Environmental degradation
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Former Nigerian President, Olusegun Obasanjo has raised alarm over water borehole drilling in homes, declaring that the repercussions could be devastating. He lamented that the incessant construction of boreholes particularly in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, was as a result of failure of subsequent administrations to sustain the Oyan Dam project embarked on by his…
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From Maryland to the Canadian capital, a monstrous cloud of smoke spewed by Quebec’s wildfires has forced children to stay indoors, grounded flights in New York City and left millions of residents at risk of breathing unhealthy air. More than 75 million people in the eastern US are under air quality alerts on Wednesday due…
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From 2013 to 2022, “human-induced warming has been increasing at an unprecedented rate of over 0.2 degrees Celsius per decade,” they reported in a peer-reviewed study aimed at policymakers. Average annual emissions over the same period hit an all-time high of 54 billion tonnes of CO2 or its equivalent in other gases — about 1,700…
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