News headlines for “Environmental Issues”, page 903
Q&A: Military Activity Driving Rapid Glacier Melting
- Inter Press Service
For the past several years, water expert Arshad H. Abbasi has been calling attention to the environmental degradation of the Siachen Glacier, one of the Himalayan glaciers and the largest in the world outside of the Polar Regions.
CLIMATE CHANGE: The World Needs a Hero
- Inter Press Service
Climate change is becoming an increasingly colossal problem, and civil society, fed up with fruitless negotiations, seems to have found its David: Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed.
CLIMATE CHANGE: 'Cut Fossil Fuel Subsidies But Compensate the Poor'
- Inter Press Service
Cutting governmental subsidies for fossil energy could lead to a 10 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 as compared to 1990 levels, says a recent study by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Water Is the Missing Link in Copenhagen
- Inter Press Service
When the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) announced the grim news that 2009 is likely to rank in the top 10 warmest on record, the U.N. agency also stressed last week the widespread water-related calamities caused by global warming.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Developing Countries Insist Kyoto Stays
- Inter Press Service
The U.N. Climate Change Conference enters its final week under a cloud of uncertainty as the Africa Group led a protest of the developing world against a perceived attempt to abandon the Kyoto Protocol.
SRI LANKA: Local Climate Efforts: Too Little, Too Slow, Too Late?
- Inter Press Service
Sri Lankan experts do not seem to be pinning their hopes on the ongoing climate talks in Copenhagen, saying greenhouse gas emissions will continue to torment the world as long as western lifestyles remain the same.
CLIMATE CHANGE-CUBA: 'Energy is an Instrument of Power'
- Inter Press Service
'Energy is an instrument of power. Whoever has energy, controls the world,' Cuban expert Luis Bérriz said in an address to Klimaforum, the civil society meeting being held in parallel to the UN conference on climate change in the Danish capital.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Scientists Turn to Inuit for Clues
- Inter Press Service
The Inuit people who live in and around the Arctic are among the worst victims of global warming, and scientists are now turning to their experience and indigenous knowledge to understand the staggering effects of climate change.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Scientists Turn to Inuit People For Clues
- Inter Press Service
The Inuit people who live in and around the Arctic are among the worst victims of global warming, and scientists are turning to their experience and indigenous knowledge to understand the staggering effects of climate change.
ARGENTINA: Solar Villages Light Up the Andes
- Inter Press Service
The residents of the Puna, the dry Andean highlands in northern Argentina, are cut off from everything - except the sun. Living on arid land thousands of metres above sea level, they are on their way to becoming 'solar villages.'
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