News headlines for “Biodiversity”, page 567
School Gardens Promote Learning While Fighting Hunger
- Inter Press Service
'Yesterday I planted 20 broccoli plants at home. God willing, they will grow and we will be able to eat them,' said 12-year-old Juan Francisco Ordóñez, a student at a school in San Cristóbal Totonicapán where a school garden has been established in an attempt to alleviate hunger.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Welcome to Bizarro World
- Inter Press Service
Canada and the United States are now the centre of Bizarro World. This is where leaders promise to reduce carbon emissions but ensure a new, supersized oil pipeline called Keystone XL is built, guaranteeing further expansion of the Alberta tar sands that produce the world's most carbon-laden oil.
OP-ED: The Missing Truth in the BP Oil Disaster
- Inter Press Service
More than a year after a private company operating in public waters retched 170 million gallons of crude and two million gallons of toxic dispersants into the Gulf of Mexico, creating an environmental catastrophe, we still lack reliable statistics on the BP oil disaster's impact on the health of residents.
CUBA: Petrochemical Complex Poses Major Environmental Challenge
- Inter Press Service
As it gears up for the creation of a major petrochemical complex of regional scope, this Cuban city faces the challenge of ensuring the sustainability of development that could compromise the health of the Bay of Cienfuegos, its main natural resource.
Somali Women Bear Superhuman Burden
- Inter Press Service
While the exit of the Al-Qaeda-backed rebel group Al Shabaab has led to the first U.N. relief airlift in five years in the capital of famine-wracked Somalia, the situation for women and children remains precarious, humanitarian workers warn.
OP-ED: New Pipeline to Challenge Obama's Promises
- Inter Press Service
It took some serious digging in the sock drawer, but eventually I found my 'Environmentalists for Obama' button left over from the '08 campaign. I needed it because I'm headed to Washington in a couple of weeks to get arrested in front of the White House, and I wanted to make sure I wouldn't be misunderstood.
NEPAL: Improved Wood Stoves Save Health, Environment
- Inter Press Service
When Binita Lamichhane got married she was troubled by her husband's bloodshot eyes. 'What happened to your eyes?' the 18-year-old bride asked. 'Smoke,' came the answer.
Q&A: 'Governments Must Listen to the People, Not the Polluters'
- Inter Press Service
The historic 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro marked one of the world's seminal international conferences on the environment, creating or reinforcing a slew of U.N. treaties and protocols on climate change, biodiversity, desertification and forests.
Ethnocentric Fishing Practices Threaten Hawaiian Communities
- Inter Press Service
As the world gears up to celebrate the International Day of the World's Indigenous People on Aug. 9, a joint lawsuit filed Wednesday in Hawaii's Federal District Court against the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reveals the interconnectedness of environmental destruction and violations of native people's rights.
Climate Changes Bring Harsh Reality for Native Americans
- Inter Press Service
In Shishmaref, an Inupiaq village on an Alaskan barrier island north of the Bering Strait, a way of life is gradually disappearing due to higher temperatures, rising sea levels, declining numbers of sea animals to hunt, and shrinking shorelines wrought by climate change.
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