*Threatening 2 degree target Global carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels have increased by 49 per cent in the last two decades, according to the latest figures by an international team, including researchers at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, University of East Anglia Chimney stacks at coal power plant Published December 4 in the journal Nature Climate Change, the new... 

Several threatened species in the developing world are completely dependent on human agriculture for their survival, say scientists. white-shoulder ibis A study by researchers at the University of East Anglia (UEA), found at least 30 bird species that would be driven to extinction without farmland. The research is published in the journal Conservation Letters. This study focused on birds, but the team... 

Scientists have put forward their suggested names for the newest additions to the Periodic Table. The element plutonium If the names are accepted, element 114 will become Flerovium (Fl) in honour of the physicist Georgiy Flerov. While element 116 will become Livermorium (Lv), after the Californian laboratory where it was discovered. The table’s governing body will officially endorse the names... 

Thousands of demonstrators have marched through the South African city of Durban demanding faster action on climate change. The annual UN climate summit is being held at the city’s convention centre. Protesters were particularly angered by the stance of rich countries such as the US and Canada. In London former UK Deputy Prime Minister, Lord Prescott, said the approach of these nations was “appalling”. Halfway... 

As part of efforts to drive its message of good environmental sanitation in Ghanaian communities, Zoomlion Ghana Limited has rolled out a series of community-based environmental sanitation durbars aimed at bringing all stakeholders in the community together to brainstorm on how to push forward the “Clean Ghana” agenda together as a people from the community level. The programme which kicked-off... 

Zoomlion Ghana Limited and Standard Bank have submitted documentation for the registration of the first clean development mechanism (CDM) project in Ghana. The waste treatment project, which is expected to be completed before the end of 2011, is the first state-of-art composting and recycling plant in Ghana, which has been suffering from unstable waste management practices, with the associated detrimental... 

Lands and Natural Resources, Mike Hammah Noble Mineral Resources Limited (NMG), a mining company with focus on exploring for large scale gold deposits in Ghana, is pleased to announce that that drilling along a stretch of satellite deposits at its Bibiani Gold Project in Ghana has returned more wide, high-grade intersections, providing firm evidence that this tract of land could contain substantially... 

Ghana hiplife artiste and best rapper Michael Elliot Kwabena Okyere Darko, popularly known as Obrafour, has disclosed that coming December, he will begin a malaria campaign project across the country, as part of his contribution towards reducing the disease  in the country. Obrafour made this revelation on Showbiz Xtra, an entertainment programme on Happy 98.9 fm last Saturday. This was his response... 

Osagyefo Amoatia Ofori Panyin and the Planeteers Environmental activist, Chairman of the Captain Planet Foundation and daughter of media magnate Ted Turner (Founder, CNN) has launched the Ghana chapter of the Captain Planet Foundation. Hosted by his royal highness, Osagyefo Amoatia Ofori Panin, the Okyehene of the Akyem Abuakwa area and Edward Boateng, Executive Chairman of Global Media Alliance,... 

AMA Boss, Dr. Alfred Vanderpuije Over the past years, a very disturbing phenomenon that appears to be gaining grounds as far as indiscipline is concerned is the brute approach guards of Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) resort to in the name of law enforcement on major busy streets of our capital city. AMA guards popularly known as ‘Abayeei’ more often than not are found bullying traders and hawkers...