Scientists have found that air pollution is one of the leading causes of the increase in miscarriages. According to the report, “Acute effects of air pollutants on spontaneous pregnancy loss: a case-crossover study” the implication of heavy air pollution on women and their fetus is as bad as a woman smoking cigarettes during pregnancy.
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The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) has launched its eighth Food Policy Report. The report is an annual highlight of major food policy developments around the world. This year’s 166-page document looks at the importance of rural revitalization in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Current challenges of food insecurity and malnutrition In 2018,
The report has highlighted that as many as 113 million people in 53 countries are experiencing acute hunger and require urgent food and livelihood assistance
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Mental health and green therapy. Mental health awareness is on a rise within our communities. More and more people open about their struggles with depression. A huge part of these discussions is the affirmation of normalcy in seeking help from certified therapists and other medical practitioners. This new development can make a huge difference in
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The State’s Green Note was issued in 2018 as a response to addressing the problems of Lagos State’s street sanitation in a sustainable manner. The intention of the Note was to create a framework within which the state government could clean up the environment and recycle waste generated in the process while creating a sub-economy
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According to the executive director of Power Smart, Mr Deji Sura solar energy is the answer to an uninterrupted power supply to homes in africa. It is also the cheapest means. “The mobile phone revolution is forcing millions of poor Africans to demand for electricity as more people now depend on their mobile phones to
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Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the institution in charge of regulating the Nigerian Capital Market, has approved the book build in respect of the proposed Green Bond, issued by Access Bank Plc. Following the approval, the book build commenced on Thursday, February 21, 2019 and will be concluded in exactly one week, after which the funding of
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Countering the Impacts of climate change is weakening African countries’ economies experts have reported at the assembly of the Heads of State and Government of the African Union for 2019 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Harsen Nyambe Nyambe of the Department of Rural Economy and Agriculture at the AUC observed that the cost of climate change to
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Everyday, human action and inaction make earth become plastic – artificial. The constant need for greed coated as innovation for mankind put so much pressure on the planet and the irony of it all is that man is ever at the suffering end of his actions. Pollution is such an enormous challenge in this generation. Years
The collapse of civilisation and the natural world is on the horizon, Sir David Attenborough told the UN climate change summit in Poland. Sir Attenborough was chosen to represent the world’s people in addressing delegates from 200 nations who are in Katowice to negotiate how to turn pledges made in the 2015 Paris climate deal into reality. As part
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