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Tanzania: Rising Tides Threaten Coastal Towns
Surging Indian Ocean tides have forced hundreds of people in northeast Tanzania's Pangani District to abandon their homes, as higher seas increasingly threaten settlements along East Africa's coastline.
Several towns and villages are suffering flooding and intrusions of salt water, which are damaging property and tainting clean water supplies. Scientists and government officials attribute the problem partly to climate change, but crumbling sea defences are also to blame.
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Nepalis Ask for Alternative to Water Boring on World Water Day
The water comes from a metal pipe attached to a machine that extracts water from underground. Nepali says that the process, called water boring, has enabled his family of 10 to attain water despite a persistent nationwide shortage.
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Uganda: Water Harvesting Is Manafwa's Lifeline
The pattern is well known. After the rains, the dry season follows and this happens twice every year. As the rain pounds most parts of the country, people do not trap it and get caught in water shortages as soon as it stops raining. But 40-year old Rhona Situyi, a resident of Busambaza village hanging on the slopes of Mt. Elgon in Manafwa district has defied this trend. She stores water when it comes in plenty and uses it when it becomes scarce. This, she says is what helps her to avoid walking to a shared bug infested pond down in the valley located five kilometres away. Also her children do not get stressed over collecting water.
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India & Maharashtra growing, even in sq km
MUMBAI: In geography texts, the familiar shape of India has remained constant since 1947. But with new land mass constantly being added through reclamation or subtracted on account of soil erosion, its topography has certainly been altered even if not charted.
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Batanes: Example for sustainable farming
Even before agriculture experts introduced sustainable-farming techniques to mitigate the impact of climate change, the Ivatan farmers have been practicing it for many decades already.
Batanes is an idyllic and time-warped province of 11 islands in the northernmost tip of the Philippines, but only three of them—Batan, Sabtang and Itbayat—are inhabited with a total of 16,000 population.
Almost half of the land area in the capital town of Basco on Batan Island are mountains and hills with majestic seascapes, which explains why the Ivatans are both farmers and fishermen.
Many agricultural lands across the country have lost nutrients due to increased use of inorganic fertilizers to augment rising demands for mass production of farm products. This practice has also led many cities and provinces in the Philippines to suffer from severe flash floods due to soil erosion
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Nigeria: 'Erosion Control Requires Patience, a Lot of Funds'
The Ecological Fund is an intervention agency initiated by the Federal Government towards combating the ecological problems in the country. In this interview, Dr MacJohn Nwaobiala, the Permanent Secretary in charge of the fund speaks to our reporter on the operations and challenges facing the fund.
What is your assessment of the Ecological Fund in addressing the ecological challenges facing the country?
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Environmental education regenerated
"The fieldwork was dangerous because landslides often occurred, but it was well worth the effort," Chen said.
After four years' research, Chen wrote his doctoral dissertation about the rehabilitation of eroded granite mountainous regions. But his work in turn inspired his university, which established a center for scientific research in Changting in 2003.
The center later became a think tank and underpinned the county's efforts to control soil erosion with scientific advice.
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Residents livid over plans to dig up asbestos site
A PROPOSAL to build a huge waste treatment plant on a seven-hectare site in western Sydney once used to manufacture asbestos has outraged residents who say it threatens their safety.
When the extent of the deadly legacy of asbestos was realised in the late 1990s, the
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Law firm concerned about asbestos site
A law firm that has acted for thousands of asbestos victims has called for a former asbestos manufacturing site in Sydney's west to be remediated before it's developed.
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Nigeria: Enugu Budgets N438 Million for Road Maintenance
Enugu State Government has earmarked the sum of N438.8million for the procurement of priority equipments and vehicles for the take-off of the State Road Maintenance Agency (ENSROMA), established mainly to maintain roads in the state.
Commissioner for Information Mr. Chuks Ugwoke in a statement sent to THISDAY said that the money would be used in procuring 22 priority items, including backhole loader, wheel loader, asphalt paver and motor grader, soil compactor and asphalt plant, among others.
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