On October 4, 2025, Prof. Nana Ama Browne Klutse announced on Newsfile that the Ghana Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) intends to deploy copper-based nanoparticles to treat heavy metals in rivers ...

Estimated $2bn lost in missed taxes from environmentally destructive practice some blame on political corruption Felicity Nelson remembers her 17-day detention last September vividly. The 34-year-old ...

Multiple award-winning investigative journalist with the Multimedia Group, Erastus Asare Donkor, has expressed deep concern over the worsening state of Ghana’s river bodies due to illegal mining, ...

Eno Asabea Manu, a mother of two, sits wearily outside her small house in the central region of Ghana, waiting for the water to return to her tap – where water hasn’t flowed for weeks. When it does, ...

Ghana's urban population has more than tripled in the past three decades, from 4 million to nearly 14 million people. Competition for land in cities has increased among various land uses. These trends ...

As winter slowly approached in Russia’s Nizhny Novgorod region, the trees along the River Volga began to change colour (at the time of my visit). Their leaves turned bright red, orange and yellow, ...

Ghana's gold rush has sparked an environmental and public health crisis in parts of the country. Contamination caused by mining has led to soil readings in some areas that show up to 134 times the ...

Ghana’s largest power supplier, the Volta River Authority (VRA), announced it has secured funds to build two utility-scale PV plants in the Upper West Region from Germany’s government-owned ...