News headlines for “Environmental Issues”, page 917
AGRICULTURE-ZIMBABWE: New Methods to Maximise Yields
- Inter Press Service
Last season, for the first time in her more than 20 years as a farmer, Elizabeth Runema harvested her maize crop at the beginning of February.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Africa In the Global Carbon Trade
- Inter Press Service
Carbon trading, as promoted by the Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), has become a key global strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Africa Told 'Stop Playing the Victim'
- Inter Press Service
Critics of carbon trading, a strategy meant to combat global warming, say the buying and selling of carbon credits is being exploited.
ENVIRONMENT-ARGENTINA: Desperately Dry
- Inter Press Service
The persistent drought affecting some 90 percent of Argentine territory has slain cattle in the hundreds of thousands and caused forest fires, drastic restrictions on water use and local disputes over water.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Signs and Portents of a Hostile New World
- Inter Press Service
Lawrence Amos travelled from the Arctic at the top of the world to the tropical middle to recite in a soft voice the ongoing destruction of his home by climate change.
VIETNAM: Human Rights, Health: Twin Issues for Climate Change
- Inter Press Service
Vietnam will be one of five nations most affected by climate change. Worst-case scenarios see large parts of the low-lying and flood-prone Mekong Delta area, which produces much of the nation’s rice crop, flooded.
BRAZIL: Green Beans to Go, Roast Coffee Grounded
- Inter Press Service
For over a century and a half, Brazil has led the world in green coffee bean production and exports, without ever achieving similar success with processed beans. Some of the internal and external hurdles reflect the dilemma of reliance on agricultural commodities for export revenue.
WEST AFRICA: Helping Pirates to Plunder the Oceans
- Inter Press Service
West Africa is one of the world’s regions most affected by pirate fishers. Illegal, unreported or unregulated fishing has been devastating local livelihoods and ecosystems for decades. National fisheries management authorities are often helpless to protect their maritime resources.
JAPAN: Fresh Aid to Mekong Signals Rivalry with China -- Experts
- Inter Press Service
There is more to Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama’s pledge last week to extend at least 500 billion yen (5.6 billion U.S. dollars) in fresh assistance to the Mekong region than meets the eye, or so observers think.
POLITICS: Big Breakthroughs May Elude Obama's Asia Trip
- Inter Press Service
U.S. President Barack Obama arrives in Tokyo Thursday for the first stop of his four-nation trip to Asia, but an ongoing disagreement over realignment of U.S. forces in Japan, new roadblocks towards a free trade agreement (FTA) with South Korea, and continuing tussles over climate change, trade and currency issues with China have led the White House to downplay goals for the northeast Asian legs of trip.
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