Global Issues News Headlines for “Climate Change and Global Warming”

Advocates Cheer Tightening of Extractives Transparency Standards:

2013-05-23T21:39:25-07:00

WASHINGTON, May 23 (IPS) - Development groups and corruption watchdogs are applauding landmark new standards adopted Wednesday by an international initiative focused on ensuring greater transparency among oil and mining companies operating particularly in developing countries.

Indian Gov’t on Collision Course With Civil Society:

2013-05-23T19:21:07-07:00

NEW DELHI, May 23 (IPS) - For years India's pro-liberalisation, Congress party-led coalition government chafed at civil society groups getting in the way of grand plans to boost growth through the setting up of mega nuclear power parks, opening up the vast mineral-rich tribal lands to foreign investment and selling off public assets.

Water Debt and Leaks Plague the Poor:

2013-05-23T05:42:50-07:00

CAPE TOWN, South Africa, May 23 (IPS) - Nokuzola Bulana has a problem with leaks. The water that drips from the pipes of the toilet outside her home in Khayelitsha, a large semi-informal township on the fringes of Cape Town, South Africa goes to waste and drives up her water bill.

Insects, from Delicacy to Tool against Hunger:

2013-05-22T22:09:48-07:00

MEXICO CITY, May 22 (IPS) - The Food and Agriculture Organisation's recommendation to consider using edible insects as a food source to combat hunger may have particular repercussions in Colombia and Mexico, two Latin American countries that have a tradition of eating insects and a high degree of biodiversity.

Fresh Water “More Precious Than Gold” in Bangladesh:

2013-05-22T18:32:13-07:00

CHAPAINAWABGANJ, Bangladesh, May 22 (IPS) - Fahima Begum rises each morning at dawn and walks two kilometres to a small pond, the nearest source of fresh water. On her way she passes the rusty old hand-pumped tube well that used to supply water to her village in Bangladesh's arid Barind region until the water table here dropped out of reach.

Eating Peas and Greens to Maximise Water Usage:

2013-05-22T14:44:32-07:00

NAIROBI, May 22 (IPS) - Amid warnings that Kenya's agricultural water use is surpassing sustainable levels and adversely affecting food security, biodiversity researchers say that agrobiodiversity should be considered as a vital tool to combat this.

Water Flows Again in the Valley:

2013-05-22T13:27:31-07:00

KARACHI, May 22 (IPS) - Staring out at his golden wheat field with satisfaction, 50-year old Alamgir Akbar says with a sigh of relief: "We've had a good crop this season."

U.S. Strategy on Water, Development a “Major Advance”:

2013-05-22T00:43:14-07:00

WASHINGTON, May 22 (IPS) - U.S. officials Tuesday formally unveiled the government's first comprehensive strategy aimed at integrating water into all U.S. development funding and programmes, a step long urged by advocates and development experts.

Stressed Ecosystems Leaving Humanity High and Dry:

2013-05-21T21:46:23-07:00

UXBRIDGE, Canada, May 21 (IPS) - Everyone knows water is life. Far too few understand the role of trees, plants and other living things in ensuring we have clean, fresh water.

Organic Cooperative Proves that Agriculture Can Prosper in Cuba:

2013-05-21T20:28:44-07:00

HAVANA, May 21 (IPS) - "The people are the only thing that matters," says agronomist Miguel Ángel Salcines, who then goes on to list a series of other "secondary" factors that have turned Vivero Alamar, an urban farm on the outskirts of the Cuban capital, into a rare success story in the country's depressed agricultural sector.