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Communities close to waste sites at higher risk of developing asthma, TB

The Department of Environmental Affairs (DEA) says 98-million tonnes of waste is dumped into South Africa’s over 1000 landfill sites every year.

Source: South African News | Online News | The South African

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Maputo — Mozambican Health Minister Armindo Tiago announced in the northern city of Nampula on Thursday that drastic and strategic measures are being taken to hold back the spread of the Covid-19 respiratory disease in Nampula

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Production at Exxon-Mobil’s Liza-1 project in the Stabroek Block, offshore Guyana, has plummeted from 80,000 barrels per day (bpd) to now between 25,000 and 30,000 bpd as compressor problems continue and the company would not increase flaring above about 15 million cubic feet of natural gas per

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In a new report 'COVID 19: urgent call to protect people and nature', WWF says that the environmental factors driving the emergence of zoonotic diseases are: the trade and consumption of high-risk wildlife, land-use change leading to deforestation and conversion, expansion of agriculture and

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Tourism, fishing trawlers hurt seagrasses of East Africa - UN

In its new report titled Out of the blue: The value of seagrasses to the environment and to people, launched on World Oceans Day on June 8, Unep blames these unsustainable activities for a deteriorating coastal ecosystem, a decline in coastal productivity, and affected certain supportive functions

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The foundation, in a news release on the weekend, pointed out that for the last 11 years its “carefully integrated approach, which involves the active participation of Sandals and Beaches Resort team members, communities, guests, travel agents, donors and partners, has led to substantial

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Tanzania: Coordinator Assures of Incessant Immunisation

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