News headlines for “Environmental Issues”, page 938
MEXICO: Houses Put to Flood and Hurricane Test
- Inter Press Service
Federico Martínez was born in a land of hurricanes. As a young boy in Mexico he saw the wind uproot trees and roll wooden houses 'as if they were shoe boxes.' As an adult, he developed a house that can withstand winds up to 300 kilometres per hour and floods three metres deep.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Earth's Fridge Defrosting, With Dire Results
- Inter Press Service
The rapidly warming Arctic region is destabilising Earth's climate in ways science is just beginning to comprehend.
SOUTH AFRICA: Price Fixing Can Land Company Directors in Jail
- Inter Press Service
A series of high-profile cases in which big South African companies have been found guilty of fixing the prices of even basic foodstuffs have led to the adoption of a new law that will allow directors and managers to be sent to jail for 10 years or receive a fine of 45,000 euros.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Early Warning Systems for the Coming Storm
- Inter Press Service
Climate change is here. The challenge in Geneva this week is to find ways to help the world cope with a climate that will have more and worse extremes in terms of temperatures, floods, and storms.
UGANDA: Carbon Trading Scheme Pushing People off Their Land
- Inter Press Service
With the world’s attention focused on climate change, one of the methods suggested to reduce global carbon emissions is causing the displacement of indigenous persons as western companies rush to invest in tree-planting projects in developing countries.
ENERGY-CANADA: 'It's Like the Wild West Out Here'
- Inter Press Service
The once serene road to Tim and Linda Ewert's organic farm near Tomslake in northeastern British Columbia has become a mess of dust clouds, drilling rigs and hordes of pick-up trucks as the area transforms into the newest frontier of Canada's natural gas boom.
DEVELOPMENT-US: Gentrification Fears Dog Sustainable Transport
- Inter Press Service
As U.S. cities consider the urgent need for sustainable public transportation options, advocates are looking for ways to achieve the environmental benefits of such projects without displacing residents through gentrification of surrounding areas.
AGRICULTURE: Piecing a Living Together In Rural South Africa
- Inter Press Service
It's early spring in the fertile Breede River farming region, with the fruit orchards a blur of pink blossoms and the first green shoots starting to sprout in the vineyards, but for household gardener Ishmael Shiki it's been a bad start to the growing season.
MEXICO: Biological Remedy for Sickened Soil
- Inter Press Service
Mexico is beginning to take on the environmental debts left by the oil industry, applying biological techniques to break down alcohols, solvents, glycerines, gasoline, benzene and acetone, turning them into carbon dioxide and water.
AGRICULTURE-ETHIOPIA: Changing Mindset Over Markets
- Inter Press Service
In 2001/2002, Ethiopia enjoyed a bumper maize harvest - so good in fact, that prices tumbled, and many farmers simply left the grain in the fields. When the rains failed the next season, famine loomed.
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