News headlines for “Environmental Issues”, page 898
COLOMBIA: Farm Subsidy Scandal Exposes Corrupt Policies
- Inter Press Service
The Attorney General's Office of Colombia is keeping a tight lid on developments in its investigation of 113 million dollars in farm subsidies handed out over the last three years to wealthy families, many of whom have no involvement in the agricultural sector whatsoever.
DEVELOPMENT: Filipino Communities Turn Trash Into Cash
- Inter Press Service
Days after the New Year’s Eve revelry dies down, expect colorful lanterns or wreaths to remain hanging on the windows of many Filipino homes — part of a tradition in this South-east Asian country known to have the longest Yuletide celebration in the world.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Carbon Prices Reflect an Uncertain Year
- Inter Press Service
As what was supposed to be a breakthrough year for action on climate change comes to a close, one indicator of the disappointment surrounding an anti-climactic outcome in Copenhagen and stalled U.S. Senate legislation can be seen on the European Climate Exchange.
ENVIRONMENT-CONGO: Defence of Great Apes Begins With Children
- Inter Press Service
'But why do they kill gorillas, why do they trap them and put them in cages? One day, if i'm president, i'll stop all those who kill gorillas, chimpanzees and bonobos,' says 11-year-old Judicaëlle, a student at the Holy Sprit of Moungali School in Brazzaville.
SRI LANKA: A Nation Struggles to Forget a Tragedy
- Inter Press Service
Waves hitting a train and carriages half submerged in water. Scores of men, women and children leaping above the water, hands outstretched, bodies strewn all over.
JAPAN: Solar Trend Catches Fire among Households
- Inter Press Service
The global community may have been dismayed by the outcome of the recently concluded climate change talks in Copenhagen, but Mami Naito, 42, is not about to put off dealing with this global phenomenon in her own small way. 'We very much like the idea of joining the efforts to prevent global warming,' says the mother of two.
URUGUAY: 'Dry Toilets' Provide Ecological Solution in Slums
- Inter Press Service
Marisabel's modest home had no plumbing, like the rest of the dwellings in this poor suburb on the outskirts of Montevideo, the capital of this small South American country.
RIGHTS: Glimmer of Hope for Detained Pakistani Fishermen
- Inter Press Service
Mai Asi has never stopped mourning for her two fishermen sons. They have been held behind bars in India for poaching in the waters of neighbouring Pakistan—a crime for which they were sentenced to two years’ imprisonment.
AGRICULTURE: Cattle 'Black Death' Banished to History
- Inter Press Service
An animal 'black death' that has devastated livestock around the world for thousands of years, causing famine and untold human misery, is about to be permanently consigned to the history books.
SANITATION-ZAMBIA: Turning Urine Into Gold
- Inter Press Service
When he ordered his colleagues at the Water and Sanitation Association of Zambia to save all their urine in a plastic bottle in the office toilet, they thought he was mad. But German sanitation specialist Christopher Kellner wanted to demonstrate why he calls urine 'liquid gold'.
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