News headlines for “Environmental Issues”, page 926
CLIMATE CHANGE: Carbon Capture Effort Collects Critics
- Inter Press Service
The capture and underground storage of greenhouse gases, especially carbon dioxide, is a dubious method of effectively reducing the pollution that causes global warming, experts warn.
EAST TIMOR: Seasonal Changes Cause for Alarm
- Inter Press Service
If you order a beer, sit back and relax at one of the expat bars dotted along the coastal Pantai Kelapa road in this capital, you cannot help but notice the view: the stony beach, the swimming children and the grounded fishing boats. But that view is morphing — a visible sign of how climate change could be affecting East Timor.
PAKISTAN: Beyond the Storm, Eco-Friendly Dream Homes
- Inter Press Service
'I don’t think I will ever miss the old home; it never protected us from floods and storms!' said Dadi Ibrahim, a widow. Her only association, she said, with her dilapidated hut is the 'fond memories' of living there with her late husband.
Q&A: Political Will, Governance Crucial to Climate Change Issue
- Inter Press Service
How countries can develop and provide key services to their citizens while acting responsibly in limiting emissions is a balancing act for many Asian countries, including those in the Mekong region.
ASIA: For Mekong, Climate Change Is a Dev’t Issue - Experts
- Inter Press Service
Far from looking at climate change as a distant theoretical issue for scientists and environmentalists to dissect, countries that share the Mekong River would do well to realise that it is first and foremost a development issue that threatens to affect food, environment and everyday lives.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Tech Sector Urged to Lead Green Economy
- Inter Press Service
U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has appealed to the information and communications technology (ICT) community to help seal the deal at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December.
Q&A: Climate Change Just One Factor in Coastal Erosion
- Inter Press Service
The Paraná River delta in eastern Argentina is the only one in the world that is not disappearing, and that is due to deforestation for cultivating soybeans, explains geologist Jorge Codignotto, a former member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, in this interview.
ENVIRONMENT: India’s Floods in Retrospect
- Inter Press Service
'For almost one full day, we were desperate, wet and hungry,' said Raja Angamutthu. 'Our house, farmland, utensils, everything was floating in a watery grave while we looked on helplessly!'
Q&A: Small Sugar Farmers Not so Sweet on End of Sugar Protocol
- Inter Press Service
The Sugar Protocol enabling developing world sugar farmers to produce for the European market over the past 34 years ended on Sep 30. Among these, the small island state of Mauritius built two major industries -- tourism and textile and clothing — on the back of its sugar sales.
BIODIVERSITY: Earth's Life Support Systems Failing
- Inter Press Service
The world has failed to slow the accelerating extinction crisis despite 17 years of national and international efforts since the great hopes raised at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro.
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