News headlines for “Environmental Issues”, page 910
DEVELOPMENT: Global Challenges Require Innovative Partnerships
- Inter Press Service
The High-level United Nations Conference on South-South Cooperation kicked-off here Tuesday, with U.N. Deputy Secretary-General Asha Rose Migiro calling for practical solutions and reinforced South-South and North-South partnerships to address the demands of our 'deeply interconnected world.'
LATIN AMERICA: Summit Does Not Recognise Elections in Honduras
- Inter Press Service
The hard-line stance taken by Brazil, Argentina and most other Latin American countries has clashed with U.S. efforts to push for international recognition of the elections organised Sunday by the de facto regime in power in Honduras since the Jun. 28 coup.
ENVIRONMENT: Tree Plantations Are Not Forests, Women Activists Say
- Inter Press Service
Touted as 'harvested forests,' single-crop tree plantations are fast encroaching on the native forests and grasslands of Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay, affecting the environment and the lives of local communities, rural women say.
Q&A: Even Island States Can Make Plans to Improve Food Security
- Inter Press Service
Eric Mangar deplores the fact that Mauritius, despite being a net food importer, has failed to learn its lessons from the food crisis. The island state is pursuing 'business as usual' without taking steps to improve food production on the local front.
CLIMATE CHANGE: India Plays Guessing Game Ahead of Copenhagen
- Inter Press Service
With one week left before the start of the United Nations climate change summit in Copenhagen, there is still no reliable word as to whether Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will attend, or whether or how much the South Asian state will commit itself to emission cuts.
INDIA: Climate Change Fuels Rural Out-Migration, Rising Farm Debt
- Inter Press Service
Under a shed made of bamboo and corrugated sheet metal, Purusottam Sur feeds his two bullocks and a cow with a bundle each of dry paddy plant. A fifth of his five-acre paddy harvest will be used only as cattle feed; the rice seeds just did not develop because of untimely rains this monsoon.
U.S.: Katrina Lawsuit Raises Broader Questions About Levee Safety
- Inter Press Service
Since a federal judge ruled earlier this month that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers was responsible for the devastating 2005 levee breach at the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet (MRGO) in Louisiana during Hurricane Katrina, some legal scholars believe that millions — or even billions - could be owed to additional Hurricane Katrina victims.
Q&A: Forging New Paths to Sustainable South-South Cooperation
- Inter Press Service
Countries from the South are assuming leading roles in decisions on global issues ranging from economic recovery to food security, climate change and HIV/AIDS.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Commonwealth Champions Adaption Fund
- Inter Press Service
South African President Jacob Zuma admits that before to coming to Trinidad for the bi-annual Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), he met with its secretary general, Kamalesh Sharma, to discuss the relevance of the grouping in today's evolving global power structure.
CUBA: Sponge Farms - New Source of Bounty from the Sea
- Inter Press Service
The ocean punishes Carahatas every time a hurricane tears through the region. The sea combines with the flow of a nearby river, and floods the houses with water a metre and a half deep, or more. Nevertheless, the residents of this Cuban town are deeply attached to the sea.
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