The Biden administration has announced more than $4 billion in Environmental Protection Act (EPA) grants to cut climate pollution across 30 states. The grants will be disbursed through the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) and are set to go to a total of 25 projects. The funds will be aimed at reducing greenhouse gas pollution from…
Prof. Babson Ajibade of the University of Cross River State (UNICROSS) has invented a BMV-6 Medical Ventilator which has been selected as the third-best innovation in Nigeria. It was selected among 108 innovations from across Nigeria. Of the 108 innovations from around Nigeria, the ten best were exhibited at the Academy’s prestigious Annual Technology Dinner,…
In the past week climate activists targeted two very different venues to send their message of doom, disrupting the PGA Tour’s Travelers Championship in Cromwell, Connecticut and vandalising the Stonehenge monument at Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England. Their defacement of Stonehenge could be considered relatively successful because no one was able to stop them. It’s…
Residents of Okpoama in Brass Local Government Area of Bayelsa State have butchered a whale that was washed off the seashore. CONVERSEER gathered that the incident happened on Wednesday morning when some of the residents woke up to see a whale, the largest animal in the world, struggling to get back to the sea after…
Mr Adekambi Adeyinka, a master’s student from the Department of Forestry and Wildlife, University of Calabar (UNICAL) has captured stunning footage of the world’s rarest great ape, the Cross River Gorillas in the Afi Wildlife Sanctuary. This was disclosed by Adeyinka in an interview with journalists on Wednesday, 19th June 2024, in Calabar while reacting…
As we all know, in addition to a black hole with a mass of 4 million times that of the sun, the centre of the Milky Way is also an incredibly dense star-gathering area. The density of stars is about the same as that of globular star clusters. There are an average of 2 stars…
By Frank Ulom The Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE), Calabar Branch, is seeking the collaboration with Cross River State Government (CRSG) to tackle gully erosion in the state using cable concrete – one of the latest innovations used across the world. According to the engineers, the cable concrete or concrete mattress is cost-effective, long-lasting, easy…
Mark Nappi, Boeing’s Starliner project manager, said that the company is fully focused on NASA’s first manned mission to send NASA astronauts into space, and may allow private spaceflight in the future. Astronauts are flying on the Starliner spacecraft to carry out space exploration missions, but currently, the focus is still on NASA’s manned space…
Thanks to new spacecraft, telescopes, and cosmic chance, the total solar eclipse in April looks to be a scientific gold mine. The sun should be more active with the possibility of spectacular plasma bursts, and the moon will be particularly near to Earth, resulting in an extended and intense period of darkness. Next is the…
I By Chris Njoku The Nigerian Conservation Foundation, NCF has disclosed that only four per cent of the nation’s forest cover was left. The disclosure was made by Dr Joseph Onoja, Director General of the Foundation on Saturday in Calabar during a One-Day Sensitisation Programme on the adverse effect of unsustainable forest activities in Cross…
