Global Issues News Headlines for “Environmental Issues”

Tanzania: Weather Changes Turn Farming into Gamble with Nature

2010-03-10T00:00:00-08:00

Changes in weather patterns have turned agriculture into a gamble with nature for Tanzanian farmers. Prolonged droughts and floods have made the lives of small-scale farmers, who don’t have access to irrigation, extremely difficult.

Finance: Self-Policing of Extractive Industries a 'Dismal' Failure

2010-03-09T00:00:00-08:00

An international initiative that seeks to reform how governments profit from their natural resources should not reduce its existing standards of membership solely because candidate countries have been reluctant or incapable of meeting them, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Tuesday.

Rights: 'Famine Marriages' Just One Byproduct of Climate Change

2010-03-09T00:00:00-08:00

The negative fallout from climate change is having a devastatingly lopsided impact on women compared to men, from higher death rates during natural disasters to heavier household and care burdens.

Environment-Uganda: Landslides and floods - Experts Warn Worst is Yet to Come

2010-03-09T00:00:00-08:00

Fourteen-year-old Isaac Wadyegere of Bundesi village in Bududa district woke up to a rainy and chilly Monday morning and went to school as usual. But Mar. 1 was not a usual day in Bududa district in eastern Uganda. When he heard the sound of rocks and soil tumbling down Mountain Elgon on a path to destroy part of his school, Wadyegere, along with other pupils, fled home.

Ecuador: Avatar Downfall a Blow for Indigenous Communities

2010-03-09T00:00:00-08:00

Science fiction blockbuster Avatar was the big loser in the Oscar awards ceremony - not only a blow for director James Cameron but also seen as a symbolic reverse in the struggle to recover Amazon rainforest areas in Ecuador from the effects of oil pollution.

Peru: Suspension of Mining Operation Merely a Placebo

2010-03-09T00:00:00-08:00

Although the Peruvian government reported that it had suspended the exploration activities of the Afrodita mining company in the country's northern Amazon jungle region to avoid further protests by local indigenous people, officials took no actual steps to bring the firm's work to a halt.

Environment: Violent Backlash Against Climate Scientists

2010-03-09T00:00:00-08:00

Climate change science has come under full-scale attack in a last-ditch effort to delay or prevent action by the U.S. government against global warming, experts warn.

Malawi: Patrilineal Inheritance Prevents Women’s Access to Land

2010-03-09T00:00:00-08:00

Mercy Gondwe, 51, from Rumphi in northern Malawi, was married for 34 years. When her husband died in 2008, she assumed she would inherit the land they had been cultivating together since they got married. But this was not the case.

Development-Sri Lanka: Water Woes Fall on Women’s Shoulders

2010-03-08T00:00:00-08:00

As a wife of a rice farmer and mother of two children aged nine and two, Sanjeevani Bandara’s days are packed with chores. Yet while she used to be able to keep up with all she has to do in a day, this Sri Lankan mother now finds herself struggling to accomplish even the most basic tasks.

Environment-Mexico: Green Areas to the Highest Bidder

2010-03-08T00:00:00-08:00

Activists in Mexico complain that the deforestation threatening the environmental health of Mexico has been accentuated by the granting of public areas to private companies.