Mr Andrew Dunn, Country Director of Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) in Nigeria, says elephants are almost becoming extinct in Nigeria. Dunn made the disclosure in an interview with journalists in Calabar while commemorating the World Elephant Day. The World Elephant Day is an international annual event marked on August 12, […]
Enviroment
The six-decade space race to explore Mars has led to some 40 missions, at least half of which have been successful, and still the Red Planet inspires new adventures. A look back at some key Mars missions over the last 60 years: – 1960-1964: Soviet failures – At first, the […]
Conservationists have captured the first images of a group of rare Cross River gorillas with multiple babies in Mbe mountains, proof that the subspecies once feared to be extinct is reproducing amid protection efforts. Only around 300 Cross River gorillas were known to be alive at one point in the […]
Climate change and sea level rise are currently on track to wipe out half the world’s sandy beaches by 2100, researchers warned Monday. Even if humanity sharply reduces the fossil fuel pollution that drives global warming, more than a third of the planet’s sandy shorelines could disappear by then, crippling coastal tourism […]
