Invasive Typha grass is a significant contributing factor to the reduction and rerouting of water flow in parts of the Hadeija-Nguru wetlands in Yobe state. The negative changes in water flow are associated with the crisis between herders and farmers in the region as it faces large-scale desertification.
Photo by Murtala Abdullahi
The complexities of climate change and its associated jargon can prove difficult to digest.
TheCable’s quick climate facts will help demystify these concepts through easy-to-understand and straight-to-the-point explanations.
Here are some to keep at the tip of your fingers:
- A report by the State of the Nigerian Environment (STONE) says about 179 million Nigerians live in unclean environments.
- The organisation said the annual cleanliness performance index ranked Akwa Ibom and Abuja as the cleanest in Nigeria.
- The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) says more than 85 percent of wetlands present in 1700 had been lost by 2000.
- IPBES said most of the wetlands were drained to make way for development, farming or other productive uses.
- IPBES added that wetlands are disappearing three times faster than forests, posing an existential threat for hundreds of thousands of animal and plant species.
- The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says agricultural productivity growth in Africa has been reduced by 34 percent since 1961 due to climate change.
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