New research by European and African scientists, including a team from the University of York, warns of the risks posed by the increasing air pollution over the cities of West Africa – amid fears it could have an impact on human health, meteorology and regional climate. …
Mohammed Aminu in Sokoto , the Sokoto State chapter of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) on Sunday said it was poised to provide free medical services to all persons taking part in the sanitation exercise in the state. …
–By Loretta Okonkwo
Introduction:
Climate Change refers to a change in the state of the climate that can be identified by changes in the variability of its properties (temperature, rainfall), and that persists for an extended period. It may be due to natural internal processes or external forcing- persistent human activities causing changes in the composition of the atmosphere or in land use. …
The National Orientation Agency (NOA) in collaboration with the Green World Matters Limited has embarked on ‘Operation keep your environment clean’, in an attempt to boost cleanliness and inculcate the habit of frequent sanitation among the people of Kaduna State. …
Never mind lowering the rate of death from air pollution in India and China. Just keeping those rates steady will demand urgent action to clear the skies, according to a new report published Tuesday. …
Rescuers fought bad weather Tuesday as they searched for more than 400 people, many of them elderly Chinese tourists, missing after a ship capsized on the Yangtze River in what was likely China’s worst shipping disaster in almost 70 years. …
Air pollution has been termed as the world’s largest single environmental health risk by the World Health Organisation (WHO) at the recently concluded World Health Assembly in Geneva last week. After debating the topic for the first time ever, the assembly adopted a resolution to address the health impacts of air pollution. …
The National Weather Service issued a new flash flood warning on Wednesday for Houston as the fourth most-populous U.S. city searched for bodies from deadly storms that turned neighborhoods into lakes. …
