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Climate ambition hangs in balance as Europe votes

The EU’s global climate leadership is at stake as a new political cycle begins amid increasingly polarised public opinion.

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Much shorter working weeks needed to tackle climate crisis – study

People across Europe will need to work drastically fewer hours to avoid disastrous climate heating unless there is a radical decarbonising of the economy, according to a study.

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Humans causing shrinking of nature as larger animals die off

Humanity’s ongoing destruction of wildlife will lead to a shrinking of nature, with the average body size of animals falling by a quarter, a study predicts.

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Angola, Portugal sign memorandum on biodiversity

Signed the document are National Institute of Biodiversity and Conservation Areas of the Ministry of the Environment (INBAC) and the Center for Research on Biodiversity and Genetic Resources of Por

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Country gains scientific book on biodiversity

The book entitled "Biodiversity of Angola, Science and Conservation: A Modern Synthesis" brings general aspects of the national biodiversity, related to fauna, marine, floristic aspects, among othe

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47 million Nigerians indulge in open defecation — UNICEF

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has said not less than 47 million Nigerians still indulge in open defecation in the country.

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Fears of Ebola pandemic if violent attacks continue in DR Congo

Health officials have warned that the second-deadliest outbreak of Ebola may spiral out of control unless attacks by armed groups on medical facilities and workers in the Democratic Republic of the

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Nigerian plastic bag sellers could face three years in jail

Plastic bags dumped by the roadside blight the landscape in many placesImage caption: Plastic bags dumped by the roadside blight the landscape in many places

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23/05/2019
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Uganda to start Ebola vaccine trials

The trial is going to use the Janssen Ebola Vaccine that was developed by Janssen Pharmaceutical Company.

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23/05/2019
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Gabon president fires VP, forests minister over hardwood scandal

Gabon’s President Ali Bongo has fired his vice president and his forests minister, his office said on Wednesday, after hundreds of containers of illegally logged kevazingo wood that had been seized

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