News headlines for “Environmental Issues”, page 920
GUATEMALA: (Barely) Surviving on Beans and Tortillas
- Inter Press Service
Juan Manuel Ardón's bones jut out and his hair is dull and thin: signs of severe malnutrition. He is so weak that he can hardly walk or talk, and the doctors say his weight and stature are those of a six-year-old, rather than 15-year-old, boy.
SIERRA LEONE: New Dawn for Small Farmers?
- Inter Press Service
They call her 'Marie Nerica', after a new breed of rice.
AGRICULTURE-SENEGAL: Groundnut Production in Freefall
- Inter Press Service
Farmers are complaining about a lack of technical assistance and the poor quality of seeds they've planted this year in the Kaolack region, Senegal's groundnut-producing area, 200 kilometres south of the capital Dakar.
GUATEMALA: Controversy Dogs New Highway
- Inter Press Service
Construction is expected to begin soon on a new highway across north-central Guatemala, the largest infrastructure project tackled so far by the government of Álvaro Colom.
UGANDA: Palm Project Accused of Environmental Destruction
- Inter Press Service
It is a public-private partnership intended to reduce Uganda's dependence on imported vegetable oil while creating sustainable jobs and income for several thousand people. Its critics say it's destroying forests with no regard for environmental regulations.
US-EUROPE: An Ocean Apart in More Ways Than One
- Inter Press Service
As a delegation of European Union leaders descends on Washington Tuesday, a new report argues that 'European governments prefer to fetishise transatlantic relations, valuing closeness and harmony as ends in themselves, and seeking influence with Washington through various strategies of seduction or ingratiation'.
LABOUR: Sorting Garbage - Green and Dignified Work
- Inter Press Service
More than 1,500 representatives of waste recyclers from 13 countries, and thousands of other visitors, including the host country Brazil's left-wing President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, met last week in São Paulo, demonstrating that they are no longer pariahs in our throw-away society.
ZIMBABWE: Far From the City’s Money, Villagers Barter Again
- Inter Press Service
In Chitsa, a village with some 2,000 inhabitants located about 250 km from Zimbabwe’s capital of Harare, it has become difficult to conduct everyday transactions involving money.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Jockeying for Position in Copenhagen
- Inter Press Service
The global climate change caravan has arrived in Barcelona for a last round of talks before the Copenhagen summit. What's at stake for Africa?
ENVIRONMENT-AUSTRALIA: Toxic Contaminants: The Other Scourge
- Inter Press Service
As the world focuses on the impact of climate change, little attention is being paid to yet another environmental bane: increasing contamination of air, water and soil.
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