News headlines for “Environmental Issues”, page 888
BIODIVERSITY: Conservation Groups Pounce on Year of the Tiger
- Inter Press Service
The Lunar New Year that begins Sunday will mark the start of the Chinese Zodiac's Year of the Tiger, but conservationists are saying 2010 will have much more than symbolic significance for the Asian big cat.
URUGUAY: Pulling Small Dairy Farmers Out of Poverty
- Inter Press Service
'The problem is when you're too small, just too small,' says Claudia Pérez, a small-scale dairy farmer in Uruguay, glancing to her left, where her pasture ends just 50 metres from her modest rural home.
ENERGY-MEXICO: Big and Small Firms Harness Sun's Rays
- Inter Press Service
It was Isabel Cortés, the family matriarch, who started the project. In 1990, she started looking for a way to market xoconostle, the sour variety of the nopal cactus fruit that is abundant in this arid part of central Mexico, in the Mezquital valley.
BIODIVERSITY: India Bans Farming of GM Aubergine
- Inter Press Service
After India’s Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh announced Tuesday a ban on the cultivation of Bt brinjal, the country’s first genetically modified (GM) food crop, food security experts and activists said this major farming country has been saved from a biodiversity disaster.
DEVELOPMENT: Crisis Could Open Doors for Change, Says UNCTAD
- Inter Press Service
As the financial crisis continued to threaten world economies last year, the White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel famously declared: 'You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.'
BIODIVERSITY: Companies Push Hard to Halt Tuna Collapse
- Inter Press Service
In the Seychelles' only cannery, the din of thousands of empty tuna cans rattling on narrow metal troughs is incredible as they bustle along, soon to be filled with Skipjack tuna that only days ago were swimming freely in the inky blue Indian Ocean.
Q&A: ''There's a Limit to Fish Harvesting''
- Inter Press Service
The perilous state of the world’s fish stocks has received less media attention than the more visible, palpable environmental problems like air pollution. Isabella Lövin is seeking to redress that balance. Her 2007 book ‘Tyst hav’ (Silent Seas) hit the best-seller list in her native Sweden, garnering her three awards, including the title of 'Journalist of the Year'.
PERU: Women Combine Invention, Tradition to Improve Rural Diets
- Inter Press Service
Although Huancavelica is the poorest region of Peru, it has more than just poverty, malnutrition and unmet needs. There are also women using their creativity, efforts and traditional indigenous knowledge to improve the diets of their families and communities.
CLIMATE-GERMANY: Planting the Forest of the Future
- Inter Press Service
Exotic tree seedlings grow next to native species in the southeastern German village of Laufen, at a site where researchers are experimenting with ways to restore forests lost to the effects of global warming.
ETHIOPIA: Dam Critics Won't Go Away
- Inter Press Service
Ethiopia is building a 240-metre high dam on the Omo River that is intended to end the country's electricity shortage and supply power to neighbouring countries. Not everyone's happy.
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