environment
South Africa To Harvest the Highest Maize Crop In 40 Years
South Africa is expecting to harvest its biggest maize crop in four decades a year after drought devastated output of...
CSIR Supports ‘Planting For Food and Jobs’ With New Cassava Varieties
The Crop Research Institute under the Centre for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has introduced three new...
Esoko Refutes Allegations of Thwarting Planting For Food and Jobs Project
Esoko, a Ghanaian private company, says it is not thwarting government’s Planting for Food and Jobs project under a...
Sri Lanka Appeals For Help As Floods Cripple Water Supply
Sri Lanka appealed for volunteers Tuesday to help with a massive recovery operation in the wake of devastating flooding...
Hundreds of Thousands Evacuated As Cyclone Hits Bangladesh
Cyclone Mora hit Bangladesh Tuesday packing winds of up to 117 kilometres per hour (73mph) after authorities evacuated...
Chiefs Invoke Curses On Fishermen
The Chiefs in the Edina Traditional Area in the Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abirem municipality have bemoaned the high rate of...
Greenstreet Tells Akufo-Addo
Sniper-turned scuba diver and presidential candidate of the Convention People’s Party (CPP) for the 2016 elections,...
Tree With Solar Panels Unveiled In France
A solar tree with giant square leaves that convert sunlight into electricity was unveiled in the central French town of...
US Launches Probe Into Imports of Photovoltaic Cells
The United States has launched an investigation into imports of photovoltaic or solar cells, to determine if they pose...
No Compensation For Farmers Affected By Army Worms
The Deputy Minister said what the government is doing now is to assess the damage caused A Deputy Minister for Food and...
Sri Lanka Deploys More Troops As Flood Toll Climbs To 180
At least 180 people have now been confirmed dead in the worst flooding to hit Sri Lanka for 14 years. More than half a...
Sumbrungu Chiefs, Residents Protest Relocation of Airport
Residents of Sumbrungu including the chiefs in the Bolgatanga Municipality of the Upper East region have advised the...
Nearly 300,000 Evacuated As Cyclone Approaches Bangladesh
Bangladesh has evacuated nearly 300,000 people as Cyclone Mora barrelled towards its southeastern coast at speeds of...
6.6-Magnitude Quake Hits Indonesia’s Sulawesi
A shallow, 6.6-magnitude earthquake hit inland on the central Indonesian island of Sulawesi on Monday, US seismologists...
Great Barrier Reef Can No Longer Be Saved
The Great Barrier Reef can no longer be saved in its present form and is damaged beyond repair, scientists have warned....
Taiwan Steel Plant Opens In Vietnam After Fish Deaths
A Taiwanese steel firm behind a toxic waste dump that killed tonnes of fish in Vietnam last year started operations on...
Pakistan Protesters Demand Electricity As Temperatures Soar
Violent protests erupted in Pakistan Monday as crippling electricity cuts left hundreds of thousands of people without...
Sri Lanka Deploys More Troops As Flood Toll Climbs To 177
Thousands of Sri Lankan troops battled Monday to get relief supplies to nearly half a million people displaced by the...
Compensate Farmers For Losses Arising Out of Army Worm Havoc – Fmr. MP
Former Member of Parliament for Ablekuma Central in the Greater Accra Region, Theophilous Tetteh Chaie, has called on...