News headlines for “Environmental Issues”, page 918
CLIMATE CHANGE-BRAZIL: Towards Carbon-Free Chimneys
- Inter Press Service
Scientists in Brazil are developing a technique for absorbing industry-produced carbon dioxide before it ever reaches the atmosphere. The secret lies in half-centimetre ceramic spheres.
PHILIPPINES: Guarded Optimism for New Climate Change Law
- Inter Press Service
While pessimism continues to dog the lead-up to next month’s climate change talks in the Danish capital of Copenhagen, a new Philippine law aimed at streamlining the country’s efforts to mitigate and adapt to the effects of global warming has received a guarded welcome by environmental groups here.
ENERGY-SPAIN: Windfall for the Grid
- Inter Press Service
Wind energy notched up a new record in Spain on Sunday, when it generated 53 percent of total electricity demand nationwide for part of the day, according to official figures announced Monday.
CHINA: Latest Africa Foray: Altruism or Hegemony?
- Inter Press Service
Brushing off accusations that its investment is denuding Africa of precious natural resources, China has pledged 'going all-out' to help African countries overcome poverty and fight new threats like climate change.
Q&A: 'One Can't Work 18 Hours a Day and Still be Poor'
- Inter Press Service
Given the billions of dollars and euros that the U.S. and EU spend on trade-distorting support measures and the intractable lobby groups demanding these subsidies, these rich states’ promises to reduce such amounts will come to nought. It makes no sense for poor African states to allow these goods to flood their markets.
ENVIRONMENT: 'Temperature Rise Guaranteed, Thanks to Brown Clouds'
- Inter Press Service
Regardless of success at the upcoming climate talks at Copenhagen this December, there will still be a 2.5 degree rise in temperatures.
URUGUAY: White Concrete Block Replaces Mud, Wattle and Thatch
- Inter Press Service
'If it weren't for the Mevir housing project, this would be a ghost town,' says the local shopkeeper who supplies the basic needs of the families living in this remote hamlet in the middle of nowhere in the South American country of Uruguay.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Dark Clouds Gathering Over Copenhagen
- Inter Press Service
It has been a bad week for the climate change summit in Copenhagen next month. During the week the last meeting in the formal round of pre- Copenhagen talks collapsed in Barcelona. Then, meeting here on the weekend, the G20 finance ministers put the seal on that failure by failing to agree to a financial package.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Dark Clouds Gathering Over Copenhagen
- Inter Press Service
It has been a bad week for the climate change summit in Copenhagen next month. During the week the last meeting in the formal round of pre- Copenhagen talks collapsed in Barcelona. Then, meeting here on the weekend, the G20 finance ministers put the seal on that failure by failing to agree to a financial package.
MEXICO: Women Package the Sweet Taste of Nostalgia
- Inter Press Service
Years ago, when Catalina Sánchez saw an opportunity to earn an income and improve her family’s living conditions by growing and selling nopales - an edible cactus native to Mexico - she probably never imagined that her idea would spawn three businesses.
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