A don, Prof. Folashade Olajuyigbe, has identified biotechnology as panacea to the contemporary issues in coastal environment and achieving the Millennium Sustainable Development Goals (MSDGs).
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Waste, according to a new UN Environment Programme (UNEP) report, must be turned into resource, warning that municipal waste is set to rise by two thirds and its costs to almost double within a generation.
“We used to harvest enough for the year,” Nazir recalls, wiping the sweat from his brow. “But now, the desert is taking everything. We cannot even grow enough to eat, let alone sell.”
The U.S. Acting Assistant Secretary at the Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs (OES), Jennifer Littlejohn says multilateral efforts are critical to tackling the menace of climate change, and global environmental pollution.
The Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet)
has predicted sunny and thundery weather conditions from Wednesday to Thursday across the country.
This is a key finding of a large locally relevant and globally coordinated study by the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB) that includes 48 Indigenous Peoples and local communities across all climate zones on all inhabited continents. The project “Local Indicators of Climate Change Impacts” (LICCI), led by Victoria Reyes-García, ICREA Research Professor at ICTA-UAB, has been funded by the European Research Council (ERC) and conducted in collaboration with numerous local organizations, ranging from universities and governmental institutions to the civil society. Results from this work were recently published in the journal Nature Communications Earth & Environment.
The Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet) has predicted sunshine and haziness from Monday to Wednesday across the country. NiMet’s weather outlook…
ASHENEWS reports that the latest report by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) reveals that while heavy-duty vehicles (HDV) exports represent a modest 3.6% of the global automotive trade’s total value, their associated CO2 emissions have surged by over 30% since 2000, with trucks contributing 80% to this increase.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) bleeds over the years and its environment is the real reason why.
ASHENEWS reports that the Niger state governor, Mohammed Umaru Bago says that the state government has received $20 million from the Agro-Climatic Resilience in Semi-Arid Landscapes (ACReSAL) to plant trees in the state.