News headlines for “Environmental Issues”, page 936
LATIN AMERICA: 'The More Guns, the More Violence'
- Inter Press Service
Traffic in light weapons and small arms is one of Latin America's major disarmament concerns, because they fuel urban violence, especially in countries like Mexico, Guatemala and Brazil.
CUBA: Scientists, Farmers Fighting Climate Change - Together
- Inter Press Service
Cuba is facing the challenge of boosting agricultural output under difficult climate conditions and on soils badly deteriorated by erosion, salinity and other problems. And scientists have a strategic role to play, provided they do not sit in their laboratories but get out into the fields where the action is.
SOUTHERN AFRICA: Zimbabwe Must Abide By SADC Decisions
- Inter Press Service
Condemning Zimbabwe’s withdrawal from a regional tribunal which ruled its state-orchestrated land seizures illegal, civil society groups have said the country should abide by decisions of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) or pull out of the regional body entirely.
Q&A: The World Needs a Marshall Plan for Climate Change
- Inter Press Service
When world leaders meet for a mega talk-fest on climate change at the United Nations in late September, the focus will be more on politics and less on finance.
ENVIRONMENT: Desert Winds Stir New Hope
- Inter Press Service
With oil and gas reserves running dry, the most populous country in the Arab world is eyeing wind power as a solution to its looming energy crunch.
SOUTHERN AFRICA: 'Women Can Be More Than Small-Scale Farmers'
- Inter Press Service
'Government must lead in breaking down the stereotypes of women as tuck-shop owners, candle-makers, peasant farmers, teachers and nurses and create the reality in which they become hoteliers, large-scale commercial farmers, miners and proprietors of retail chains.'
CLIMATE CHANGE: Survival Means Anticipating and Adapting
- Inter Press Service
Imagine being able to know months in advance when and where floods or droughts may occur. That is what over 150 countries participating in the third World Climate Conference, which concluded last Friday in Geneva, pledged to achieve through the creation of a Global Framework for Climate Services.
RIGHTS-INDIA: HIV-Positive Women Get User Rights to Till Land
- Inter Press Service
Till four months back, 33-year-old Mugil hardly ventured out of her parent’s home, preferring to stay indoors and tend to the household chores.
ENVIRONMENT-CHINA: What Makes A Good Dam?
- Inter Press Service
The Chinese government needs to engage local communities in harnessing its vast water and hydropower resources and pursuing sustainable development, says environmental advocate Yu Xiaogang, recipient of the 2009 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Participatory Social Impact Assessment for Watershed Management.
SOUTH AMERICA: Glaciers - Going, Going Gone?
- Inter Press Service
South America is perhaps most often associated with the Amazon jungle, the world's largest tropical rainforest. But along its western edge, from Ecuador to southern Chile and Argentina, it also harbours huge glaciers which are rapidly melting due to global warming.
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