News headlines for “Environmental Issues”, page 873
AFRICA: Monitoring a Changing Climate
- Inter Press Service
The gathering environmental crisis presented by global warming makes effective weather information and prediction a matter of urgency. As Africa's farmers come to grips with adapting to climate change, it may be that the best way to equip them is to involve them directly in collecting the data.
MIDEAST: Gazans Gassed by Silent Killer
- Inter Press Service
'You feel very sleepy and dizzy. You put your head down and all you want to do is sleep. Everything feels very peaceful, you are not even aware what is happening and if there is no immediate intervention you are dead within minutes,' Enaam Abu Nada told IPS.
SOUTH ASIA: Water Shortage Calls for Second Look at Indus Treaty
- Inter Press Service
Climate change and the probability that a current water shortage would worsen may make constantly bickering neighbours, India and Pakistan, take a closer look at a 50-year-old treaty under which they share rivers originating from the Himalayas.
SENEGAL: Small-Scale Irrigation: Key to Rural Development
- Inter Press Service
Over the past four years, the Local Small-scale Irritation Project has spent more than $10.5 million U.S. dollars supporting rural communities in Senegal.
AFRICA: Land Grabs Continue as Elites Resist Regulation
- Inter Press Service
A year after the purchases of vast swathes of farm land in Africa first drew public attention, transactions remain as opaque as ever. Private companies are resisting a global code of conduct that would ensure transparency and local elites continue to benefit from deals that encourage corruption and increase food insecurity.
SOUTH AFRICA: Racist's Death Highlights Rural Tension
- Inter Press Service
Eugene Terre'Blanche, killed on his farm on Easter weekend, is catalysing racial tension in South Africa in death much as he did in his life.
ENVIRONMENT-NIGER: French State-Owned Company 'Poisoning' Poor
- Inter Press Service
Recent research by Greenpeace suggests that French state-owned company Areva’s public claims of decontamination of populated areas near uranium mines in Niger are false. High radio-activity persists in towns and rural areas near the mines, affecting some 80,000 people.
ENVIRONMENT-CHINA: Record Drought Exposes Water Woes
- Inter Press Service
A once-in-a-century drought in south-west China has sparked concern over how China, which has one-fifth of the world’s population but just 7 percent of its water, has managed its water supply and growing network of hydroelectric dams.
SOUTH AFRICA: Coal Plant Won't Promote Development, Say Groups
- Inter Press Service
As the World Bank approved a controversial three-billion-dollar loan for a coal-fired power plant in South Africa Thursday, both the details and the broader impacts of the loan continue to be criticised by community and environmental groups.
ECUADOR: Environmental Inspection in Yasuni Park
- Inter Press Service
Representatives of Ecuador's ombudsman's office and environmental groups are visiting the Yasuni National Park on Saturday, home to some of the world's last indigenous people still living in voluntary isolation, in order to verify reports of illegal activity by oil companies.
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