News headlines for “Biodiversity”, page 131
UN's Education Summit: An Opportunity to Create a Bottom-Up Global Governance
- Inter Press Service
KATHMANDU, Nepal, Aug 10 (IPS) - The upcoming summit on Education, part of the UN Secretary General’s ambitious agenda, can truly bring accountability and participation to the inevitably new ways education will be imparted in the future.
Indigenous Women at the Forefront of Transformational Change
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 08 (IPS) - The International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, commemorated annually on August 9, is a day to celebrate the many contributions of the 476 million Indigenous peoples worldwide.
The Plastic Crisis Has Deep Corporate Roots: To Protect Our Planet, They Need To Be Exposed
- Inter Press Service
Aug 05 (IPS) - This spring, I taught a new undergraduate course in environmental sociology. Most of my students took the course because they were curious to see what their desire to live more sustainably had to do with sociology.
Researchers Embrace Artificial Intelligence to Tackle Banana Disease in Burundi
- Inter Press Service
KIGALI, Aug 05 (IPS) - A group of scientists involved in finding solutions to minimize the impact of a devastating banana virus in Burundi have developed an Artificial Intelligence (AI) tool for monitoring the disease.
Doubts Raised Over Conditions of Mexico's Mangroves
- Inter Press Service
SINANCHÉ, Mexico, Aug 02 (IPS) - Two extremes of coastal development can be found side-by-side in the small community of San Crisanto, in the municipality of Sinanché in Mexico’s southeastern Yucatán state.
Slow food, Accelerating Biodiversity in the Field and On Our Plates
- Inter Press Service
BULAWAYO, Aug 02 (IPS) - Edward Mukiibi was forced to do agriculture at school as punishment for misbehaviour.
Biogas Production Awaits Greater Incentives in Cuba
- Inter Press Service
HAVANA, Aug 02 (IPS) - Standing in front of a blue flame on her stove, getting ready to brew coffee, Mayra Rojas says the biodigester built in the backyard of her home in western Cuba has become a key part of her daily life and a pillar of her family's well-being.
Bangladesh Plans to Launch Toll-free SMS Flood Warning
- Inter Press Service
DHAKA, Aug 01 (IPS) - Ziaur Rahman, a farmer of Pakuar Char under Sariakandi Upazila in Bogura, cultivated jute on a newly emerged river island (char) in the Brahmaputra River, but this year’s flood washed away his crop.
Of the Secret Leaks and the Baking Planet
- Inter Press Service
MADRID, Jul 29 (IPS) - Strangely enough, two major scientific findings, both announced in July, did not attribute the current dangerous world’s disasters to the proxy war unfolding in Ukraine.
Heat Waves and Agricultural Production: In the Race to Mitigate Extreme Heat, We Must not Forget Strengthening Agriculture
- Inter Press Service
URBANA, Illinois, USA, Jul 29 (IPS) - Across the U.S., and around the world, particularly Europe, heat records are being shattered. Accompanying these extreme temperatures are fires caused by the heat that are burning both homes and forests. While extreme heat is impacting some areas of the world, flooding is impacting other areas including Colorado and Virginia in the U.S., and in other countries around the world including Brazil and Ecuador.
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