Global IssuesNews headlines for “Environmental Issues”
Food Systems Worsen Diets, Health
- Inter Press Service
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Jan 21 (IPS) - Corporate-dominated food systems are responsible for widespread but still spreading malnutrition and ill health. Poor diets worsen non-communicable diseases (NCDs), now costing over eight trillion dollars yearly!
Climate emergency: 2025 declared international year of glaciers
- UN News
As glaciers disappear at an alarming rate due to climate change, the UN General Assembly has declared 2025 the International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation (IYGP).
Still Hopes for a Future Plastic Treaty - But it Won’t be Easy
- Inter Press Service
KATHMANDU, Nepal, Jan 20 (IPS) - The last few weeks of 2024 were a disappointment for those who strongly believed that planet Earth is in need of bold actions.
First, there were the frustration stemming from what could be defined at minimum as unconvincing outcomes of both COP 16 on Biodiversity and COP 29 on Climate.
Pemba’s Woman Salt Farmers Forge Livelihoods Amid Climate Woes
- Inter Press Service
PEMBA, Tanzania, Jan 20 (IPS) - As the cool morning breeze sweeps across the Indian Ocean beach in Tanzania’s Pemba archipelago, Salma Mahmoud Ali begins her day. With her brightly coloured Kikoi cinched tightly around her waist and a dark blue scarf framing her face, she walks barefoot toward her salt ponds. The humid air hangs, but Ali wades through ankle-deep water with courage.
Photo Essay: Kashmir's Ingenious Climate-Responsive Architecture.
- Inter Press Service
SRINAGAR, India, Jan 20 (IPS) - India's average temperature has risen by 0.7°C since 1901, bringing more frequent and intense heat waves, erratic rainfall patterns, and a marked decline in monsoon consistency since the 1950s.
Africa & Europe Must Join Forces to Protect Our Ocean by Pressing Pause on Deep Sea Mining
- Inter Press Service
DAVOS, Switzerland, Jan 17 (IPS) - Deep-sea mining may not be on the official agenda next week at the World Economic Forum in Davos (January 20-24), but restoring public trust in international cooperation is.
Trillions in Dirty Money: How Hidden Loopholes Fuel Corruption and Inequality
- Inter Press Service
MADRID, Jan 16 (IPS) - It is no longer a secret that at major global summits there are more lobbyists than official delegates. There, they participate as ‘guests,’ and most of them work for big business corporations. Their goal? To deter the adoption of policies that conflict with their employers’ interests.
Farmer’s Bill: A Reprieve for U.S. Farmers Affected By PFAS
- Inter Press Service
SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA, US, Jan 16 (IPS) - The use of fertilizers has been introduced in society to enrich soil and supply high-grade harvests for centuries. As time went on, humans have managed to develop new ways to reform this operation, and as such, have formed a lessened health risk fertilizer called “biosolids”.
The Davos Disconnect
- Inter Press Service
GEBZE, Türkiye, Jan 15 (IPS) - "It was the best of times; it was the worst of times." Charles Dickens is more relevant today than ever.
The wealthy and powerful are meeting again this year in glamorous Davos, at an invitation-only event. They arrive in chartered aircraft and private jets to speak about our warming climate, among other global concerns.
Laureates Call For Moonshot Innovation Effort to Avert Hunger Catastrophe
- Inter Press Service
BULAWAYO, Jan 14 (IPS) - Neglected indigenous crops, rich in nutrition and resilient to climate change, are key to tackling global hunger only if governments invest in research and development (R&D) to tap the potential of such innovations.
Powered by 
and 