News headlines for “Environmental Issues”, page 880
Q&A: Tapping Women's Enterprise to Topple Rural Poverty
- Inter Press Service
Employees at the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) may have cause to fear for their jobs after Yukiko Omura was appointed vice president of the United Nations' rural poverty agency in February.
VIETNAM: Salinisation, Drought Bring Worries to Mekong Delta
- Inter Press Service
He has worked this land for half of 64 years and is known among his fellow farmers in Kien Giang province here in the Mekong Delta as ‘lao nong’, or the old master of rice.
ENVIRONMENT: Blame on Chinese Dams Rise as Mekong River Dries Up
- Inter Press Service
As the water level in the Mekong River dips to a record 50-year low, a familiar pattern of fault-finding has risen to the surface. China, the regional giant through which parts of South-east Asia’s largest waterway flows through, is again at the receiving end of verbal salvoes from its neighbours.
ENERGY-LATIN AMERICA: Moving Towards Renewables
- Inter Press Service
Argentina is building its first solar energy park in the northwestern province of San Juan. The project calls for the manufacture of photovoltaic panels to supply the rest of the country and the other member countries of the Southern Common Market (Mercosur).
ENVIRONMENT: So That Vans May Pollute More
- Inter Press Service
Three years after vehicle-makers succeeded in weakening new European Union (EU) pollution standards for cars, many of the same firms are hoping to frustrate efforts to make vans more fuel-efficient.
CLIMATE CHANGE: In Canada, No News is Bad News
- Inter Press Service
Canada's climate researchers are being muzzled, their funding slashed, research stations closed, findings ignored and advice on the critical issue of the century unsought by Prime Minister Stephen Harper's government, according to a 40-page report by a coalition of 60 non-governmental organisations.
CHILE: Cracks Exposed in Readiness Plan
- Inter Press Service
Inadequacies in technical equipment, specialised human resources, institutional coordination, land zoning and citizen awareness were all laid bare by the major earthquake and subsequent tsunami on Feb. 27 in central and southern Chile.
BALKANS: Farming Prospers as Farmers Suffer
- Inter Press Service
Official statistics put Serbian agriculture as the single most productive branch of the economy and one that not only survived the financial meltdown but chalked up a record trade surplus of almost a billion US dollars in 2009.
ENVIRONMENT-INDIA: All Eyes on Forest Protection Body
- Inter Press Service
Seemingly unstoppable development has made a mockery of the protected status of this southern Indian region, which houses vast biodiversity and some of the finest examples of moist deciduous and tropical forests.
ENVIRONMENT-INDIA: Law on Forest Rights Fails to Deliver
- Inter Press Service
A four-year-old landmark law that was supposed to bring profound changes in the lives of India’s tribal and forest-dwelling peoples has failed to deliver on that promise.
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