Category: Environment

Ozone Layer Is Healing, New UN Report Says

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There is an ongoing healing of the ozone layer, findings of a new UN-backed report released on Monday, have shown.   The study, ‘Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion: 2018’, is the latest in a series of reports, released every four years, which monitor the recovery of ozone in the stratosphere.   Ozone is a layer that protects life on Earth from harmful layers of ultraviolet rays from the sun.   The study shows that the concentration of ozone-depleting substances continues to decrease, leading to an improvement in the layer since…

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EDITORIAL – Time For Governor Ambode To Act In Correcting Deficiencies In Waste Management

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  It is high time that the Lagos State Government sits up and save the environment from impending health dangers by either reversing its present ineffective waste management initiative and bring back the one put in place by preceding governments or give the masses a workable alternative.   The present situation where every junction in Ikorodu and other parts of the state is turning into refuse dump which are left unattended to is not only taking the state back by decades but also portraying the so called mega city as…

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Existing Structures, Current Realities Reveal Deficiencies In Waste Management – Ambode

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Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode on Monday said existing structures and current realities in waste management in the State reveal deficiencies that do not align with the government’s vision of a smart city. The Governor, who disclosed this at the commemoration of the 2018 World Habitat Day at the Adeyemi-Bero Auditorium, in Ikeja with the theme; “Municipal Solid Waste Management”, said waste generation was a natural phenomenon as a result of human activities and that the challenges of managing solid waste cannot be overemphasized. While acknowledging efforts that previous administrations…

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