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Owere Mines worried Over Galamsey operations

Written on 1 Feb, 2010 at 10:00 in Environment | viewed 113 views times | 0 Comments
Owere Mines worried Over Galamsey operations

The management of Owere Mines Company Limited (OMCL), a gold mining company in the Asante-Akim North municipality, has raised concern about the siege of its concession by illegal small-scale Galamsey miners. Mr Roger Banister, project manager of the company has therefore... (Continue reading)

Study reveals hurricanes may triple

Written on 26 Jan, 2010 at 12:22 in Environment | viewed 124 views times | 0 Comments
Study reveals hurricanes may triple

The U.S. Southeast, Mexico, and the Caribbean will be pounded by more very intense hurricanes in the coming decades due to global warming, a new computer model suggests. Warmer sea surface temperatures—which fuel hurricanes—and shifting wind patterns are expected to strengthen... (Continue reading)

What is Climate Change?

Written on 15 Dec, 2009 at 9:21 in Environment | viewed 227 views times | 0 Comments

Climate change is a change in the statistical distribution of weather over periods of time that range from decades to millions of years. It can be a change in the average weather or a change in the distribution of weather events... (Continue reading)

Water weeds taking over River bodies

Written on 3 Nov, 2009 at 10:08 in Environment | viewed 416 views times | 0 Comments
Water weeds taking over River bodies

Environmentalists have cautioned that Ghana stands a great risk of losing its water bodies to water weeds, especially, the lower Volta in 10 years time, if nothing is done about the “invasive water weeds” on the surface of the country’s... (Continue reading)

Eco Brigade Hits Volta Region

Written on 19 Oct, 2009 at 10:30 in Environment, Top Story | viewed 354 views times | 0 Comments
Eco Brigade Hits Volta Region

Zoil Services Limited, a sister company of Waste Management Experts, Zoomlion Ghana Limited has unveiled the Volta Regional chapter of the Eco Brigade project with a clarion call on coastal dwellers to help make the project a success. The Minister of... (Continue reading)

Zongo-Junction residents swim in filth

Written on 16 Oct, 2009 at 14:47 in Environment | viewed 438 views times | 0 Comments
Zongo-Junction residents swim in filth

The campaign to keep the environment clean has failed to achieve its objectives as people keep on living in and sleeping in filth. A visit to Zongo-Junction, a suburb of Accra, by CONSTITUENCY TODAY revealed that the lives of residents were... (Continue reading)

WACAM REACTS TO ATTACKS BY CHIEFS OF AKYEM KOTOKU

Written on 29 Sep, 2009 at 14:48 in Environment | viewed 356 views times | 0 Comments
WACAM REACTS TO ATTACKS BY CHIEFS OF AKYEM KOTOKU

There has been recent orchestrated media attacks on WACAM by some chiefs of Akyem Kotoku area on the query of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food sent to the government of Ghana by the United Nations... (Continue reading)

Eco-Brigade: Keeping Our Beaches Clean

Written on 23 Sep, 2009 at 16:20 in Environment | viewed 385 views times | 0 Comments
Eco-Brigade: Keeping Our Beaches Clean

In the Feb., 6 2009, edition of TODAY, I wrote an article with the caption “Exploring the Potential of Our Beaches.” In that piece I tried to look at the many beaches along our coastal belts and how as a... (Continue reading)

Kumasi Decongestion Exercise takes off

Written on 10 Sep, 2009 at 10:39 in Environment, Featured Stories, Top Story | viewed 660 views times | 0 Comments
Kumasi Decongestion Exercise takes off

The Kumasi Metropolitan Authorities started decongesting the city yesterday as was announced earlier. The exercise, which some traders thought could not be undertaken, started as early as 4a.m., with the police, military and fire service personnel on guard as city guards... (Continue reading)

Filth engulfs Tema-New Town

Written on 18 Aug, 2009 at 14:31 in Environment | viewed 856 views times | 1 Comment
Filth engulfs Tema-New Town

The campaign against filth and ensuring proper means of waste disposal seems to be falling on deaf ears. ENVIRONMENT TODAY, can authoritatively report that haphazard dumping of waste in our surroundings is virtually becoming the order of the day. During the team’s... (Continue reading)

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