http://www.globalissues.org/news/topic/168 2010-03-16T00:26:40-07:00 Global Issues Inter Press Service http://www.globalissues.org/i/globalissues.png http://www.globalissues.org/i/globalissues/logo-feed.jpg © Inter Press Servicehttp://www.globalissues.org/news/2010/03/15/48482010-03-15T00:00:00-07:00

<p>Seemingly unstoppable development has made a mockery of the protected status of this southern Indian region, which houses vast biodiversity and some of the finest examples of moist deciduous and tropical forests.</p>

http://www.globalissues.org/news/2010/03/12/48382010-03-12T00:00:00-08:00

<p>A four-year-old landmark law that was supposed to bring profound changes in the lives of India’s tribal and forest-dwelling peoples has failed to deliver on that promise. </p>

http://www.globalissues.org/news/2010/03/12/48322010-03-12T00:00:00-08:00

<p>As climate change transforms the acidity and oxygen levels of the world's waters with devastating effects for some marine species, others are facing an even more immediate threat from human consumption.</p>

http://www.globalissues.org/news/2010/03/11/48122010-03-11T00:00:00-08:00

<p>Battling the pain from a boil on his left thigh, 45-year-old Inggit Tukino pulled his two-wheeled cart through the overcrowded alleys of a slum in Rawabebek, Penjaringan hamlet in here North Jakarta.</p>

http://www.globalissues.org/news/2010/03/10/48072010-03-10T00:00:00-08:00

<p>'Nature is wise, and if we take the time to observe it, we can learn so much' is the underlying philosophy of a number of innovative programmes being carried out in Uruguayan schools that are using gardens as a teaching resource, explained Edith Moraes, director of the national Primary Education Board.</p>

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<p>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.</p>

http://www.globalissues.org/news/2010/03/09/47992010-03-09T00:00:00-08:00

<p>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.</p>

http://www.globalissues.org/news/2010/03/09/47982010-03-09T00:00:00-08:00

<p>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.</p>

http://www.globalissues.org/news/2010/03/09/47972010-03-09T00:00:00-08:00

<p>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. </p>

http://www.globalissues.org/news/2010/03/09/47952010-03-09T00:00:00-08:00

<p>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.</p>