Environment

News : Environment

After torrential rains and floods claimed lives in Kenya's North Rift region, hundreds of displaced people are now in dire need of relief aid. (AllAfrica)

In a workshop in Yaounde last week they examined how they can preserve wildlife when exploiting the forest. (AllAfrica)

The Agriculture deputy minister for forests, André de Jesus Moda, said last Thursday in Luanda that the inventory process to determine the number of forests in the country is being drafted nationwide at this moment. (AllAfrica)

President Museveni has asked leaders in the Great Lakes Region to protect the wetlands and forests in order to prevent desertification.The President said this while opening the African Water Congress at the Commonwealth Resort Munyonyo, this week. (AllAfrica)

A delegation of local government leaders and community elders held meeting to discuss some important security and environmental issues regarding Nugal region in Somalia's autonomous state of Puntland, Radio Garowe reports. (AllAfrica)

Residents of Jos heaved a sigh of relief following the first heavy down pour this year which swept away the humid weather of the old tin city and its environs in the early evening hours of Monday. (AllAfrica)

The effects of climate change and global warming are hardly noticeable in my country. Germany is located in an ecologically secure and stable latitude; no desert, no flooding, no big natural catastrophes. That is why the alarming consequences of global warming are sometimes not fully understood by my fellow Germans, even though our western life style has huge impacts on climate change. (AllAfrica)

In a renewed effort by the Lagos State Government to ensure strict compliance of safety rules by ensuring that the highways and environment are kept clean and healthy, the Lagos Waste Management Authority (LAWMA) has stepped up fresh partnership with the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in the sensitization of Private Sector Participants (PSPs) who specialize in the transportation of wastes. (AllAfrica)

A high deforestation rate leaves the soils exposed, increasing the population's vulnerability to the negative impacts of climate change like landslides, Wangari Maathai, an environment activist and nobel Prize winner, has said. (AllAfrica)

The government is to embark on an aggressive tree-planting programme in the degraded mountainous areas to prevent future landslides. (AllAfrica)

Availability of air means by the army and police has facilitated the assistance to the victims of floods in the southern Cunene province, Angop has learnt. (AllAfrica)

God, not global emissions, is to blame for climate change, according to a survey conducted in 10 African countries. A close second, however, came deforestation, underlining the argument that there is information available - just not sufficient or effective enough to help people understand the reasons behind environmental issues. (AllAfrica)

Governments must curb the fast diminishing rate of forest cover or risk suffering from water stress and climate changes in the future, Nobel Peace prize laureate and Founder of the Green Belt Movement Professor Wangari Maathai has warned. (AllAfrica)

An acute water shortage after a prolonged drought in central Galgadud region of Somalia has forced thousands of people to abandon their villages, say officials. (AllAfrica)

When the rain poured in torrents in most parts of Lagos State last Tuesday evening, many Lagosians sighed with relief. They relished the fact that it came with a refreshing coolness after they have had to endure a spell of unusually hot weather. But for most residents of Debo Bashorun Street, a stone throw from the popular Faseun Road, near Century Bus-stop, Okota, the last thing they wish for now is another rainfall. (AllAfrica)

THE Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) last week clashed with herdsmen in Nyabushozi, Kiruhura district over reportedly owning torture chambers inside Lake Mburo National Park. (AllAfrica)

COMMERCIAL activities have been paralysed in some parts of Kano as fire razes the famous Kantin Kwari Textile Market. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), reports that the inferno which started in the early hours of Friday, began from one of the biggest buildings in the market popularly called "Gidan Labaran." (AllAfrica)

Palm oil output that does not cut down forests and harm wildlife may double to 3 million tonnes by the end of this year as benchmark Malaysian prices steadily rise, an industry official said on Monday. (AllAfrica)

Times are tough for Sarah Amana, 33, a fish monger at Laropi landing site in Adjumani district, northern Uganda. The fishermen no longer bring in the bountiful catches. Amana has had to settle for smaller fish. (AllAfrica)

Water scarcity is likely to hit Uganda by 2035, according to the 2009 review report by the Ministry of Water and Environment. (AllAfrica)

The pain of the landslide tragedy that hit Bududa district will stay on for long. The education sector was severely affected. About 100 pupils perished. (AllAfrica)

The National Defence minister, Cândido Van-Dúnem, said Tuesday in Ondjiva, southern Cunene province, that his department and others of the Government will continue providing assistance to the victims of the rains and floods hitting the local populations. (AllAfrica)

The National Defence minister, Cândido Pereira Van-Dúnem, has travelled to southern Cunene province on Tuesday, to learn about the plight of the victims of the rains that hit the region recently, leaving behind a spate of destruction. (AllAfrica)

New water streams from Mui river, district of Cuvelai, southern Cunene province, a major contributor to the floods hitting the region, was detected Monday, Angop learned. (AllAfrica)

The state owned Adami Tulu Pesticide SC is concerned about the stock of 400tn of Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) it has in its possession after the decision of the Ministry of Health (MoH) to ban its use starting this year. (AllAfrica)

President Yoweri Museveni yesterday called on the countries in the Great Lakes region to protect wetlands and forests to stem the spread of the desert. (AllAfrica)

The current toll from the flooding in central Mozambique is six fatalities and 37 injuries, according to the government spokesperson, Deputy Justice Minister Alberto Nkutumula. (AllAfrica)

A Deputy Minister for Energy in charge of Petroleum, Mr. Emmanuel Armah Kofi Buah, has charged the management of Adamus Mining Resources, one of the mining companies operating in the Western Region, to observe Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) standards to keep the environment safe. (AllAfrica)

The Buea forum will set the foundation for the African symposium on climate change. (AllAfrica)

Responding to EU Environment Ministers Meeting today to discuss Europe's plan of action on climate change post Copenhagen, including the conditions under which the EU might increase its emissions reduction target to 30 percent, Tim Gore, Climate Advisor for Oxfam International said: (AllAfrica)

The Kwara State Government has urged all residents along the river bank of Asa river to the desist from dumping refuse in the river as rain was fast approaching. (AllAfrica)