News headlines for “Environmental Issues”, page 932
AGRICULTURE: Can South Africa Afford to Export Virtual Water?
- Inter Press Service
Near the banks of the Orange River, farm manager Le Roux Viljoen sends off an SMS to a weather station and receives an almost instantaneous response telling him the temperature, wind direction and estimated evaporation index.
SOUTHERN AFRICA: Orange River Marshes Need a Lifetime to Recover
- Inter Press Service
Much of the internationally-recognised wetland surrounding the Orange River mouth has lost its rich green colour. Situated close to long-standing diamond mining operations, the river's mouth has been treated with environmental disregard for decades.
ASIA: Calls for Massive Financing Kick Off Climate Change Talks
- Inter Press Service
The need for adequate financing to assist developing countries in meeting the challenges of climate change was highlighted on Monday’s opening of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) negotiations in Thailand’s capital.
ASIA: Climate Change Puts Mekong Region’s New Species at Risk
- Inter Press Service
The rich and unique biodiversity of the Mekong region, which has been discovered only since the recent years, is likely to be put at risk by environmental impacts that climate change is expected to bring, says the World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF) in a report launched here Friday.
SOUTHERN AFRICA: Journey of a Working River: the Orange-Senqu
- Inter Press Service
In the steep valleys of Lesotho's Maluti mountains, women carry yellow plastic buckets of water across fields of dark-brown earth; a group of men form a human chain to pass rocks between them to build a small dam wall across a mountain stream; clothes are being washed in rivers; and men draped in blankets ride donkeys or horses along the roadside.
PERU: Environmental Clean-up not Complete, Say Achuar Communities
- Inter Press Service
Leaders of the Achuar people are challenging a decision by the Peruvian government to declare that a clean-up effort by the PlusPetrol oil company in the northeastern Amazon jungle has been completed.
TRADE-AFRICA: Russia 'Could be Left Behind'
- Inter Press Service
Russia should reconsider its trade policy towards African states if it wants to keep up with the likes of China, the European Union (EU) and the U.S., say experts.
/CORRECTED REPEAT*/UGANDA: Carbon Trading Scheme Pushing People off Their Land
- Inter Press Service
As the world's attention increasingly turns to the impact of climate change, at least one project intended to reduce global carbon emissions is accused of displacing indigenous persons from their home in Uganda.
ENVIRONMENT: Desertification - a Macroeconomic Problem
- Inter Press Service
Understanding desertification as a macroeconomic problem, with financial, productive, environmental and civil society aspects, is a major concern for Christian Mersmann, the managing director of the Global Mechanism of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD).
ENVIRONMENT: Climate Change Faster Than Expected, UN Says
- Inter Press Service
Less than three months before a key global negotiation on curbing greenhouse gases, a new study released here Thursday by the U.N. Environment Programme (UNEP) warns that climate change is taking place faster than anticipated.
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