News headlines for “Environmental Issues”, page 948
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.
SCIENCE: G8 Failure to Launch on Climate
- Inter Press Service
The G8's failure to make meaningful commitments on climate last week pushes the world ever closer to global climate catastrophe, experts warn. Without commitments to take action, there is little comfort in G8 countries' agreement to keep overall global warming below 2.0 degrees Celsius.
ECONOMY-ZIMBABWE: Government in Two Minds About the Rule of Law
- Inter Press Service
The Zimbabwean government’s international investment conference at the end of last week did little to assuage fears that the country remains far away from re-establishing the rule of law and stopping land invasions.
COLOMBIA: Gold vs Preservation in the Central Mountains
- Inter Press Service
In a protected area of the Cordillera Central, Colombia's central mountain range, gold mining plans are clashing with the desire of farmers, activists and environmental officials to preserve forests and water resources.
G8: Some Aid Can be Hard to Stomach
- Inter Press Service
As numbers go, and as expectations went, 20 billion dollars would be a fair bit for the G8 to produce to fight the food crisis and bring down hunger. Certainly, it was more than most expected.
RIGHTS-AUSTRALIA: Uplifting Aboriginals, a Matter of 'Urgent National Significance'
- Inter Press Service
In this remote Aboriginal town, 420 km south-west of Darwin, Northern Territory’s capital, third world living conditions still prevail despite the Australian government’s efforts to improve life for its oldest inhabitants.
CLIMATE CHANGE: G8 Declares a Lack of Promise
- Inter Press Service
The G8 summit is no climate change meeting, and not formally associated in any sense with the series of negotiating meetings leading up to the climate change conference in Copenhagen in December. But the outcome of a G8 sponsored forum on climate change should get environmentalists worried about any outcome in Copenhagen.
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