News headlines for “Environmental Issues”, page 913
Q&A: ‘Creating Artificial Glaciers Is Simple, Easy and Replicable’
- Inter Press Service
His is a classic case of a man’s fight against nature in this trans-Himalayan region of Ladakh, as he battles climate change.
INDIA: ‘Glacier Man’ Vows to Build More Artificial Glaciers
- Inter Press Service
He is well known as India’s ‘glacier man’, but for 74-year-old retired government civil engineer, Chewang Norphel, accolades have made little dent in his quiet determination to build more high-altitude water conservation systems, or ‘artificial glaciers’, to beat the lack of water from receding Himalayan glaciers.
US-INDIA: State Visit by Singh Could Smooth Bumpy Relations
- Inter Press Service
The close of U.S. President Barack Obama's trip to Asia this week brought rampant speculation about what a new U.S.-China relationship will look like, but next week's state visit by Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will broaden the focus on the rising powers which Obama must balance during his administration.
PERU: Fighting Hunger with Native Crops
- Inter Press Service
As if he were showing off a treasure, Dionicio Sarmiento holds up his seed potatoes with a smile. 'Look how nice they are, all ready to plant. It'll be a good harvest,' says the peasant farmer from Huancavelica, Peru's poorest province, where most of the population depends on subsistence farming.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Health at Risk
- Inter Press Service
The impacts of climate change on human health will require new approaches to development, based on mitigation and adaptation programmes in line with policies that ensure equal access to health care.
CLIMATE CHANGE: The Danish Example
- Inter Press Service
Whether a new internationally binding treaty to reduce greenhouse gases and forestall climate change will be signed next month remains to be seen. What is clear though, is that if there is a place in the world that deserves to be the stage where this treaty ought to be signed, it is the Danish capital of Copenhagen.
CLIMATE CHANGE-MEXICO: A Policy of Pretence
- Inter Press Service
Although it is the second largest emitter of greenhouse gases in Latin America and the Caribbean, after Brazil, and will be hosting next year's United Nations climate meeting, Mexico is heading to the Cophenhagen summit practically empty-handed.
BIODIVERSITY: Plants Finally Get DNA Barcodes
- Inter Press Service
Advances made in genetic profiling could be used to fight illegal timber trading, provide authentication of herbal medicines and map entire food chains, according to experts at a conference of the Mexican Academy of Sciences.
CAMBODIA: Once ‘Extinct’ Crocodile Claws Its Way Back to Survival
- Inter Press Service
Siamese crocodiles once ranged far and wide across South-east Asia, from Indonesia to Vietnam, Laos to Thailand. But habitat loss and poaching virtually wiped out the three-metre long animals. Twenty years ago they were classified as effectively extinct in the wild.
CLIMATE CHANGE-THAILAND: Bangkok: A Future Filled with Floods
- Inter Press Service
Thailand’s capital, dubbed the ‘City of Angels’ and the ‘Venice of the East’, is threatened by long-term flood inundation as rising sea waters triggered by global weather change and monsoonal rains combine.
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