News headlines for “Environmental Issues”, page 890
BIODIVERSITY: Northern 'Biopirates' Gobbling up Resources
- Inter Press Service
Rich countries are like biopirates, looting far-away lands for food, raw materials and cheap labour. They're plundering other richer ecosystems because they've largely destroyed their own. And they're blocking global efforts to create an independent scientific assessment panel that is likely point the finger at the real reason species are going extinct at 1,000 times their natural pace, experts say.
NICARAGUA: Can Army Protect Plundered Forest Reserves?
- Inter Press Service
The Nicaraguan state has embarked on an iron-fisted policy, including the use of military force, to clamp down on those responsible for environmental depredation, after repeated denunciations by organisations and government officials that the country's two largest biosphere reserves are being plundered.
WORLD SOCIAL FORUM: Reconciling Social and Environmental Needs
- Inter Press Service
One of the greatest challenges facing the world today is to attend to the urgent social needs of the planet’s population, and particularly the one billion people living 'on the brink of survival', while dealing with the equally urgent demands of the environment.
BURMA: Ethnic Women Expose Opium Fields in Junta Strongholds
- Inter Press Service
A report exposing the spreading opium fields in the north-eastern corner of the military-ruled Burma has brought to light an equally revealing story. It was produced by a team of ethnic women who risked their lives to document the heroin-filled world they inhabit.
ENVIRONMENT-ASIA: Future of China’s Tiger Farms in the Balance
- Inter Press Service
The road to the world’s first tiger summit in Vladivostok later this year will have to be paved with answers about the future of tiger farms in China and other East Asian countries, said conservationists.
CUBA: Zeolite, Mineral of a Thousand Uses
- Inter Press Service
Cuba, which has major reserves of zeolite, aims to boost exploitation of the mineral, whose properties and uses in products and technologies contribute to protecting the environment.
INDIA: Mobilised by Old Clothes, Poor Folk Stand Up, Take Action
- Inter Press Service
Salidhana village, a mere blip on the vast and arid landscape of India’s central state of Madhya Pradesh, was devoid of life’s most basic necessity — water. Until last year, there was no well in this hamlet of about a hundred families. Women would trudge hours daily to fetch water from distant areas, often losing their balance on the hilly village’s treacherous slopes.
BIODIVERSITY: EU Farmers Face Genetic Contamination of Seeds
- Inter Press Service
Biodiversity, already decaying fast as a result of climate change and intensive farming, is under further threat by genetic modification (GM) of seeds, says a leading German ecological activist.
MIDEAST: Clean Energy Faces Tough Financial Climate
- Inter Press Service
Renewable energy projects in the Middle East could be scaled back or scuttled unless fresh sources of financing are found.
Q&A: Rage and the Economics of the Environment
- Inter Press Service
'Rage is sometimes the appropriate response' to the failure of the world's leaders to craft a new climate treaty at the Copenhagen summit, says British economist Tim Jackson.
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