Environment & Climate Change
HumAngle’s Climate Desk researches, evaluates information about climate change, its characteristics, causes and impacts, and ways to mitigate it.
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Gabon Forestry, Water Professionals Suspend 2 Month-Old Strike
After two months of industrial action, Gabon’s National Syndicate of Forestry and Water Professionals (SYNAPEF) has suspended its strike that…
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UN Calls For Clean Air For All, As Nigerians Face Air pollution
Lagos, Nigeria’s most populous city and economic capital, is known for its “go-slow” (traffic snarl) as commuters and goods patiently…
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Double Displacements As IDPs in Northern Nigeria Lose Camps To Floods
While they struggle with their new realities in the camps, several internally displaced persons (IDPs) in parts of Northern Nigeria…
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Flood Destroys Over 50,000 Houses in Jigawa
Reports from Jigawa State, northwestern Nigeria, have confirmed the death of 19 people and the destruction of over 50,000 houses…
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Gabon To Host International Colloquium On Biodiversity In May 2021
The Gabon based non-governmental organization (NGO) Brainforest and its partners will, on May 6 and 7, 2021, organise an international…
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Gabon To Help Timber Sector In Industrialisation Ambitions
The government of Gabon would help operators in the timber transformation industry achieve their goals of becoming one of the…
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Flood Devastates Parts Of Niger Republic As Nigeria Braces For Impact
Floodwater has submerged parts of Niger Republic, including the country’s capital city, Niamey, after prolonged torrential rainfall led to flooding…
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Environmental Preservation Is Affair Of Everyone, Says Chadian Environment Minister
The Chadian Minister of Environment, Water and Fisheries has called on the Chadian people to “feel concerned by the preservation…
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‘Sand Mining Affecting Our Farmlands,’ Gobirawa Residents Cry Out
Residents of Gobirawa, a community in Madobi Local Government Area, Kano, say sand mining operations in the town have caused…
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Gabon: Environmental Activists Say 1 Year Jail Term For Ivory Traffickers Not Enough
Environmental protection non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have expressed dissatisfaction with the one-year jail term imposed on five ivory traffickers recently arrested…
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