News headlines for “Environmental Issues”, page 876
EAST EUROPE: Organic Farming Blossoms
- Inter Press Service
Eastern Europe's organic food industry is mushrooming as it brushes off the effects of the global recession, and more consumers in the region turn to healthier foods.
UGANDA: NGOs Judging Oil Palm on Hearsay, Says U.N.
- Inter Press Service
Non-governmental organisations (NGOs) are guilty of judging a palm oil project in Uganda on innuendo rather than its merits, the United Nations poverty agency supporting the controversial scheme said, as the project starts to bear fruit for smallholder farmers.
PERU: The Tangled Paths of New Forest Law
- Inter Press Service
Indigenous protests prompted the introduction of a new legislative bill on forests and wildlife in Peru, the second most forested country in South America. Experts consulted by Tierramérica pointed to what the initiative gets right, but also to what's wrong with it.
NIGER: Livestock Herders Plan Ahead
- Inter Press Service
The cows Djibo Hama looks after belong to someone else, but he is diligent. Anticipating a severe shortage of good grazing in 2010, he secured cattle feed for the 35 that remain.
U.S.: Obama Approves New Coastal Oil Drilling
- Inter Press Service
U.S. President Barack Obama announced on Wednesday his administration's plan to expand the areas off the U.S. coast which will be eligible for oil and natural gas drilling, as environmental groups condemned the plan as damaging to the oceans and coastal ecosystems.
CHILE: Quake a Chance for Sustainable Rebuilding
- Inter Press Service
Although there is not yet an official tally of the environmental consequences of Chile's Feb. 27 earthquake and tsunami, environmental groups and experts are calling for quick and sustainable responses to the problems.
U.S.: Big Energy Firms Blocking Solar Power in South
- Inter Press Service
As citizens, businesses and non-profit organisations seek to transition to cleaner power sources like solar and wind, some big energy firms whose business models rely on polluting sources are standing in the way.
DEVELOPMENT: More Food, Except For That Billion Or So
- Inter Press Service
While agricultural research has made massive strides over the years in helping the world produce more food from the same amount of land, around one in six people, the 1.02 billion hungry, have not noticed.
CLIMATE CHANGE: From Copenhagen to Cochabamba
- Inter Press Service
A different way of fighting global warming will be tried out in the central Bolivian city of Cochabamba when government representatives and thousands of activists gather for the World People's Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth.
EUROPE: Waste in East Going Waste
- Inter Press Service
Environment groups have warned that Eastern Europe is plagued with serious and potentially dangerous waste disposal problems as new figures reveal the region has Europe's lowest recycling rates.
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