environment
Illegal Miners Will Be Absorbed Under Special Project
Government has said it will put in place an alternative livelihood programme for illegal miners who are expected to be...
Hope Fades For Sri Lanka Missing, Garbage Toll Hits 21
Hopes of finding anyone alive under a collapsed mountain of garbage in Sri Lanka's capital faded Sunday as the death...
The Bus Mafia Controlling Nepal’s Smog-Choked Capital
Nepal's government is trying to tackle rising pollution levels in the smog-choked Kathmandu Valley, but standing in the...
GUNSA Backs Galamsey Ban; Demands Tough Actions From Govt
The Ghana United Nations Students and Youth Association (GUNSA) says it has been devastated by reports of wanton...
Metro Planners Allowing Structures In Flood-Prone Areas
The Tema Metropolitan Director of the National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO), Hajia Zinab Abdulai, has...
Nana Addo To Launch ‘Planting For Food and Jobs’ On April 19
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is expected to launch the national ‘Planting for Food and Job programme’ at...
Mars Spacecraft’s First Missions Face Delays, NASA Says
NASA will probably delay the first two missions of its Orion deep-space capsule, being developed to send astronauts...
Sri Lanka Garbage Mountain Buries 40 Homes, Kills Six
At least six people were killed and 10 others injured in Sri Lanka's capital Friday after a massive rubbish dump buried...
Small Scale Farmers Introduced To High Nitrogen Fertilizer
Small scale farmers in the Sissala East and West district of the Upper West Region have been empowered to adopt a newly...
Rainstorm To Hit Ghana Tonight – GMA Warns
A rainstorm is expected to hit the entire country on Thursday night, the Ghana Meteorological Agency has warned. Senior...
Goaso Forest Reserves Under Threat
From January 2017 to date, a total of 137 chainsaw machines and 29 truck-load of illegal lumber have been seized by the...
France, Japan Aim To Land Probe On Mars Moon
France and Japan want to recover pieces of a Martian Moon and bring them back to Earth, the head of France's National...
Diarrhoea Kills More Than 500 In Somalia Since January
Cholera and acute diarrhoea have killed more than 500 people and left tens of thousands of others sick in drought-hit...
Invading ‘rat of the Sky’ Irks Algerians
"It's not a bird, it's a rat -- and it's squatting on my terrace," Ali says of his new neighbour, a yellow-legged gull...
Deport Foreign Nationals Involved In Galamsey
Some concerned Ghanaian citizens living in the United Kingdom have petitioned President Nana Addo to arrest persons...
Cyclone Cook: New Zealanders Flee Ahead of Huge Storm
Heavy rain has begun to hit New Zealand’s North Island, ahead of what is being called the worst storm in generations....
New Zealand Battens Down As Big Storm Approaches
New Zealand was bracing Thursday for a storm that meteorologists warned could be the worst for almost 50 years, with...
US Scientists Track Fish Migration Using DNA In Water Samples
A simple analysis of fish DNA in water drawn from two New York rivers successfully tracked the presence or absence of...
UN Chief Names German To Head UNDP
UN chief Antonio Guterres has named a German with extensive experience at the world organization, Achim Steiner, as the...