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Pink Star Diamond Sets New World Record In Hong Kong

A rare diamond known as the Pink Star has been sold in Hong Kong for more than $71m (£57m), setting a new world record...

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‘Pink Star’ Diamond Fetches Record $71.2 Million In Hong Kong

A giant diamond named the "Pink Star" broke the world record for a gemstone sold at auction when it fetched $71.2...

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Graphene-Based Sieve Turns Seawater Into Drinking Water

A UK-based team of researchers has created a graphene-based sieve capable of removing salt from seawater. The...

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14 Kids Poisoned At Hotel Pool, 1 Dead

A teenage boy died and 14 other people were hospitalized after guests at a southern Michigan hotel were found...

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Integrate Traditional Leaders In Galamsey Fight – Think Tank

An environment sustainability Policy think tank, Green Growth Solutions, has called on chiefs and traditional leaders...

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Fuel Prices To Drop Further

Prices of petroleum products are expected to fall further in the first pricing window of April, the Institute for...

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Ghana Ratifies Mercury Convention

People living in Ghana’s mining communities may now be better protected from deadly mercury poisoning. On March 23,...

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‘Pink Star’ Diamond Set To Fetch Record Price In Hong Kong

A plum-sized pink diamond is expected to break the world record for a gemstone early next month when it goes under the...

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Solid Gold Coin Worth $4m Stolen From Berlin Museum

A giant gold coin bearing the Queen's image, and worth $4m (£3.2m), has been stolen from a museum in Germany. The...

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‘Protect Ghana’s Water Bodies’

Executive Director of Water Resources Commission (WRC), Mr. Ben Ampomah, has called on government and other...

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Let’s Rescue Birim River From Galamsey Operations

Water in the Birim River is fast becoming untreatable for human consumption as a result of high levels of pollution by...

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Water Everywhere But Little To Drink

Water, Water Everywhere Not Any Drop To Drink Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner is as...

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No End In Sight

Despite the huge public outcry against toxic diesel sold in Ghana which endangers the health of the citizens, in the...

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Researchers Assess Harmful Effects of Mercury Use On Small-Scale Miners

A research to assess the effect of excessive use of mercury in gold extraction on artisanal miners and residents of...

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Tap Water 99% Safer Than Packaged Water

Water produced by the Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL) for domestic and industrial uses is safer for consumption than...

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We Can No Longer Tolerate ‘galamsey’ Activities

The fight against ‘galamsey’, he noted is a collective responsibility of everyone The Eastern regional Minister,...

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Marking World Water Day: Ghanaians Still Lack Access To Safe Water Despite Progress

Data released by Afrobarometer, a pan-African, non-partisan research network, indicates that a total of 663 million...

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Awake Water Marks World Water Day

Officials and distributors of Awake Purified Drinking Water joined Ghanaians and the world to observe this year’s...

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Water Shortage To Hit World Soon – Activist

The founder and president of Friends of Rivers and Water Bodies, Nana Dwomoh-Sarpong, has said by the time the world...