News headlines for “Biodiversity”, page 125
Bangladesh Coastal People Turn to Digital Devices to Succeed against the Odds
- Inter Press Service
BADARKHALI, Bangladesh, Oct 17 (IPS) - A barefoot young man in rolled-up jeans clutches a laptop as he slogs through a narrow muddy aisle between rice fields on a drizzling late September afternoon. He’s rushing to help a farm couple who are facing trouble with their ducks in a coastal village in southern Bangladesh.
Local Solutions Boost Sustainable Micro-Mobility in Cuba
- Inter Press Service
HAVANA, Oct 17 (IPS) - The incorporation of small electric vehicles for public transport, together with initiatives that encourage the use of bicycles, represent opportunities and challenges for Cuba to sustainably and inclusively combat the chronic problems in urban mobility.
Agroecological Women Farmers Boost Food Security in Perus Highlands
- Inter Press Service
CUZCO, Peru, Oct 13 (IPS) - Lourdes Barreto, 47, says that as an agroecological small farmer she has improved her life and that of Mother Earth. "I love myself as I love Mother Earth and I have learned to value both of us," she says in her field outside the village of Huasao, in the highlands of the southern Peruvian department of Cuzco.
IPBES, IPCC Joint Winners of the Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity 2022 Dedicated to Climate Change
- Inter Press Service
Nairobi, Oct 13 (IPS) - IPBES’ assessment report on the Sustainable Use of Wild Species, released in July 2022, painted a troubling picture of the ongoing global biodiversity crisis that could paralyse economies and endanger food security and livelihoods.
Doubts about Chiles Green Hydrogen Boom
- Inter Press Service
SANTIAGO, Oct 12 (IPS) - In Magallanes, Chile's southernmost region, doubts and questions are being raised about the environmental impact of turning this area into the world's leading producer of green hydrogen.
Delivering Quality Education in Small Island Developing States
- Inter Press Service
APIA, Samoa, Oct 10 (IPS) - With 147 million children around the world missing half of their in-person instruction over the last two years and around 24 million never returning to school, humanity is experiencing a deep learning crisis.
Addressing the Cow in the Room, Lowing for Nutrition and Livelihoods
- Inter Press Service
Bulawayo, Oct 07 (IPS) - Meat, milk, and eggs are bad for you, and livestock is bad for the environment.
More Than 1,700 Environmental Defenders Were Killed in the Last Decade
- Inter Press Service
BUENOS AIRES, Oct 07 (IPS) - Since November 2020, the threats, intimidation and pressure I have experienced due to my work in defence of human rights and nature are similar to those suffered by dozens of leaders living in the region. I have lived through the assassinations of three friends and environmental leaders.”
Biomethane from Garbage: Turning a Climate Enemy into Clean Energy - VIDEO
- Inter Press Service
FORTALEZA, Brazil, Oct 07 (IPS) - Garbage that has accumulated since 1991 in the two landfills in the municipality of Caucaia has become a biomethane deposit that supplies industrial and commercial companies, thermoelectric plants and homes in Ceará, a state in northeastern Brazil.
Africa is not a Country. It is a Continent.
- Inter Press Service
BRUSSELS (IDN), Oct 06 (IPS) - “If all I knew about Africa were from popular images, I too would think that Africa was a place of beautiful landscapes, beautiful animals and incomprehensible people, fighting senseless wars, dying of poverty and AIDS, unable to speak for themselves”. This quote from the Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is in the introduction to Dipo Faloyin's book 'Africa is not a country'. It summarizes Faloyin's book nicely.
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