News headlines for “Environmental Issues”, page 935
BRAZIL: Green Challenges Posed by Black Gold
- Inter Press Service
Brazil's discovery of vast offshore oil and natural gas reserves raises the question of how to tap the newfound wealth without causing severe environmental impacts and without leaving aside the development of clean energy alternatives.
Q&A: 'Climate Change and Political Problems Reinforce Each Other'
- Inter Press Service
The negative fallout from climate change, including drought, floods, melting glaciers, mass migration, and sea level rise, is being increasingly viewed as a potential security threat to nation states worldwide.
ENERGY: To Fly Around the World - Without Fuel
- Inter Press Service
A solar-powered aircraft will take flight next month from Switzerland with hopes ultimately to circle the Earth in 2012, without fuel, and stopping every five days only to change pilots.
MALI: Technology Transfer So Slow 'We’ll Have to Copy Like China'
- Inter Press Service
Cars and motorcycles are stuck because of the heavy rains that have drenched Mali’s capital for the past few days. It is late afternoon and the water, mud and damaged fruit from nearby stalls make the journey for those heading home to celebrate Ramadan even more treacherous.
DEVELOPMENT: NGOs Question World Bank's Clean Energy Roadmap
- Inter Press Service
The World Bank's 2010 World Development Report (WDR), released Tuesday, calls on the developed world to lead global efforts to cut carbon emissions, but some civil society groups remain highly sceptical of the bank's role in brokering climate finance.
AFRICA: 'Why Surrender Market to Subsidised European Goods?'
- Inter Press Service
'Why should we surrender ourselves to the invasion of highly subsidised European goods? What will be the impact of capital outflows because of strategic services such as telecommunication, port, energy and water services being liberalised and privatised in the interest of European companies?'
VIETNAM: Doubts about Small Dams Give Gov’t Headaches
- Inter Press Service
With a generating capacity of only 190 megawatts, the Dak Mi 4 hydropower project being constructed in the central Vietnamese province of Quang Nam is small by international standards.
VENEZUELA: Women Recycle for Income and Environment
- Inter Press Service
The women of this town in northern Venezuela no longer say 'garbage' but rather 'secondary raw material,' and instead of referring to recycling, they talk about 'separation at point of origin.'
MINING-INDIA: Woman Leads Tribals Against World's Steel Maker
- Inter Press Service
The fight against the world's biggest steel maker, ArcelorMittal, is being waged from a tiny tea stall in Ranchi, eastern India.
ASIA: One of World’s Rarest Animals in Danger of Extinction
- Inter Press Service
Conservationists are raising the alarm about the fate of an animal in South-east Asia’s growing list of endangered wildlife, even though the animal in need of saving was only discovered in a remote mountainous corner of Laos in 1992.
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