News headlines for “Nature and Animal Conservation”, page 2

  1. Managing Transboundary Aquifers for Peace

    - Inter Press Service

    PRETORIA, South Africa, Mar 20 (IPS) - Like surface waters, groundwater resources frequently cross international boundaries, potentially igniting disputes among nations that rely on this essential resource. Disagreements over shared groundwater can arise from various issues, such as inequitable resource distribution, competing water needs and economic dependencies, governance challenges, and the varying effects of climate change on water availability.

  2. Biogas Is Key to Harmony Between Agribusiness and Environment in El Salvador - VIDEO

    - Inter Press Service

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    SAN MIGUEL, El Salvador, Mar 20 (IPS) - Faced with the recurring problem of environmental pollution caused by the poultry industry in rural communities in El Salvador, some companies are responding by producing biogas from organic waste from their chicken farms and processing plants, and using the gas to generate clean electricity.

  3. How A Program in Ghana to Create Green Jobs Can Be a Lesson for US Mayors & Across the Globe

    - Inter Press Service

    ACCRA / NEW YORK, Mar 19 (IPS) - For the past eight years, Chiso has collected waste as part of Accra’s informal waste management sector. Since arriving in Ghana from Nigeria, he has earned enough to allow him and his family to survive, but saving money has been nearly impossible.

  4. Exploring New Depths: NF-POGO Centre of Excellence Driving Innovative, Diverse Ocean Observation

    - Inter Press Service

    DOMINICA, Mar 19 (IPS) - Picture yourself as an early-career ocean researcher. You have the opportunity to be at sea in addition to learning on campus. Through cutting-edge technology and immersive facilities, you experience the most realistic ocean exploration scenarios, including braving extreme cold and harsh environments. That’s the experience at the Launch, a 'living lab' at the Marine Institute of Memorial University in Newfoundland and Labrador, located on the east coast of Canada. It’s an experience meant to prepare you for the real-world complexities of the type of ocean research needed to tackle urgent global issues like climate change.

  5. How Women in Ahmedabad Slums Are Beating Back Climate’s Deadly Heat

    - Inter Press Service

    AHMEDABAD, India, Mar 18 (IPS) - Women in Ahmedabad slums work from home at tailoring, embroidery, kite-making, snack-making, or running grocery shops, micro-retailing vegetables and flowers, with little respite from the brutal heat waves that have been steadily worsening. Until now…Seema Mali is desperate. She has no defences against this changing climate’s brutal heat. Mali makes fresh flower garland the whole year, but her summer income has been plummeting by 30 percent over the last 8–10 years due to the extreme heat.

  6. Beekeeping Offers Opportunity to Zimbabwean Farming Communities

    - Inter Press Service

    CHIMANIMANI, Zimbabwe, Mar 15 (IPS) - Honeybees quickly react with a sharp and loud buzz sound as beekeeper Tanyaradzwa Kanangira opens one of the wooden horizontal Kenyan top bar hives near a stream in a thick forest in Chimanimani, 412 kilometres from Zimbabwe’s capital, Harare.

  7. The Ups and Downs of Control of Transgenic Crops in Mexico

    - Inter Press Service

    MEXICO CITY, Mar 14 (IPS) - Mexico has taken important steps to protect native corn, even standing up to its largest trading partner, the United States, to do so. But the lack of a comprehensive legal framework in its policy towards genetically modified crops allows authorizations for other transgenic crops.

  8. Brazil's Biofuel Potential Set to Expand Thanks to Sustainable Aviation Fuel

    - Inter Press Service

    RIO DE JANEIRO, Mar 13 (IPS) - Brazil is counting on biofuels to assert itself as an energy powerhouse in the near future, as a decisive supplier of low-carbon jet fuel, a requirement of the climate crisis.

  9. LPG, a Useful Transitional Fuel for the UN’s Clean Cooking Effort

    - Inter Press Service

    Mar 13 (IPS) - One of the key efforts under the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals is to provide poor households with access to clean cooking technologies to replace, in particular, the burning of solid biomass (e.g.fuelwood and charcoal) in traditional open stoves that kills millions of women and children.

  10. Pollution a Threat To Our Groundwater Resources

    - Inter Press Service

    PRETORIA, South Africa, Mar 12 (IPS) - Groundwater pollution significantly affects the prevalence of waterborne diseases. This form of pollution occurs when hazardous substances, such as pathogens, chemicals, and heavy metals, seep into underground aquifers, the primary source of drinking water for approximately 70% of the 250 million people living in the SADC region.

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