Climate change is a threat to human societies and natural ecosystems, yet public opinion research finds that public awareness and concern vary greatly. Here, using an unprecedented survey of 119 countries, we determine the relative influence of socio-demographic characteristics, geography, perceived well-being, and beliefs on public climate change awareness and risk perceptions at national scales. Worldwide, educational attainment is the single strongest predictor of climate change awareness.

Reforming fossil fuel subsidies could free up enough funds to finance universal access to water, sanitation, and electricity in many countries, as well as helping to cut global greenhouse-gas emissions.

The new water and sanitation development goal must include measurable targets, to improve the lives of those without water or access to a safe toilet

Accra — More than 7 500 Ghanaian children die as a result of unsafe drinking water and poor sanitation every year, it has emerged.

Lamu county has approved a Sh20billion wind power project at Baharini area in Mpeketoni.

Rwanda is now ahead of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in the Great Lakes Region in producing major minerals, according to iTSCi, a conflict minerals traceability program.Rwanda produces

In a startling admission, the UK authorities have informed Amnesty International that they do not have the tools, resources or expertise to investigate whether multinational commodities giant Trafi

Diseases that could be easily prevented and controlled by 2020 have already been identified.

Fourteen people died of diarrhoea countrywide during the first week of this month, Ministry of Health and Child Care said yesterday.

The Gambia government on Tuesday reached an agreement with an Italian company, GPM Corporation Limited, for the construction of a fence at Bakoteh dump site, the main waste dumping site in the Grea

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