A new report highlighting the damaging effects of climate change on West Africa’s Volta River basin was released at the 6th Africa Agriculture Science Week in Accra, Ghana. The study was performed by ...

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 ...

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 has many rivers, streams and other water bodies. River Volta remains one of the largest and is perhaps the most important, powering Ghana’s biggest hydroelectric power plant, the Akosombo Dam.

By Solomon Gumah, GNA Tamale, Dec 13, GNA – A day’s stakeholders’ forum to validate research findings on how mining especially illegal mining was adversely affecting major water bodies across the ...

General News Court grants injunction against dredging activities on Lower Volta River On Dec 21, 2022 A Sogakope High Court has granted an interim injunction against the Lower Volta Dredging ...

The Water Resources Commission says the Volta River is safe for domestic and industrial use. The Commission has, however, cautioned that annual floods in the Volta river is a problem. Reacting to this ...

The steamy banks of Ghana’s crocodile-infested Volta River seemed an unlikely place to make a major test of Western investment faith and prospects in the new, fiercely nationalist countries of Africa, ...

Mr Kobena Mensah Woyome, Member of Parliament (MP) for South Tongu, has called on the Ministry of Water Resources and the Volta River Authority (VRA) to take a critical look at the problem of aquatic ...

West Africa's Volta River Basin, home to 24 million people in six countries, will be badly hit by climate change, as dwindling water flows hit hydro-electric supplies and irrigation, scientists warned ...

One of the earliest European explorers of West Africa, Mungo Park, suggested that the lower reaches of the Volta River in what is now Ghana would be an excellent site for a dam and accompanying Volta ...