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Congo launches large-scale tree-planting programme
Nov 12, 2011 14:44 EST
The Republic of Congo has embarked on a vast tree-planting programme to guard against the twin scourges of deforestation and soil degradation that plague many African states.
Amnesty urges Shell Nigeria to start huge oil clean up
Nov 10, 2011 06:03 EST
LAGOS (Reuters) - Royal Dutch Shell's failure to mop up two oil spills in the Niger Delta has caused huge suffering to locals whose fisheries and farmland were poisoned, and the firm and its partners must pay $1 billion to start cleaning up the region, Amnesty International said on Thursday.
DR Congo seeks to keep its green lung breathing
Nov 04, 2011 06:44 EDT
Forest conservation is a major challenge for the Democratic Republic of Congo, the world's second biggest green lung after the Amazon, amid a paucity of energy production and renewable alternatives.
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Sep 26, 2011 10:40 EDT
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Water crisis, population surge prompt rethink on food: UN
Aug 22, 2011 10:42 EDT
Population growth and water stress are driving Earth to a food and environmental crunch that only better farming techniques and smarter use of the ecosystem will avert, a UN report issued on Monday said.
Water crisis prompts rethink on food: UN
Aug 22, 2011 00:05 EDT
Population growth and water stress are driving Earth to a food and environmental crunch that only better farming techniques and smarter use of the ecosystem will avert, a UN report issued on Monday said.
Water crisis prompts rethink on food: UN
Aug 21, 2011 21:10 EDT
Population growth and water stress are driving Earth to a food and environmental crunch that only better farming techniques and smarter use of the ecosystem will avert, a UN report issued on Monday said.
Nigeria sets up body to review UN oil pollution findings
Aug 17, 2011 15:54 EDT
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan Wednesday created a special body to review UN findings on extensive oil pollution in the Ogoniland region and propose remedies, a statement said.
Polluted Nigerian region may need biggest ever cleanup
Aug 16, 2011 09:10 EDT
The air smells like poison, the creek water carpeted with crude, and the boat operator covers his nose as he steps on a jetty in a region hit by what may be the world's worst oil contamination.
UN oil devastation report to be taken 'seriously': Shell
Aug 08, 2011 15:32 EDT
Shell's managing director in Nigeria on Monday pledged the oil giant would take "seriously" a UN study on unprecedented pollution, but reiterated that the company was not to blame for most spills.
Nigeria, Shell under fire after UN details oil devastation
Aug 05, 2011 12:22 EDT
Nigeria's government and oil giant Shell Friday came under heavy pressure following the release of a landmark UN report detailing oil pollution that may require the world's biggest ever clean-up.
Analysis: Nigerian oil region's gloomy outlook unmoved by U.N.
Aug 05, 2011 10:57 EDT
ABUJA (Reuters) - A landmark U.N. report on 50 years of oil pollution in Nigeria is unlikely to bring the change many had hoped for, after Shell and the national petroleum company went on the defensive and weary local communities said they had seen it all before.
Nigerian oil pollution may need world's biggest clean-up: UN
Aug 04, 2011 16:17 EDT
Decades of oil pollution in Nigeria's Ogoniland region may require the world's biggest ever clean-up, the UN environmental agency said Thursday as it released a landmark report on the issue.
U.N. slams Shell as Nigeria needs biggest ever oil clean-up
Aug 04, 2011 13:29 EDT
ABUJA (Reuters) - A U.N. report has criticized Shell and the Nigerian government for contributing to 50 years of pollution in a region of the Niger Delta which it says needs the world's largest ever oil clean-up, costing an initial $1 billion and taking up to 30 years.
U.N. slams Shell as Nigeria needs biggest ever oil clean-up
Aug 04, 2011 13:29 EDT
ABUJA (Reuters) - A U.N. report has criticized Shell and the Nigerian government for contributing to 50 years of pollution in a region of the Niger Delta which it says needs the world's largest ever oil clean-up, costing an initial $1 billion and taking up to 30 years.
U.N. to deliver oil spill report to Nigerian president
Aug 04, 2011 12:12 EDT
ABUJA (Reuters) - The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) will hand Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan a report on oil pollution on Thursday, unveiling the full extent of almost 50 years of crude spills in the Ogoniland region of the Niger Delta.
Overuse of C.Asia's Amu-Darya a threat to stability: UN
Jul 11, 2011 13:00 EDT
The over-exploitation of the Amu-Darya river which snakes across Afghanistan, Tadjikistan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan, could threaten the long-term stability of the region, the UN said Monday.
Is ocean garbage killing whales?
Jul 10, 2011 00:44 EDT
Millions of tonnes of plastic debris dumped each year in the world's oceans could pose a lethal threat to whales, according to a scientific assessment to be presented at a key international whaling forum this week.
