News headlines for “Biodiversity”, page 566
MOZAMBIQUE: Climate Change Threatens Smallholder Farmers
- Inter Press Service
Long after the wintry sun set over her patch of crops outside the Mozambican capital Angelina Jossefa keeps pulling out weeds. Much of her lettuce, carrots and beetroot died during a cruel winter, which means she has to work harder to feed her three children.
NEPAL: Adapting to Climate Change Can be Simple
- Inter Press Service
Saraswoti Bhetwal’s terraced fields stand out in the sub-Himalayan Lamdihi village as a mosaic of shapes and colours formed by beans, bitter gourd, chilly, tomato, lady’s fingers and other crops.
Q&A: Climate-Driven Migrants Raise Thorny Legal Issues
- Inter Press Service
As the effects of accelerating climate change ripple outward, pushing millions from their land and homes, experts warn that international human rights and refugee law needs to catch up to the reality on the ground if migrants are to be given adequate protection and support.
Q&A: 'Climate Change Is Affecting Traditional Knowledge'
- Inter Press Service
The traditional knowledge of nature developed since ancestral times by Colombia’s indigenous peoples is increasingly challenged by the unnatural effects of climate change, a phenomenon that is deeply troubling to the keepers of this knowledge, says biologist Brigitte Baptiste.
NAMBIA: No Option but to Adapt to a Changing Climate
- Inter Press Service
Extreme weather conditions predicted because of climate change in Namibia are likely to have a tremendous effect on the 70 percent of the country’s people who live in rural areas and depend heavily on agriculture.
VENEZUELA: Caribbean Town Declares Plastic Bags Non Grata
- Inter Press Service
A Venezuelan municipality where the main industry is oil refining, and that has an import-export 'free zone', is set to become a plastic bag-free area.
THAILAND: The Green Cause Can Kill
- Inter Press Service
In a country where the going rate for a contract killing is around Thai baht 15,000 (500 dollars), the price paid to eliminate Thongnak Sawekchinda, an environmental activist, has caught the police by surprise.
ENVIRONMENT-LATAM: Shrimp Industry Bites Hand That Feeds It
- Inter Press Service
Mangrove forests in silt-laden intertidal coastal ecosystems provide a natural habitat for countless marine species, as well as livelihoods for thousands of families in Latin America and the Caribbean. But mangrove swamps are shrinking year by year, besieged by aquaculture, especially shrimp farming, environmentalists warn.
CLIMATE CHANGE: 'Last Straw' Pushes Millions from Their Homes
- Inter Press Service
With political will to dramatically cut the world's greenhouse gas emissions failing to materialise, a multi-pronged approach is needed to protect the millions of people who are being displaced as a result of environmental factors driven largely by climate change, experts say.
Citizen Group Tracks Down Japan's Radiation
- Inter Press Service
The aftermath of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear crisis has been marked by an outcry in Japan over radiation leaks, contaminated food and a government unable to put the public's fears to rest.
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