Across Ghana, taps are running but confidence is drying up. As illegal mining (galamsey) continues to ravage the country’s major river basins, the Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL) is battling a ...

Ghana joined the world to celebrate World Rivers Day, highlighting the crucial role rivers play in human survival and the need for collective action to protect water bodies. The World River Day is a ...

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, ...

Opinion - Countries such as South Korea, Japan, Greece, Mexico, and Croatia are struggling to control the high influx of tourists flooding their countries because of the environmental degradation and ...

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 ...

Ghana, a nation endowed with significant ecological wealth, from forest reserves of the Western and Eastern Regions to mineral-laden lands in Ashanti, now finds itself increasingly vulnerable to the ...

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Every year, Ghana honours its farmers with speeches, parades, and awards. But beneath the ceremony lies an uncomfortable truth: we are celebrating agriculture while destroying the very foundations ...

In towns and villages across Ghana, a quiet problem is growing beneath our feet. Galamsey, the illegal and unregulated mining of gold, is slowly damaging ...

Illegal gold mining is growing in Ghana, one of the world's top gold producers. A weakening economy and high unemployment have pushed thousands into illegal mining in search of elusive wealth. But the ...

In March, Ghanaian-British athlete Yvette Tetteh announced her commitment to swim 450 kilometers down the Volta River, a major river system in Ghana. The activist and agribusiness leader swam under ...