News headlines for “Environmental Issues”, page 959
CLIMATE CHANGE: More Subsidies for Fossil Fuels in Recovery Plans
- Inter Press Service
Despite the economic slow down, growing numbers of world leaders are calling for urgent action on climate change while many governments used their economic stimulus packages to increase subsidies to the fossil fuel industry.
ECONOMY: ‘‘Africa Should Seize Control of its Development’’
- Inter Press Service
Colonisation can be blamed for Africa’s underdevelopment but today Africans must take their fate in their own hands and become ambitious. The continent badly needs industrialisation but it has fallen back into the trap of merely exporting commodities because of booming prices.
MIDEAST: Gaza Collects So Much Rubbish
- Inter Press Service
Suliman Khodari begins his shift at 5am on one of Gaza City's busiest streets. With his horse-drawn cart, Suliman spends seven hours every morning hauling away the rubbish left by residents and shop owners of the neighbourhood. But he is not a scavenger.
ROMANIA: Foreign Corporation Faces Public Scrutiny
- Inter Press Service
Public pressure from Romanian citizens has forced one of the biggest European producers of wood products, Austrian Kronospan, to halt construction of new production lines and to improve environmental standards at its plants.
YEMEN: Qat Cultivation Draining Water Reserves
- Inter Press Service
The tall green shrubs on Yehia Abdullah's farm in the Haraz mountains produce the bitter-tasting leaves that feed the nation's number one addiction. More than seven million Yemenis chew qat, the mildly narcotic leaf of the Catha edulis tree. Expanding cultivation of qat to meet growing national demand is rapidly depleting Yemen's limited groundwater resources, experts warn.
BOOKS: Canada's Agent Orange Victims Still Seeking Justice
- Inter Press Service
Bruce Brown died of cancer at age 18. Some of Marilyn Kissinger’s other friends lived into their early and late twenties, dying in the late 1960s. Most had died by the late 1980s.
COSTA RICA: Indigenous People Sidelined in Plans for Dam
- Inter Press Service
The Diquís dam, the largest hydroelectric project in Central America, is worrying indigenous communities because Costa Rica’s state power company has excluded them from the decision-making process, in spite of international treaties that stipulate that they must be consulted.
ENVIRONMENT: Damaged Ecosystems Not Lost Forever
- Inter Press Service
Most polluted or damaged ecosystems worldwide could recover within a single lifetime if societies commit to their cleanup or restoration, according to researchers at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies.
BIODIVERSITY-EUROPE: Not Just About a Frog Here or There
- Inter Press Service
Politicians across the European Union are waking up to the fact that biodiversity is fast becoming a crucial environmental issue that needs to be tackled soon.
BRAZIL: Murder, Death Threats Amid Environmental Protests
- Inter Press Service
Environmentalists and human rights activists in Brazil are demanding clarification of the murder of Paulo Santos Souza, a fisherman and trade unionist who was fighting irregularities in the construction of a gas pipeline for Petrobras.
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