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Environmental issues in the Niger Delta are caused by its petroleum industry. The delta covers 20,000 km2 (7,700 sq mi) within wetlands of 70,000 km2 (27...

The Niger Delta is the delta of the Niger River sitting directly on the Gulf of Guinea on the Atlantic Ocean in Nigeria. It is located within nine coastal...

The current conflict in the Niger Delta first arose in the early 1990s over tensions between foreign oil corporations and a number of the Niger Delta's...

and the government, it led to repression of the local community. The company has been responsible for some significant oil spills in the Niger delta, and...

The Niger Delta Basin, also referred to as the Niger Delta province, is an extensional rift basin located in the Niger Delta and the Gulf of Guinea on...

mangrove forests in the coastal region of the Niger Delta. Considered one of the most ecologically sensitive regions in the world, the Niger Delta mangrove forest...

Niger delta: 'Nowhere and no one has escaped' | Oil spills | The Guardian". amp.theguardian.com. Retrieved 26 February 2022. "Shell oil spills in the...

2000, with the sole mandate of developing the oil-rich Niger Delta region of Nigeria. In September 2008, President Umaru Yar'Adua announced the formation...

offshore oil spills". Reuters. Retrieved 20 January 2014. "PHOTONEWS: ExxonMobil Oil Spills In Nigeria's Niger Delta". Sahara Reporters. Archived from the original...

The term is usually given to marine oil spills, where oil is released into the ocean or coastal waters, but spills may also occur on land. Oil spills...

pollution stemming from oil spills. During the 20th century, demanding a new, majority-Ijaw state to be drawn in the Niger Delta Region became common. Between...

list of oil spills that have occurred throughout the world and spill(s) that are currently ongoing. Quantities are measured in tonnes of crude oil with one...

Nigeria is the second largest oil and gas producer in Africa (after Angola). Crude oil from the Niger Delta basin comes in two types: light, and comparatively...

Jeta Amata, and narrates the story of a Niger Delta community's struggle against their government and a multi-national oil corporation to save their...

Lago Agrio oil field 2012–2014 Romanian protests against shale gas Environmental issues in the Niger Delta Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People...

another Nigerian oil disaster". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 6 July 2023. "Spotlighting oil majors' 'ecocide' of Niger Delta: Q&A with Michael...

The Niger Delta swamp forests is a tropical moist forest ecoregion in southern Nigeria. It consists of freshwater swamp forests in the Niger Delta of the...

combined oil spills, totalling 28,003 barrels of oil spewed into the environment. The Niger Delta region has solely experienced more than 12,000 oil spill occurrences...

oil field on the Niger Delta and began oil production in 1958. In a 15-year period from 1976 to 1991 there were reportedly 2,976 oil spills of about 2.1...

influx of oil pipeline sabotage in the Niger Delta, oil spills have “devastated mangroves, contaminated soil and groundwater, destroyed the fish habitat...