Environment – Page 2

Incorruptible body of Reverend Sister Wilhelmina four years after burial: Catholic bishop orders scientific investigation

Posted onMay 28, 2023March 6, 2024Leave a comment

Hundreds of people are daily, traveling to rural Gower, Missouri, to behold the body of Reverend Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster who died and was buried four years ago and yet the body, though not preserved, is still intact and is not Read More …

Continental drift: Africa splitting into two continents with a new ocean

Posted onMarch 23, 2023March 25, 2025Leave a comment

Africa, the second largest continent in the world today, is splitting into two continents to be separated by a sixth ocean. This will be in the next five to 10 million years. It has started as a giant rift or Read More …

Did the Universe evolve or was created?

Posted onFebruary 20, 2023February 23, 20251 Comment

Nicolaus Copernicus (1473 – 1543), a Polish Church cannon, in 1514 was the first to write and circulate discreetly, the arguments that the Earth is round, the Sun stationary and that all the planets rotate round the Sun. It was Read More …

Natural Disasters: The Mitigating Role of Science

Posted onJanuary 14, 2023January 17, 2025Leave a comment

Uncontrollable wildfire in Los Angeles, California, USA, in 2025. It has not rained for over two years in the Horn of Africa and millions of people are at the verge of starvation there. Flood, erosion, earthquake, tsunami, volcanic eruption, hurricane, Read More …

A case for nuclear electricity in Nigeria

Posted onDecember 25, 2022December 28, 2024Leave a comment

The most popular peaceful use of nuclear energy is, arguably, in electricity generation. Nigeria requires 25,000 to 30,000 mw of electricity for any meaningful economic development. Total output has been about 3,700 mw from total grid capacity of Read More …

Energy forever: World’s first diamond-encased Carbon14 battery

Posted onDecember 23, 2022December 24, 2024Leave a comment

Scientists in UK Atomic Energy Authority and University of Bristol have created the world’s first battery which can last thousands of years before running out of energy. They used Carbon 14 – the radioactive isotope of Carbon – with a Read More …

The Supermoon

Posted onNovember 15, 2022November 27, 20241 Comment

The Moon appears fuller and brighter when, in its elliptical orbit, it is getting closer to the Earth. When it is closest, it appears 14% bigger in size and 30% brighter – relative to its farthest position – and is Read More …

COP29 holds

Posted onNovember 11, 2022December 9, 2024Leave a comment

The 29th session of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change opened on 11 November, 2024, in Baku, Azerbaijan. COP29 discussed progress made since the last conference towards reducing global carbon dioxide and other Read More …

US GM mosquito control experiment

Posted onNovember 10, 2022November 16, 2024Leave a comment

The US has released 750 million genetically modified male mosquitoes into the wild in continuation of a biological control effort against the insect, especially in Florida Keys. The experiment covered 34,760 acres in the states of Florida and California from Read More …

Dr Yau Idris elected Chairperson, Forum of Nuclear Regulatory Bodies in Africa, FNRBA

Posted onOctober 23, 2022October 25, 2022Leave a comment

The Director-General of the Nigerian Nuclear Regulatory Authority, NNRA, Dr Yau Idris, has been elected Chairperson of the Forum of Nuclear Regulatory Bodies in Africa, FNRBA. The forum is an association of all nuclear regulatory bodies in Africa. He served Read More …