Category: Environment
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Wet Season: NGO urge residents of Gombe to plant more trees
A Gombe-based NGO, Jewel Environmental Initiative (JEI), on Tuesday advised residents of Gombe State to seize the opportunity of the wet season to plant more trees in the state. Mr Ismail Bima, the NGO’s Chief Executive Officer, in an interview with our correspondent in Gombe, said with the growing threat of desertification, collective effort was…
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China employs 546 “fish guards” to protect ecology in Qinghai Lake
Qinghai province in northwest China, known as the country’s “water tower,” is where multiple major rivers start flowing. It boasts rich ecological resources and serves as a shield that protects the country’s ecological security.Recently, 546 people in 40 townships of nine counties in the province’s Haixi Mongolian and Tibetan autonomous prefecture, Yushu prefecture and Golog…
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Ogoni people want FG to build contaminated soil management center
Ogoni Liberation Initiative on Monday called on the Federal Government to build a contaminated soil management centre of excellence in Ogoni land in Rivers. It said in a 24-point communiqué issued at the end of a summit held last weekend that the decayed and polluted Ogoni environment should be comprehensively cleaned up, restored and continually…
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Carbon emission manager, a new profession that helps enterprises consolidate green development
By Qiu Chaoyi, People’s Daily A slew of reform measures have been rolled out by China since the country proposed to peak carbon emission and achieve carbon neutrality.A national carbon emission trading system is scheduled to be launched this year, under which enterprises would be allocated with carbon emission quota by relevant government departments according…