News headlines for “Environmental Issues”, page 953
ENVIRONMENT: Earth Can Generate Summer out of Winter
- Inter Press Service
Iceland manages to produce tomatoes, paprika and cucumbers all year round by harnessing geothermal energy locally, even though the growing season is short.
Q&A: 'Biodiversity Is Essential Ingredient in Agriculture'
- Inter Press Service
The promotion of biodiversity in agriculture needs political backing, Emile Frison, Bioversity International Director-General tells IPS in an interview. This kind of biodiversity can provide food security and promote health, he says.
HEALTH: Climate Change Brings New Diseases
- Inter Press Service
As its name suggests, the West Nile virus, a leading cause of a form of meningitis and a neuro-invasive disease, has until recently been reported mostly in tropical and sub-tropical African regions. But it is now about to become a global virus.
ENVIRONMENT-TANZANIA: Protecting the World's Most Expensive Tree
- Inter Press Service
With the snow-capped peak of Mount Kilimanjaro providing a backdrop under simmering tropical sunshine, a group of women in Mijongweni village break into song.
INDIA: US Congressmen Tell Dow to Clean Up Bhopal
- Inter Press Service
A campaign in the United States led by two girl victims from Bhopal, highlighting lingering toxicity left behind by the 1984 gas disaster in their city, has paid off with a group of 27 members of the U.S. Congress asking Dow Chemicals to clean up the site.
MEXICO: Scientists and Communities Forge Eco-Alliances
- Inter Press Service
Graciela González answers phone calls, organises meetings and gives interviews as part of her work to save a river from ecological disaster. Thousands of kilometres away, farmer Gonzalo Rodríguez helps take air samples in a region polluted by petrochemicals.
MIDEAST: Attack on Water Brings Sanitation Crisis
- Inter Press Service
'Biddun mey, fish heyya', they say in Arabic for a universal truth: 'Without water, there is no life'.
AFRICA: ‘‘Boost Development Through Labour Intensive Farming’’
- Inter Press Service
Development in Africa should be boosted through labour-intensive production on small to medium sized farms. To advance food security in Africa, governments should assist small farmers with credit lines and infrastructure while buffering them against fluctuations in world food prices.
DEVELOPMENT: China Reins in Dam Builders
- Inter Press Service
Beijing has reined in China’s unbridled dam-building spree, issuing warnings to power-hungry developers that stimulating the economy in a time of crisis should not be used as an excuse to forego environmental reviews of big hydroelectric projects.
Q&A: 'Variety Can Protect Against Famine'
- Inter Press Service
How many varieties of date palm or melon exist? And why should we care? IPS spoke to three 'Guardians of Diversity' so named by Bioversity International for their contribution to conservation.
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