Local Fruit Processing Firms May Collapse If… – Blue Skies
Local fruit processing companies risk collapse due to inadequate raw material, if no conscious effort is made by government to ...
Tag: Physical geography
Wildfires Rage As California Sizzles
The first major wildfires after the end of California's five-year drought raged across the state Saturday as it was gripped ...
UNESCO Keeps Great Barrier Reef Off ‘in Danger’ List
UNESCO said Thursday its World Heritage Committee (WHC) had decided not to place the Great Barrier Reef on its list ...
An Iceberg the Size of Delaware Is About To Break Off From Antarctica
A chunk of ice bigger than the US state of Delaware is hanging 'by a thread' from the West Antarctic ...
Flash Floods ‘kill 11 In Pakistan’
At least 11 people were killed and scores more people were injured in flash floods triggered by heavy rains in ...
Climate Change Could Greatly Widen US Inequality
If the United States fails to take decisive measures to combat climate change, it will become a poorer country facing ...
2020 Is the Deadline To Avert Climate Catastrophe, Experts Claim
A world that heats up beyond that threshold will face a crescendo of devastating impacts ranging from deadly heatwaves to ...
Anlo Beach Residents Call For Resettlement
Residents of Anlo Beach, a coastal community in the Shama District of the Western Region, who had many of their ...
Great Barrier Reef A $42 Billion Asset ‘too Big To Fail’
Australia's under-pressure Great Barrier Reef is an asset worth Aus$56 billion (US$42 billion) and as an ecosystem and economic driver ...
Starvation Looms As Food Runs Out In Drought-Hit Ethiopia
The Somali people of Ethiopia's southeast have a name for the drought that has killed livestock, dried up wells and ...
Grounded Flights, Fires and Power Outages As Temps Soar In US
A scorching heatwave in the western United States has grounded flights, caused fires and prompted power outages, with record temperatures ...
Soaring Temperatures In Portugal Threaten Firefighting Effort
Soaring temperatures threaten efforts to bring a raging forest fire in Portugal under control, officials say. The week’s highest temperatures ...
Global Coral Bleaching May Be Ending, US Agency Says
Coral reef bleaching may be easing after three years of high ocean temperatures, the longest such period since the 1980s, ...
Reliable Climate, Weather Data Key To Africa’s Agric Transformation [Article]
Though it has about 60% of the world’s uncultivated arable land, Africa’s net food import is predicted to grow from ...
Tropical Peat Forests Risk Turning From Carbon
Peat bogs in tropical forests, long key outlets for greenhouse gases, could dry up due to farming and global warming, ...
We Need Foreign Aid To Tackle Tidal Waves – Atta Akyea
The Minister for Works and Housing, Samuel Atta Akyea, has said there is the need for external donor support to ...
Over 1,500 Displaced By Tidal Waves At Blekusu In Ketu South
At least 1,500 persons have been displaced by the tidal waves that swept through Blekusu, a fishing community in the Ketu ...
Fishermen Cry For Help As Tidal Waves Destroy Canoes
Fishermen on the coast of the Mfantseman Municipality in the Central Region, have had their canoes other fishing equipment destroyed ...
10,000 Residents Evacuated Amid Fire
Up to 10,000 people have been evacuated from a scenic coastal town in South Africa that has been devastated by ...
South African Fires Force ‘10,000 To Flee’
Up to 10,000 people have been evacuated from a scenic coastal town in South Africa that has been devastated by ...