News headlines for “Environmental Issues”, page 929
ENVIRONMENT: Novel Tribunal Gives Voice to Climate Change Victims
- Inter Press Service
Shorbanu Khatun flew into the Thai capital to share her pain about being a victim of a natural disaster. In May, Cyclone Aila tore through her community along the coast of Bangladesh, adding another layer of misery to the 36-year- old’s already impoverished life.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Firms Divided Over Obama's Emissions Cuts
- Inter Press Service
Momentum is building in Washington for an overhaul of climate policy, with President Barack Obama signing an executive order Monday directing federal agencies to monitor their greenhouse gas emissions and set targets to reduce their emissions by 2020.
ENERGY-BRAZIL: Putting (Human) Waste to Work
- Inter Press Service
Biodigester technology, which originated in Asia as a natural process for treating sewage waste, is reemerging in Latin America as an integrated system providing cheap energy, improved sanitation, and even attractive landscaping.
ENVIRONMENT-SOUTH AFRICA: Opportunities Spring From e-Waste
- Inter Press Service
There was an audible gasp when Kirsten McIntyre told the audience that e-waste is the third fastest growing waste stream in the world, with between 40 and 50 million tons of computers, TVs and washing machines being 'thrown away' each year.
Q&A: Desertification and Climate Change Go Hand in Hand
- Inter Press Service
'The entire social fabric of an area is compromised when soils are depleted,' says Italian expert Massimo Candelori, whose fight against desertification is increasingly linked to global efforts to combat climate change.
BRAZIL: Agribusiness Driving Land Concentration
- Inter Press Service
The growth of agribusiness in Brazil, with its vast monocultures of soybean or sugarcane, is responsible for the expansion of large estates belonging to fewer and fewer landowners, according to small farmers' organisations and agricultural experts.
ENVIRONMENT: Turning Junk Mail Into Art
- Inter Press Service
Like everyone else, Barbara Hashimoto hated the junk mail coming in through the door. Until she decided one day that it could be transformed into art, and lessons about the environment.
PHILIPPINES: Ketsana Signals Need for ‘No Regrets’ Adaptation Plan
- Inter Press Service
Typhoon Ketsana, which swept into the Philippines and left hundreds of people dead and massive devastation in its wake, should serve as a wake-up call to the government.
AFRICA: Stop Rubber Stamping Trade Deals
- Inter Press Service
Civil society should call African parliaments to account on international trade negotiations as parliamentarians have in the past not been 'robust' enough in ensuring that such talks deliver on developmental priorities.
ENVIRONMENT: India Warms Up to Copenhagen
- Inter Press Service
With the clock ticking away on the United Nations Framework for Climate Change Committee (UNFCCC) summit in Copenhagen in December, the fractiousness between the developed and the developing nations on who ought to do more to control climate change is getting increasingly strident.
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