News headlines for “Environmental Issues”, page 947
ENVIRONMENT-BRAZIL: Red Card for Porto Alegre?
- Inter Press Service
The southern Brazilian city of Porto Alegre, a pioneer in participatory budgets and environmental policies, and habitual host of the enormous World Social Forum, has returned to the international stage.
Q&A: The Threatened Have Some Friends
- Inter Press Service
Declining amphibian populations, dwindling fish stocks, waning ocean biodiversity, loss of forests...All scientists acknowledge that the rate of species loss is greater now than at any time in human history.
AFRICA: Organic Farming Could be Answer to Food Insecurity
- Inter Press Service
Commercial farmers sometimes fail at organic farming because they switch over too quickly, ditching all chemicals, which is as traumatic for the soil as 'a drug addict going cold turkey'.
ECONOMY-AFRICA: The State Is Back, Announces UNCTAD
- Inter Press Service
The state is back; neo-liberal policies have failed; and the liberalisation of trade should be halted. These are some of the findings and recommendations from the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) for the poorest countries, most of which are in Africa.
Q&A: 'Farmers Can Gain From Crisis'
- Inter Press Service
The financial crisis could actually boost agriculture in Latin America, Josefina Stubbs, director of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) division for Latin America and the Caribbean tells IPS in an interview.
ENVIRONMENT-BRAZIL: Take the Squeaky Clean Hydro Bus
- Inter Press Service
The government of the state of Sao Paulo in southern Brazil has launched the first hydrogen-fuelled bus in Latin America - the first step towards environmentally sustainable public transport of the future.
GUATEMALA: Relentless Devastation of Mangroves
- Inter Press Service
'This place used to be beautiful. It was truly a mangrove forest. When the shrimp farmers arrived, we lost 60 percent of it because of the logging,' said Francisco Vásquez, manager of a hotel on the Pacific coast, in the southeastern Guatemalan department of Jutiapa.
ENVIRONMENT-MAURITIUS: Hold Your Fire
- Inter Press Service
Mauritius appears to have a happy problem with the 400,000 tons of waste it produces each year. The island’s only landfill is full and the government must decide whether to turn to incinerating waste - generating electricity in the process - to or compost it, to the benefit of farmers.
WORLD-TRADE: 'Make Doha Round About Development Again'
- Inter Press Service
The present global economic crisis and the need to reform the international financial architecture should encourage a return to the original focus on development in the international negotiations on agriculture, trade and development, also known as the Doha Round, according to two economists studying the issue.
ENERGY: Germany Gets Some Nuclear Jolts
- Inter Press Service
The faults at the nuclear plant at Kruemmel near Hamburg surfaced just three days after Chancellor Angela Merkel declared nuclear energy 'indispensable' to Germany.
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