Original post on The Guardian New Zealand’s new government is considering creating a visa category to help relocate Pacific peoples displaced by climate change. The new category would make official the Green party’s pre-election policy which promised 100 visas for those affected by climate change. As part of the new Labour-led coalition government, the Green […]
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Welcome to part three, it is going to be on Hair Related Products and Other Creams. please click here and here for part one and two For those of you who don’t know I’m natural haired and (drum roll please) a product junkie. I know some environmentalist just clutched their pearls, I sorry but anytime
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Original post from Environews Nigeria The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola, says that the Federal Government is partnering with the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) to implement a Participatory Slum Upgrading Programme (PSUP) initiative in Nigeria. Fashola disclosed this on Tuesday, October 31, 2017 at the commemoration of the 2017 “World Habitat
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Original post on DW Though terrorism has reared its vicious head throughout the passage of time, the threat it currently poses has cast a very long and bleak shadow over the world. In systematically murdering, raping, persecuting and kidnapping, the so-called Islamic State and Nigerian terror group Boko Haram have collectively sent policy-makers into a
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Original post on PM News Visionscape, an environmental utility group, has thrown its weight behind the 2017 edition of Lagos Fashion and Design Week (LFDW) as one of the official sponsors of the event scheduled for October 25-28 at Eko Atlantic, Lagos. Lagos Fashion and Design Week (LFDW) is a multiday fashion event platform that
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Original post on Independent German power producers are poised to pay customers to use electricity this weekend. Wind generation is forecast to climb to a record on Sunday, creating more output than needed and driving electricity prices below zero, broker data compiled by Bloomberg show. It would be the first time this year that the average price for a
Original post on Quartz Even as some people would like to see a rebirth of the coal industry in the US, it’s renewable energy that keeps generating good news. Over the next decade, jobs for solar panel installers and wind turbine technicians will grow twice as fast as any other occupation, according to a Bloomberg analysis of the US Bureau
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Original post on Ecowatch Chilean President Michelle Bachelet signed a bill Wednesday that prohibits the sale of single-use plastic bags in 102 coastal villages and towns in a bid to stop the build-up of ocean plastic and to “[take] care of our marine ecosystems.” An estimated eight million tons of plastic trash gets dumped into our oceans each year, literally chokingmarine life, harming
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The Street Dreams project is aimed at equipping young girls with skills in documentary photography and also giving them cameras to kick off their photography careers. We are so excited about this partnership with Lensational and grateful to our sponsors: PIND Foundation, Jumia Nigeria, Fifis Food House, Ogoni Stories and Greetings World. We are happy
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A recent United Nations Report noted that while developing countries are improving the access to clean drinking water, Sanitation is still a problem. The World Health Organization (WHO) and United Nations International Children Education Fund noted in a joint report that over 2.4 billion people could be at risk of potentially fatal diseases if the
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