News headlines for “Environmental Issues”, page 914
ENERGY-TANZANIA: Charcoal A Dirty Trade-Off
- Inter Press Service
The sun is setting slowly over Dar es Salaam's Tabata Changombe neighbourhood. Ameenah and Skukulu Juma lean against the corrugated iron walls of their makeshift charcoal shop.
ENVIRONMENT: Wildfires Spreading as Temperatures Rise
- Inter Press Service
Future firefighters have their work cut out for them. Perhaps nowhere does this hit home harder than in Australia, where in early 2009 a persistent drought, high winds, and record high temperatures set the stage for the worst wildfire in the country's history.
ENERGY: Clean, Green Goo to Power Engines
- Inter Press Service
Stephen Mayfield, the recently appointed director of the University of California at San Diego's Algae Biotechnology lab, is taking on a Texas-sized challenge - giving birth to a nascent alternative energy industry.
ENVIRONMENT: Listen to the Earth, Say Indigenous Peoples
- Inter Press Service
The idea of wilderness is 'an interesting concept; it is a Western concept. Our people have always lived and interacted in the environment,' said Illion Merculieff, an environmental activist from the Aleut community in the north-western U.S. state of Alaska.
VIETNAM: Water, Water All Around—Plus All the Risks It Brings
- Inter Press Service
As Vietnam’s big cities are increasingly deluged by floods, the infrastructure cannot keep up.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Women Central to Adapatation, Mitigation
- Inter Press Service
Poor women will bear the greatest ‘climate burden’, says the United Nations Population Fund in its 2009 State of the World Population report, released today.
DEVELOPMENT: Climate Change Likely to Increase African Hunger Woes
- Inter Press Service
Africa, the continent already most affected by hunger and food scarcity, is likely to see its woes increased due to climate change and the changing rain patterns it provokes, experts and scientists say.
DEVELOPMENT: UNFPA Puts Human Face on Climate Blowback
- Inter Press Service
A new U.N. report on the hazards of climate change brings a fresh human perspective to an ongoing wide-ranging debate that has focused primarily on energy efficiency and industrial carbon emissions.
DEVELOPMENT: To Grab, Or To Invest
- Inter Press Service
The World Food Security Summit in Rome this week opened up a dispute between what may be investment in farmland to some, but is seen as land grab by others.
INDIA: A Famed Region’s Tripple Whammy of Environmental Bane
- Inter Press Service
The combined impact of tourism, climate change and changing lifestyle in this internationally renowned adventure haven has raised serious concerns among environmental groups.
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