President Trump has rolled back environmental regulations, pulled the United States out of the Paris climate accord, brushed aside dire predictions about the effects of climate change, and turned the term “global warming” into a punch line rather than a prognosis. Now, after two years spent unraveling the policies of his predecessors,
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The Executive Director, China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation, Mr Jacques Liao, has given the assurance that the ongoing Lagos-Ibadan rail project, which is at 79 per cent completion, will be concluded in April next year. Liao, who made this disclosure while interacting with journalists at the corporate headquarters of the company
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The largest individual structure humanity has ever created is not a skyscraper, a pyramid or even the Great Wall of China: it’s a landfill. Fresh Kills landfill on Staten Island absorbed hundreds of millions of tonnes of New York’s rubbish in its 53-year life. The site closed in 2001, but at
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Verdant hills stretch into the distance at Hell’s Gate National Park, where zebras, buffalos, antelopes, baboons and other wildlife roam an idyllic landscape of forests, gorges and grassy volcanoes near the shores of Lake Naivasha. (more…)
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Drilling will start this week at what could become the UK's first deep geothermal electricity plant in Cornwall. (more…)
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The warning from the world's top climate scientists that carbon dioxide (CO2) will need to be removed from the atmosphere to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees (more…)
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An interactive map developed by Aalto University has mapped the shocking water shortage the world currently faces. (more…)
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The National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN), in partnership with Hybrid Group, a Nigerian firm involved in provision of safety, project management and allied services, has called on Nigerians to be more safety conscious in order to prevent and reduce the risk of disasters in the country. (more…)
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The nation needs to ramp up efforts to suck heat-trapping gases out of the air to fight climate change, a new U.S. report said. (more…)
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Mass extinction events spanning two global warming periods in Earth’s history wiped out huge amounts of ocean life and destroyed reef ecosystems, a new study warns. (more…)
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