News headlines for “Environmental Issues”, page 939
AFRICA: Climate Change 'is a Security Issue'
- Inter Press Service
Africa is the canary in the mine of global security, as climate change threatens to redraw the maps of the continent and the world.
RIGHTS-CAMBODIA: Newest Evacuation ‘Biggest in Decades’
- Inter Press Service
Dozens of families this week started dismantling their homes and moving away from lakeside land in the centre of the capital after giving up on their lengthy struggle to remain. By the end of the eviction process at this site, around 30,000 people will have been moved off now-valuable land.
Q&A: 'African Farmers Benefit When They Organise Themselves'
- Inter Press Service
Research into an initiative to improve the lot of Ghanaian farmers shows how important it is that farmers organise themselves to improve their bargaining power with buyers.
ENERGY: Pipeline Sabotage Blows Image of Stable Canada
- Inter Press Service
North America's largest natural gas corporation hopes a one-million-dollar bounty will take down the saboteur who is blowing up their pipelines in northern Canada.
WATER-NAMIBIA: For What Does It Profit a Man...
- Inter Press Service
'Our profit so far is 5,000 Namibian dollars, divided by twenty people,' reports Anna Nauses. Silence descends on the office of the Prosopis Project in Okombahe as all do the math. Sixteen months of hard labour felling water-thirsty trees along the Omaruru River has yielded just 30 U.S. dollars per person.
CUBA: El Niño Taming the Hurricanes
- Inter Press Service
The cyclical climate phenomenon known as El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) in the equatorial Pacific Ocean this year is helping weaken cyclone activity in the Northern Atlantic and the Caribbean. But Cuban meteorologists are warning against complacency.
EUROPE: Wind Becomes More Energising
- Inter Press Service
The 12 giant wind turbines tower more than 100 metres above the sea, some 50 kilometres north of Borkum island in the North Sea close to the border with the Netherlands.
ENVIRONMENT: ‘Water Recklessness Worsening Drought’
- Inter Press Service
India’s current dry spell, brought on by an errant annual monsoon, is rapidly turning into a full-fledged drought as a result of reckless exploitation of groundwater resources for farming, experts say.
ENVIRONMENT: Ozone Treaty May Hold Key to Halting Climate Change
- Inter Press Service
Will the world take the easy step to phase out 'super' greenhouse gases hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) - using the existing Montreal Protocol ozone treaty? Doing so would be equivalent to preventing the release of 118 to 224 billion metric tonnes of carbon dioxide by 2050, according to a report by the Environmental Investigation Agency.
Q&A: Regional Trade Integration Is About Give and Take
- Inter Press Service
It’s 'do or die' for the world’s oldest customs union. Disagreement over the development consequences of the EU’s proposed economic partnership agreements (EPAs) with African states has threatened to split the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) a year before its centenary in 2010.
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