Tag Archives: POLLUTION

Yvette Tetteh, an activist from Ghana, is attempting to swim a 450km along the Volta River in what she hopes will bring some attention to a form of pollution in the water that has been overlooked by many, and for many years. If successful, she hopes that the continuous textile’s …

The Chief of Yawhima in the Sunyani East Constituency of the Bono Region has ordered the shutdown of Yawhima SDA Primary School over dust pollution emanating from the construction of the road from the area to Chira. According to the chief, the pollution levels due to the construction site is …

The devastating effects of the menace of illegal small-scale mining, otherwise known as galamsey, have been seen across various parts of the country. Till now, we have been seeing how galamsey has degraded farmlands and polluted inland water bodies across the Ashanti, Eastern, Western and Bono regions. Now the pollution …

What do you think of when you think of noise pollution? In a country such as Ghana, one of the first things that may come to mind may perhaps be the loudspeakers of your neighborhood church or mosque, or perhaps the near-perpetual lack of quiet at the more central lorry …

Dr. Rauf Alhassan, a lecturer at the University of Environment and Sustainable Development’s (UESD) Department of Water Resources and Sustainable Development, has stressed the importance of water to humanity’s long-term survival. According to him, climate change, rapid population growth, urbanisation, and exploitation of water for competing economic activities such as …

Penises are shrinking and genitals becoming malformed because of pollution, an environmental scientist has warned in a new book detailing the challenges facing human reproduction. Dr Shanna Swan writes that humanity is facing an “existential crisis” in fertility rates as a result of phthalates, a chemical used when manufacturing plastics …