Bayelsa crude oil poisoning report brings little or no hope
Earlier this month, a fisherman reported oil leaking from an old wellhead at Okpoama, in the southern part of Nigeria’s Bayelsa state. The Niger...
Shell, Eni blamed as high levels of toxins found in humans, fish, crabs in Bayelsa
By Ashoka Mukpo
Oil and gas companies, led by Shell, Eni, Chevron, Total and ExxonMobil, spilled 110,000 barrels of oil into Nigeria’s Bayelsa state over...
Nigerians lose to Shell as UK Supreme Court rules on 2011 oil spill
The UK Supreme Court has ruled that Nigerian claimants missed a six-year deadline to sue Shell over a 2011 offshore oil spill.
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New study of chimps suggests when humans left trees
Chimpanzees tend to sleep more on the ground than previously thought, a behavior that has implications for their conservation and could help explain how...
0.36% of Nigeria becoming desert yearly, driving food crisis
Nigeria is losing about 0.35% of its total land area to desertification each year, a reality that is increasingly reducing the country’s ability to...