Harvests of some of the world's most important food crops could fall by as much as a third in some crucial parts of the planet as a result of climate change, scientists are warning. The decline comes at a time when there is an urgent need to raise yields to feed as growing, global, population.

Eritrea, a country of 3.5 million people, is infested with about two million mines and units of unexploded ordnance (UXO), Andebrhan Weldegiorgis, the commissioner for coordination with the UN peacekeeping mission, has told the UN General Assembly in New York.

The House of Assembly of Bayelsa State, southeastern Nigeria, has condemned the proposed dredging of the River Niger by the federal government. In a resolution, the state house members said the dredging would cause negative environmental and ecological effects to riverine communities, vanguard newspaper reported on Monday.

The bushmeat on which the villagers in Buanchor in Nigeria used to grow fat is all but gone.

The precautionary principle has become an increasingly important component of environmental policy, considered by the European Union to be a general principle of international law. As the precautionary principle has gained prominence, policy analysts have devoted increasing attention to the issue of implementation. Nevertheless, the practical implications of the principle remain unclear.

Petchkovsky's engagement in an art project with a social content, involving a wide range of public, not only the art educated elite, had a fantastic response. The project was specially designed in the context of the world conference against racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance.

The demands of past debt on the democratic government of Nigeria is handicapping its capacity to resolve growing internal social and ethnic tensions, says Jubilee Plus, in a new report.

Food Policy Statement 34 from the International Food Policy Research Institute, based on the recently released book of the same title, edited by Keijiro Otsuka and Frank Place. The paper compares the evolution of land-tenure systems and their roles in protecting
the environment in Asia and Africa.

Rapid increases in water use and degradation of water quality are putting extreme pressures on this vital resource. This set of fourteen briefs recommends a number of strategies for dealing with the associated
challenges.

Some 400 representatives of security forces, state bodies and civil society in Gabu, eastern Guinea-Bissau, have recommended the formation of a commission to monitor the observance of human rights in the area.

In Nigeria at present the destruction of natural habitats continues apace, resulting in the depletion of the country's biodiversity. In Nigeria today a large population resides and works in rural areas. These rural dwellers are a major contributor to forest depletion. Agriculture is dominant in these areas. It has the greatest concentration of poverty, landless workers, small tenant farmers, small farm owners, the rural unemployed, and the poor of the poor in the Nation. As a result of the poverty level in these areas, biodiversity provides for 90% of their needs, a fact which plays a major role in the destruction and depletion of native flora and fauna.

In the last decade, there has been an explosion of fossil finds of our earliest human ancestors - revealing characteristics that might force a re-interpretation of our earliest ancestry.

The Water service of the Food and Agriculture Organization has developed and compiled a package of training material for the development and implementation of Participatory Training & Extension Programme in Farmers' Water Management. It is in particular relevant to assist communal water users' groups in assuming O&M responsibilities and to give guidance to farmers in adopting efficient water control technologies.

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Scientists can coax tiny metal particles to self-assemble into microscopic wires that conduct electricity and repair themselves, new research reveals. This fascinating report in Scientific American deserves a read.

A bill to ban the import of "conflict diamonds"--those mined illegally by guerrilla groups in Africa--has gained new momentum in the United States Congress since Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network has been tied to the trade.

Major environmental groups reacted with caution to a Climate Change agreement reached this weekend in Marrakech under which 170 countries pledged to cut back "greenhouse gas" emissions by 2012.

The most outstanding sight in the tiny fishing village of Batan in southern Nigeria, is a 10-metre-high flame that burns continuously from a vertical pipe at the edge of one of the many facilities the Shell oil company has in the Niger Delta.

Internationally respected scientists have warned that farmers in the region face particular pressures with growing cash crops - vital for many to supplement subsistence food crops - as a result of global warming in the next few decades, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) warned on Thursday, 8 November.

Gerhart Baum, the Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Sudan, has called for documentation to verify how the Sudanese government uses its oil revenues in a report discussed at the UN General Assembly.