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INVESTIGATION: Gas flares, poisoned lives, regulatory failures in Nigeria’s oil fields

From disappearing fish in Akwa Ibom to polluted rainwater in Bayelsa, communities living beside Nigeria's oil facilities are confronting the human consequences of methane, a potent but large...

INVESTIGATION: Gas flares, poisoned lives, regulatory failures in Nigeria’s oil fields

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From disappearing fish in Akwa Ibom to polluted rainwater in Bayelsa, communities living beside Nigeria's oil facilities are confronting the human consequences of methane, a potent but large...

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