News headlines for “Biodiversity”, page 563
U.S. Awash in Oil and Lies, Report Charges
- Inter Press Service
With four times as many oil rigs pumping domestic oil today than eight years ago and declining domestic demand, the United States is awash in oil. In fact, the U.S. exports more oil than it imports, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration - and has done so for nearly two decades.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Brazilian Women Rise Above the Waters
- Inter Press Service
Almost a year and a half after floods wreaked havoc in a large part of the state of Rio de Janeiro, a group of women are struggling to rebuild their lives. They lost everything except their will to pick themselves up again and make the best of the aid they receive, to become self-sufficient again.
SOUTH AFRICA: While Politicians Deliberate Climate Change, Others Adapt
- Inter Press Service
While many scientists, academics and politicians still theorise about ways to adapt to climate change, a South African civil society organisation has launched a hands-on project that mobilises communities to take easy steps to reduce carbon emissions.
Obama Challenged to Stand Up to Big Oil Lobby
- Inter Press Service
The United States' biggest environmental groups put aside their differences last week to make an urgent intervention on the country's addiction to oil. The first step on the long road to recovery, they say, is to stop the proposed construction of the Keystone XL pipeline that will 'mainline' the world's dirtiest oil from northern Canada into the U.S. heartland.
CUBA: Swim at Your Own Risk
- Inter Press Service
They get ready for the jump, a spectacular airborne pirouette follows and then a stream of saltwater spray rounds off the plunge. Dozens of youngsters, mainly boys, cool off from the summer heat with daring dives from the sea wall lining the Malecón, the Cuban capital's famous seaside avenue.
BRAZIL: Rainforest Defenders Marked for Death
- Inter Press Service
Raimundo Francisco Belmiro dos Santos, a defender of the Amazon jungle, has requested urgent protection from the authorities in Brazil after reporting that a number of hired gunmen are looking for him, because landowners in the northern state of Pará have offered a 50,000 dollar contract for his death.
U.S.: New Oil Pipeline Sparks Civil Disobedience
- Inter Press Service
On the tenth day of a protest wave that has been gaining momentum since Aug. 20 and will continue until Sep. 3, nearly 300 people gathered in Lafayette Park directly across from the White House in Washington D.C., chanting, 'When I say 'tar sands', you say 'no!' When I say 'action', you say 'go!''
U.N. Launches Campaign to Break Catch-22 of Statelessness
- Inter Press Service
For the majority of the world’s population, citizenship is a fact of life, something so fundamental that the idea of not being citizen to any state seems unfathomable. Yet for 12 million people worldwide, ordinary life as most people expect it is impossible because they belong to no country and are thus deprived of basic rights.
Palestinians Thirsting for Justice in Water-Starved Occupied Territories
- Inter Press Service
In the strife-stricken Middle East, oil has always been in the realm of politics. But in the Israeli-occupied territories of Gaza and the West Bank, oil has been supplanted by water.
Q&A: NGOs Must Play Key Role in Rio+20 Summit on Sustainable Development
- Inter Press Service
As the United Nations readies for a major international conference on sustainable development next June in Brazil, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) are preparing to play a key role in the run-up to the summit meeting and are preparing a plan of action to be adopted by world leaders.
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