News headlines for “Environmental Issues”, page 940
BIODIVERSITY: Amateur Biologists Join Global Bid to Catalog Species
- Inter Press Service
Save the living environment and the physical environment will automatically be saved, according to E.O. Wilson, the world's leading biologist and father of the online Encyclopedia of Life, which plans to create a web page for every known species - all 1.8-plus million.
EUROPE: Easterly Wind Picks Up
- Inter Press Service
The natural conditions in Romania and Bulgaria make these countries some of the best placed in Europe for producing wind energy. Interest in investing in wind power is high in both countries, but legislative ambiguity and the limited capacity of national electricity grids are delaying the building of new wind parks.
WATER-NAMIBIA: Running A Dry River
- Inter Press Service
The Omaruru River basin is one of the first in Namibia to establish a basin management committee. Its members have a difficult balancing act to perform with a water resource that’s already being utilised to its maximum.
CHILE: The Environmental Fight Starts in Your Neighbourhood
- Inter Press Service
A working-class neighbourhood on the outskirts of the capital, which stood united against the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet in the 1970s and 1980s and today is doing so against climate change, is launching the country's first 'ecobarrio' project.
ENVIRONMENT: New Maritime Rules Target Oil Spills in Antarctica
- Inter Press Service
The ships that bring thousands of tourists to Antarctica to take in some of the most pristine landscapes in the world will have to adapt to new marine environmental standards, which could be stricter than those requested by the members of the Antarctic Treaty.
MIGRATION-PORTUGAL: Pitfalls in the Path to Paradise
- Inter Press Service
Some 200 million people, three percent of the world's population, have left their country of origin to pursue happiness elsewhere, according to the International Organisation for Migration. But their dreams are often shattered by human trafficking rings and unscrupulous employers.
TRADE: France Is Breaking the EU’s Controversial Subsidies Rules
- Inter Press Service
The European Commission is demanding that the French government pays back 500 million euros spent on aid to French farmers. The scheme is in breach of European competition law as it financed competition with France’s neighbours by providing vegetable and fruit producers with hefty subsidies for more than a decade.
BRAZIL: Former Environment Minister Shakes Up Political Scene
- Inter Press Service
A likely presidential bid by former Brazilian environment minister Marina Silva, who quit the ruling Workers Party (PT) this week, has shaken up the political scene ahead of the 2010 elections.
DEVELOPMENT: Political Power Dictates Transboundary Waters
- Inter Press Service
A longstanding quote attributed, rightly or wrongly, to the legendary author and humourist Mark Twain has been reverberating in the conference rooms of the Swedish capital: 'Whisky is for drinking, water is for fighting over.'
TRADE: Namibia Caught in Stand-Off Between South Africa and EU
- Inter Press Service
Access to the European markets is not a goal Namibia wants to accomplish at all costs. Neither is the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) holy. What counts in the country’s realpolitik approach is a close relationship with its neighbours, especially regional economic powerhouse South Africa but also oil-rich Angola.
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