News headlines for “Environmental Issues”, page 950
G8: It Will Be a Tale of Two Summits
- Inter Press Service
There is a reason that eight and five do not add up to 13 when it comes to the G8. And it is not just that the five developing countries that now attend the summit of the eight mighty ones as a matter of course are less rich. It's because they have their own way to go, and parallel with the G8 meet, their own summit to attend.
AGRICULTURE: A Stormy Time for Indigenous Wisdom
- Inter Press Service
Indigenous peoples risk losing control over their traditional knowledge if the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) insists on strict standards for managing access to information.
TRANSPORT-BRAZIL: Recharge Your Batteries Here
- Inter Press Service
Brazil has long been committed to developing alternatives to fossil fuels to power its vehicle fleet, to the extent that 90 percent of new cars sold in the country are flex-fuel, running on ethanol or gasoline in any proportion. Now the government is embarking on another technological field: electric vehicles.
G8: Not Everyone Is Following the Leaders
- Inter Press Service
Many civil society organisations are staying on in Sardinia island in support of a region severely affected by the economic crisis, after the G8 leaders summit was moved from there to the city of L'Aquila.
ENVIRONMENT-LAOS: Rubber Plantations Spawn Social Strife
- Inter Press Service
For decades, rubber plantations in the country's Mekong region have reaped huge profits for local businessmen. However, this industry, long regarded a blessing, is now increasingly becoming a source of social strife.
AGRICULTURE-AFRICA: Calls for Sustainable Green Revolution
- Inter Press Service
Africa needs a Green Revolution, but one that will increase agricultural productivity by using practices that build soil fertility while minimising harm to the environment.
DEVELOPMENT-KENYA: Fears Over New Land Deal
- Inter Press Service
Concern is mounting in Kenya that the government has leased a big slice of agricultural land to the Qatari foreign investors to produce food for export.
PERU: Petroleum Sullies the Amazon
- Inter Press Service
'Now the fish are going to disappear,' said Luis Umpunchi, an Awajún Indian, one of about 20 people gathered around a broken oil pipeline in the Jayais community, in the northern Peruvian province of Amazonas.
AGRICULTURE: Biotechnology: Africa Must Not Be Left Behind
- Inter Press Service
Africa must embrace agricultural biotechnology or risk being excluded from a major technological revolution that has had increased food production in the Europe, North America and Asia.
HEALTH: Sri Lanka's Battle With Dengue
- Inter Press Service
Sri Lankan health authorities have had to combat an upsurge in cases of the lethal Dengue flu in the island nation this year. They have used mass man-power, public awareness campaigns and even threatened incarceration to stem the spread of the killer disease that has touched epidemic levels in the past six months. But it won’t be easy to stop the disease from spreading.
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