Credit: energepic.com from Pexels Millions of women who work in the fisheries industry are being left behind as technologies develop to counter the effects of climate change and economic pressures. New research led by the University of East Anglia (UEA) looks specifically at post-harvest fisheries and aquaculture, where women constitute 50% of the total workforce.
Lagos State Waste Management Authority (LAWMA) staff cleans up piled up waste from the road side at Ikoyi in Lagos on January 2024. Negotiators from 175 countries are meeting from Tuesday in Canada to nail down a binding global treaty to end plastic pollution with many sticking points to be resolved five months after the
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Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Over-fertilized waterways, impoverished soils: the use of phosphorous in agriculture is creating a dilemma, and it all began thousands of years ago. This has been verified by an analysis published in Global and Planetary Change. It is well known that phosphorous from agricultural fertilization and wastewater is harmful to lakes. But