News headlines for “Biodiversity”, page 574
U.S.: Climate Change May Pose Biggest Security Threat
- Inter Press Service
As a budget battle rages on in the U.S. Congress and President Barack Obama's military budget comes under increasingly harsh scrutiny, a report released here Thursday by the Institute for Policy Studies suggests that reallocating defence spending towards tackling climate change might be the only solution to the administration's woes.
INDIA: 'Seed-Mothers' Confront Climate Insecurity
- Inter Press Service
In eastern Orissa state’s tribal hinterlands about 200 ‘seed-mothers’ are on mission mode - identifying, collecting and conserving traditional seed varieties and motivating farming families to use them.
U.S. Replaces Japan in Role of Villain on Whales
- Inter Press Service
The United States has taken over the pro-whaling stance traditionally championed by Japan, but instead of supporting the capture of whales for scientific research purposes, it is doing so under the guise of aboriginal subsistence quotas.
U.S.: Floods and Wildfires Trigger New Fears over Nuke Safety
- Inter Press Service
Just 100 days after a deadly earthquake and tsunami devastated the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan, concerns are being raised about several U.S. nuclear stations that are facing natural disasters of their own.
SOUTHERN AFRICA: Trying to Access Funding for Climate Change
- Inter Press Service
Leaving out non-governmental organisations in climate finance strategies will result in little impact on the ground in the southern Africa region.
TRADE: Brazil and Africa Ready to Do the Samba
- Inter Press Service
African trade with India and China flourished over the past decade but, with unemployment rising and industrialisation failing to take hold, cracks are appearing in Africa’s much-vaunted 'Look East' doctrine. Meanwhile, from across the Atlantic, Brazil is making inroads into the continent.
ZAMBIA: 'Every Year Flooding Makes This Place a Little Hell'
- Inter Press Service
During the rainy season, and many weeks afterwards, home is never the best place to be for Miriam Banda. Until the end of 2008, she enjoyed living at her house in Kanyama, a high-density settlement bordering the central business district in Lusaka, Zambia's capital.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Water Sources Need to be Protected
- Inter Press Service
Seventy-five-year-old Verdiana Protas is worried that the 20 cattle she bought with her pension money will soon die because the 10-kilometre-long river in her village in northwest Tanzania has been dry for two years now and finding alternative sources of water is getting more and more difficult.
JAPAN: Renewable Energy Grabs Limelight
- Inter Press Service
After decades of being relegated to the sidelines, Japan’s fledging renewable energy industry is now basking in the limelight as the nation struggles to cope with the Fukushima nuclear accident.
The Oxymoron of Political Leadership
- Inter Press Service
Political will is all that's needed to bring electricity to the 2.5 billion people with no or unreliable access to power, or to feed the one billion who go hungry every day, or to finally begin to slash carbon emissions to avoid dangerous climate change, or just about any other global problem.
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