some believed to be older than 1 000 years - were bought for N$30 575 by several bidders at a State auction at Omaruru on Friday.
In its bid to ensure a clean and healthy environment, the Lagos State Government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Konsadem Consortium to develop the 1st modern integrated solid waste management system in Lagos.
Nigeria is set to meet the Jan. 1 2010 deadline for the phasing out of ozone depleting substances, an official of the Ministry of Environment has said.
The National Park Service has challenged communities to engaged in practices that will enhance a safer environment for future generation yet unborn. It noted that the commission's responsibility is in preservation of national resources on behalf the communities where they are operating.
As the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) begins inspection of Niger Delta communities which suffered pollution from oil spills, official sources at the Department of Petroleum Resources have put the total oil spilled in the region over the last two decades at 2.5million barrels.
Shipping companies, already crippled this year by a global trade slump, fear that the Copenhagen climate summit will deliver another hit: a tax on bunker fuel, the thick, sulfuric low-grade oil that powers ships.
I have read the media in the past week with splashes like "Uganda puts case at climate change summit" and columnists saying "What do scientists mean when they talk about global warming?" Specifically, one article with such a message as "it's grassroots activists and not politicians who will influence change" got me thinking about what politicians are doing in Copenhagen.
International Finance Corporation and Standard & Poor's have launched carbon-efficient index for emerging markets that will make it possible to mobilise more than Sh74 billion for compliant companies over the next three years.
A man evicted from Mau Forest has died from a suspected pneumonia attack at Tirigoi camp in Kapkembu area.
A three-year curfew slapped on Mt Elgon District as the government battled to crush the Sabaot Land Defence Force has been lifted.
Kenyans in the diaspora are to set up a wind power plant in the northeastern part of the country at a cost of Sh55 billion. Through their firm, Gitson Energy Ltd, the 300-megawatt facility is set to begin operating in 2011 and to attain full capacity in 2012.
The two biggest polluters in the world, the United States and China have fallen out openly over who should benefit from climate change funds, at the ongoing 15th Conference of the Parties (COP15) to the United Nations Framework Climate Change Convention (UNFCCC) in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Negotiators at the historic United Nations climate change conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, are making good progress in the area of technology.
African countries, including Uganda, are in around-the-clock consultations to hammer out a common position to counter a proposal by the developed countries, led by the host nation Denmark.
The City of Cape Town is threatening legal action against the local and international companies allegedly responsible for the attention-grabbing display projected on the city's famous landmark, Table Mountain, before the World Cup final draw last week.
Few are more aware of the devastating legacy failure will leave than the teams of African negotiators in the Danish capital to hammer out a final position.
The Norwegian government has pledged 1.3 million US dollars to the Mozambican Environment Ministry for a strategic evaluation of the coastal zone.
A child rights lobby group opposed government plans to relocate the Dandora dumpsite.
The Abuja National Mosque, the National Christian Centre, Federal Justice Ministry, Revenue Mobilisation, Allocation and Fiscal Commission's [RMAFC] secretariat as well as the office of Head of the Federal Civil Service are among the places slated to be shut down next week unless they provide additional waste collection receptacles in their premises, Daily Trust learnt in Abuja yesterday.
TOURISM, environmental and entertainment issues are set to be taken to another level following the re-opening of Spillway Pub and Restaurant situated along Lake Chivero tomorrow.
The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has given some government agencies, including the Head of Service, Revenue Mobilisation and Fiscal Allocation Commission (RMFAC)) and others, as well as some embassies in the Central Business District without adequate waste bins an ultimatum of between one and two weeks provide same failure which their premises will be closed down.
Two Nigerian women entrepreneurs, Jife Williams and Adeola Asabia, who set up a facilities management company known as MN-Environmental Services, have become the latest awardees of the Cartier Women's Initiative Award.
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