News headlines for “Environmental Issues”, page 874
MALI: Shea Production Vital to Women's Incomes
- Inter Press Service
Across the semi-arid Sahel region of West Africa, the shea tree prized by women, who produce a butter from its nuts that is a key ingredient in food and cosmetics. However, drought and diseases threaten this source of income.
CARIBBEAN: Final Throes for Jamaica's 'Hippie Paradise'?
- Inter Press Service
For centuries, Negril, a seven-mile stretch of white sand beach on the western tip of Jamaica, was cut off from the rest of the island by bad roads and a large swamp.
Q&A: Why Poorest African Countries Should Not Sign the EPAs
- Inter Press Service
It is a 'million dollar question' why African least developed countries (LDCs) would enter into economic partnership agreements (EPAs) with the EU as what remains of especially their agricultural markets will be overrun with subsidised European produce.
SOUTH AMERICA: Clear Water - Mercosur's Underground Treasure
- Inter Press Service
Invisible beneath a vast area of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay, the Guaraní Aquifer is one of the world's largest reserves of freshwater. Despite supplying water to millions of people, it is neither contaminated nor overexploited.
ARGENTINA: Sweeping the (Garbage) Problem Under the Rug
- Inter Press Service
To live up to the 'Zero Garbage' law that went into effect in 2006, the volume of waste ending up in landfills in the Argentine capital was to be significantly reduced every year, with the ultimate aim of eradicating landfills by 2020. But environmentalists are skeptical that the goal will be reached.
Q&A: 'EPAs Will Undermine Democracy in Africa'
- Inter Press Service
The current course of the talks on economic partnership agreements (EPAs) is particularly destructive for low income African countries and may contract democratic space in such countries even further.
PERU: Miners Call Off Protests for Talks; Six Killed in Clashes
- Inter Press Service
In response to a government promise to negotiate, small-scale gold miners in southern Peru temporarily called off protests Wednesday in which six people were killed and as many as 30 injured when the police attempted to clear a roadblock.
URUGUAY: Fighting Climate Change from the Countryside
- Inter Press Service
'We would get up and go to bed every day looking up at the sky, hoping for something to fall, but nothing happened, not even a drop fell,' says María Inés Queiros, who makes artisanal cheese in the southern Uruguayan province of San José.
ENVIRONMENT: Forests at a Climate Crossroads
- Inter Press Service
Billions of dollars are being mobilised to protect and increase the world's forests under a climate protection mechanism known as REDD (Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation). But many experts are unsure that it will work, and some fear it could end in disaster.
WATER: Swazi Village Gets a Self-Sustaining Water Supply
- Inter Press Service
No one loves the bill collector, and Sifiso Shongwe gets a chilly welcome as he goes from household to household collecting money for Maphilingo's community water scheme.
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