News headlines for “Environmental Issues”, page 897
TANZANIA: Addressing Energy Crisis Through Alternatives and Efficiency at Household Level
- Inter Press Service
Tanzania's electricity grid is fed by a mixture of natural gas, diesel and hydropower; however, over the past few years the country has experienced severe blackouts and power rationing in urban areas due to drought and subsequent low-water levels.
COLOMBIA: Women Empowered by Restoring Desertified Land
- Inter Press Service
Indigenous and rural women from southern Tolima, a province located in the heart of Colombia, are lending a hand to the bleak land around them, with the aim of simultaneously recovering the ecosystem and regaining their own dignity, in a community effort that is changing their environment and their lives.
DEVELOPMENT: Have a Hungry New Year (No Don't)
- Inter Press Service
The world's hungry have good reason to look to the new year with trepidation given the experience of the 12 months that preceded it.
ENVIRONMENT: Invasion of the Little Green Molecules
- Inter Press Service
While the world's climate negotiators were getting ready for Copenhagen earlier this month, a meeting was taking place in Mumbai to discuss progress in green chemistry, a field that — like the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions — has the potential to greatly enhance the world's environmental health and sustainability.
SOUTH AFRICA: Late Start For Crayfish Licences
- Inter Press Service
Long after the official opening of the crayfish season in South Africa on November 15, the boats lay idle on the beach in West Coast fishing villages like Paternoster. Fishing permits from the Marine and Coastal Managment unit (MCM) of the Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism had not been issued.
SOUTH AFRICA: 'They Haven’t Got a Choice: They Must Go to Sea'
- Inter Press Service
Because of an unfair fishing quota system, more and more small South African fishing communities struggle to survive.
ENVIRONMENT: Fishing in the Sewer
- Inter Press Service
After four hours on the Nile in a rowboat with his two sons, fisher Hussein Abdel Malek tallies the morning catch: a plastic water bottle, an empty juice box, a half dozen plastic bags and two small tilapia.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Doors Opening for Carbon Tax
- Inter Press Service
With the chance for a global climate change treaty on hold, a tax on greenhouse gases could be an effective alternative for discouraging the activities that create emissions, say economists and environmentalists.
TANZANIA: Community Still Worried By Mine Contamination
- Inter Press Service
Susanna Solomon is still tending her shamba, but she won't eat the harvest from her farm when it's ready.
HUNGER: New Warning on Food Security for Horn of Africa
- Inter Press Service
The European Commission Humanitarian Aid Department (ECHO) has raised a red flag over the worsening food security situation in the Horn of Africa.
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