News headlines for “Environmental Issues”, page 896
URUGUAY: Coming Together to Tackle Climate Change
- Inter Press Service
Fighting the front line battle against global warming, with the participation of all sectors of society, is the cornerstone of a United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) pilot project in Uruguay that is drawing attention from the rest of the world.
AGRICULTURE: Three-Quarters of Hungry Are Rural Poor
- Inter Press Service
Climate change, associated with a four-fold increase in natural disasters in the last decade, and the growth of world population, which is expected to reach nine billion by 2050, pose new challenges for aid initiatives like those of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP).
CLIMATE CHANGE: Watch the Birdies
- Inter Press Service
Ornithologists say that climate change is having a profound effect on bird behaviour and suggest that this phenomenon can act as an early warning system to the dangers posed to Earth.
MEDIA-US: Afghanistan Dominated TV Foreign News in 2009
- Inter Press Service
Afghanistan and the U.S. military escalation in the civil war there dominated foreign-related news coverage by the three major U.S. television networks in 2009, according to the latest annual review by the authoritative Tyndall Report.
SOUTH ASIA: Harness Untapped Renewable Energy Sources -- Experts
- Inter Press Service
With its vast renewable energy potential, South Asia can lead the world in achieving energy security.
DEVELOPMENT: Clinton Lays Out U.S. Strategy
- Inter Press Service
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Wednesday pledged to make development, along with defence and diplomacy, 'a central pillar' of U.S. foreign policy and results, rather than ideology, a guiding principle in devising development policy.
URUGUAY: Forestry Industry Boom Brings Jobs and Challenges
- Inter Press Service
'After work, when I'm on my own, I'm bored to death. If you want amenities, you have to bring them yourself,' says young forestry worker Alejandro de Leiva, who works on a tree plantation in the western Uruguayan province of Paysandú, where he lives and works for 10 to 12 days in a row, with just two days off.
ZAMBIA: Bringing Phones to the Countryside
- Inter Press Service
Cellular phones have quickly become a popular and effective means of communication in Zambia, but their use has been concentrated in urban areas. Government and NGOs are now trying to extend these services to rural people.
ENVIRONMENT-INDIA: Creeping Deserts and Crouching Hunger
- Inter Press Service
It is just the beginning of the year, but M. Manju Laxmi already feels anxious. In four months or so, she will be back to her old routine: stuffing the wide chinks under her weathered closed doors and windows with her old saris.
BIODIVERSITY: Invasive Species Multiply in U.S. Waterways
- Inter Press Service
As 2010, the U.N.'s International Year of Biodiversity, gets underway, a fight against some of the most damaging invasive species in U.S. waterways is heating up.
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