News headlines for “Environmental Issues”, page 891
EL SALVADOR: Activists Link Mining Co. to Murders
- Inter Press Service
Environmental activists in El Salvador allege that managers of a gold mine owned by a Canadian corporation are implicated in the murders of three anti-mining activists.
ECONOMY-EUROPE: Czechs Bank on Cooperatives for Revival
- Inter Press Service
The Czech Republic’s strong heritage of cooperative movements, dating from the interwar period, is serving as inspiration for new initiatives in the post-communist era and acting as 'harbingers of a new global economic system'.
POLITICS: U.S. Taking New Tack on Afghan Poppies
- Inter Press Service
Counter-narcotics and counterinsurgency often go hand-in-hand in Afghanistan, where the opium poppy trade bankrolls much of the Taliban's operations and greases political corruption.
CLIMATE CHANGE: ‘Copenhagen Accord Not Legal, Kyoto Protocol Is’
- Inter Press Service
While the BASIC bloc countries - Brazil, South Africa, India and China - will submit their plans for voluntary mitigation actions by the Jan. 31 deadline stipulated by the Copenhagen Accord, they have taken care to emphasise that the agreement, reached at the end of the December climate change summit in the Danish capital, has no legal basis.
ENVIRONMENT: Indian Glaciologist Fires Back at Climate Sceptics
- Inter Press Service
'It is a fact that global warming is happening. If the Arctic Sea ice is melting, how can the Himalayan glaciers not be melting?' glaciologist Syed Iqbal Hasnain asked indignantly.
ZIMBABWE: One Million Casualties of Land Reform
- Inter Press Service
The seizure of large commercial farms - almost all white-owned - has continued despite the formation of a unity government in Zimbabwe. The country's farm workers say they are the biggest losers.
BIODIVERSITY: Words Are Not Enough
- Inter Press Service
Words are not enough to stop the rapidly unraveling web of life, agreed heads of state and international conservation organisations at a high-level meeting that ended here last Friday.
DEVELOPMENT: Yemen to Lead South in U.N. Negotiations
- Inter Press Service
The republic of Yemen, categorised by the United Nations as one of the world's 'least developed countries' (LDCs), will lead the largest single coalition of developing nations this year: the 130-member Group of 77 (G77).
Q&A: ‘Saving Tigers is Good for Ecosystems, Biodiversity’
- Inter Press Service
The first Asian ministerial meeting to protect the tiger, one of the world’s most storied animals, is poised to test a new commitment between government leaders, the World Bank and the global conservationist movement.
CLIMATE CHANGE: After Copenhagen, Back to Basics for BASIC Bloc
- Inter Press Service
As environment ministers from Brazil, South Africa, India and China (BASIC) prepared to meet in the Indian capital on Sunday to draw up a post-Copenhagen strategy, there were great expectations on the role they could play in pushing a consensus on how the world should go about dealing with climate change.
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