News headlines for “Environmental Issues”, page 895
POLITICS: U.N. Faces Its Own Major Tragedy in Haiti
- Inter Press Service
The major earthquake that struck Haiti Tuesday, causing death and destruction in the capital of Port-au-Prince, may also turn out to be a veritable disaster for the United Nations, which has over 9,000 personnel, including peacekeepers, international staffers and local civilians, scattered throughout the country.
BOLIVIA: Women’s Right to Land Thwarted by Patriarchal Traditions
- Inter Press Service
Bolivian legislation on land ownership is highly favourable to women, but a lack of awareness makes it difficult to enforce these laws and ensure that women are able to obtain - and maintain - control of the land they farm.
BOLIVIA: Women’s Right to Land Thwarted by Patriarchal Traditions
- Inter Press Service
Bolivian legislation on land ownership is highly favourable to women, but a lack of awareness makes it difficult to enforce these laws and ensure that women are able to obtain - and maintain - control of the land they farm.
BIODIVERSITY: A Tipping Point on Species Loss?
- Inter Press Service
Humanity is destroying the network of living things that comprise our life support system. While this sawing-through-the-branch-we're-perched-on is largely unintentional, world leaders can't say they didn't know what's going on: 123 countries promised to take urgent action in 2003 but have done little to stem the rising tide of extinctions in what's known as the extinction or biodiversity crisis.
HAITI: U.S. Residents Mount Humanitarian Aid
- Inter Press Service
A group of Haitian American leaders, state and local officials met late Tuesday night to map out humanitarian relief efforts as the extent of the damage from a devastating magnitude 7.0 earthquake hit Haiti became clearer.
ENVIRONMENT: Seeking a Consumer Culture Revolution
- Inter Press Service
The last 50 years have seen an unprecedented and unsustainable spike in consumption, driven by a culture of consumerism that has emerged over that period, says a report released Tuesday by the Worldwatch Institute.
BIODIVERSITY: 'Pious Words Won't Save Endangered Species'
- Inter Press Service
Less than a month after the world's heads of governments failed to sign an international treaty to address climate change at Copenhagen, they are back at making pious speeches, this time in favour of protecting biodiversity, endangered by global warming and other causes.
MALAWI: Green Belt Initiative Taking Shape
- Inter Press Service
Let the rains fail, even for several successive seasons, and Malawi should still be able to produce enough to feed itself.
Q&A: ''Copenhagen Was Great for Citizen Mobilisation''
- Inter Press Service
'It is important that we all come together, the Green Party, NGOs and citizens, on major issues such as pollution in big cities or deforestation,' says Remus Cernea, the new executive president of the Romanian Green Party. 'And we have to use all means, from public protests and working with the media to judicial action and party politics, in order to achieve our goals.'
NIGERIA: Lake Communities Left High and Dry
- Inter Press Service
The fittest are fleeing the shores of Lake Chad: Adamu Modu, a young fisherman, is joining a stream of able-bodied men heading south to find work in the southern part of the country.
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