News headlines for “Biodiversity”, page 571
U.S.: Coal Ash New Focus of Dispute Over Health Hazards
- Inter Press Service
Survey your surroundings and you'll discover that coal ash - waste from coal burned to produce electricity - is more present in everyday life than you might expect. To name a few places: toothpaste, cosmetics, wallboard, cement, and agricultural and winter de-icing products.
Security Council Won't Take Stand on Climate Change
- Inter Press Service
The United Nations Security Council failed to reach agreement on a non-binding statement Wednesday aseerting that climate change should be recognised as an international peace and security issue.
Growing Water Deficit Threatening Grain Harvests
- Inter Press Service
Many countries are facing dangerous water shortages. As world demand for food has soared, millions of farmers have drilled too many irrigation wells in efforts to expand their harvests. As a result, water tables are falling and wells are going dry in some 20 countries containing half the world's people.
Eleven Million at Risk in Horn of Africa
- Inter Press Service
'I have never seen anything like it. Many mothers have lost three or four children. It's a tragedy out here,' Austin Kennan, regional director for the Horn of Africa for Concern Worldwide, told IPS from within the crisis zone.
Burkina Faso Losing Thousands of Hectares of Forests Each Year
- Inter Press Service
The Burkina Faso authorities have sounded the alarm over the increased rate of degradation of forests in this Sahelian country.
LATIN AMERICA: Sustainable Development, Not 'Green Economy'
- Inter Press Service
With less than a year to go for the Rio+20 Summit, civil society in Latin America and the Caribbean is mustering its strength to defend the principles of sustainable development, as opposed to the model of a 'green economy', which it views as only benefiting the business interests of big companies.
Ailing Tuna Fisheries Hit Hard by Poachers
- Inter Press Service
Miles away from the briny business of tuna harvesting, delegates from around the world gathered in San Diego, California for three days in mid-July to discuss the future of the fishing industry.
Latin America Has One-Fifth of Global Oil Reserves
- Inter Press Service
Fossil fuels are an energy source condemned by environmentalists, but do not appear to be on the way out in Latin America and the Caribbean, given the rise in the region's proven oil reserves in recent years.
ECUADOR: Fate of Untapped Oil Hangs in the Balance - of Trust Fund
- Inter Press Service
'Ecuador will not wait ad infinitum' for a decision by the international community, and 'at the end of the year' President Rafael Correa will decide whether to extract oil that was to have been left underground at the Yasuní nature reserve, non-renewable natural resources minister Wilson Pástor has announced.
Spanish NGO Recycles Used Oil into Solidarity with Peru
- Inter Press Service
Tons of artisanal soaps made from recycled olive oil are regularly shipped from Spain to Peru, where their sale and use helps finance local development and education for children in poor communities.
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