Care For Trees and Green Areas
This week’s episode takes a closer a look at the care for trees as a follow up to our previous topic which was Afforestation – the flip side of the coin, Deforestation.
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The Devastating Effects of Deforestation and Forest Degradation
Do you know that deforestation and forest degradation continue to take place at alarming rates and contribute significantly to the ongoing loss of biodiversity with millions of hectares lost to conversion? One of the many impacts of this environmental menace…
Assessing the Challenges of Water Crisis
Across the world, 2.2 billion people still live without access to safe drinking water while another 3.5 billion lack access to decent sanitation – a situation the global organization, UN says is challenging. This year’s UN report on World Water…
Averting The Sahel Food Crisis
Today’s package focuses on the Sahel, a region with dire projections of mass food insecurity emanating from the combined effect of protracted conflict, climate change, and global crisis. Food insecurity is defined as ‘when people do not have adequate physical…
Pungent Effects of Solid Waste in Neighborhoods
The issue of solid waste in most countries of the subregion and beyond constitutes a major threat to public health with a wide chain of repercussions affecting humans, plants and biodiversity. According to research, Ghana, Nigeria, Liberia and Sierra Leone…
Funding Agribusiness and Food Sufficiency in West Africa
This edition of the programme discusses Agribusiness and Food Sufficiency. However, this may sound good, but this sub-sector of agriculture is not without its challenges. This has led to Burkina Faso receiving approval for 38 million euros for food security…
Is Green Energy Solution the Next Alternative?
This episode’s theme focuses on the Green Energy solution, an issue more than ever before taking centre stage as Global energy experts, climate activists and environmentalists advocate a just transition from traditional to eco-friendly sources. The desire is increasingly being…
The Dangers of Air Pollution on Human Health and Environment
This week on Enviroscope we are focusing on Air pollution and its impact on human health, biodiversity and the ecosystem. Also, Conservationists in Nigeria have welcomed the ban on single-use plastics and materials by the Lagos state government lament the…
Dangers of Excessive Use Of Chemicals (Pesticides and Herbicides)
Today’s package will bring you some well-known and documented side effects or consequences of the excessive use of chemicals in the form of pesticides, herbicides and composition in fertilisers. Meanwhile, the United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel…
Global Discussion in 2024 Centres on Environmental Governance
The global discussion in 2024 is expected to open packed with unfolding and developing events from 2023, says the World Economic Forum in its Global Risk Report for the year. Looking back at the events last year, plenty of developments…
Environmental Factors That will Shape 2024
On today’s package, 2024 in Focus, we will bring a few major pointers by experts from the previous year which we believe will shape discussion around issues on climate change within and outside the subregion. Now, are we talking about…
2023 Highlights of Some Significant Environmental Issues in the SAHEL
This is the last package of WADR’s environment program in the year 2023, highlighting some significant environmental issues in the last half of the year such as the remarkable resolution reached among countries of the Sahel to reduce the impact…
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