News headlines for “Biodiversity”, page 578
BANGLADESH: Ship Breakers Defy Court Ruling on Toxic Vessels
- Inter Press Service
The ship breaking companies of Bangladesh continue to import highly toxic foreign vessels despite a two-year-old ban, and are also defying a court order to ensure workers’ safety and implement environmentally sound practices, a group of lawyers says.
MALDIVES: Mining ‘Smoking Mountain’ of Rubbish for Energy
- Inter Press Service
Most visitors to the Maldives — a string of islands southwest of Sri Lanka — won’t miss the so-called 'smoking mountain' made from local residents’ trash as well as the garbage tourists leave behind in resorts nearby.
Kashmir Conflict Spares Wildlife
- Inter Press Service
Thousands of people have died in 20 years of turmoil in Kashmir in northern India, but the conflict seems to have spared the animal population, particularly the severely endangered Kashmir stag or 'hangul' whose population has grown in recent years.
Climate Regulatory Gap Could Result After 2012 Kyoto Expiration
- Inter Press Service
The growing awareness that the ongoing U.N. climate change talks here won’t deliver a treaty to extend the international governance regime on reducing greenhouse gas emissions after 2012, is driving environmental experts to foster alternative solutions to global warming.
HAITI: Behind the Closed Doors of Port-au-Prince 'Reconstruction'
- Inter Press Service
Almost 17 months after the Jan. 12, 2010, earthquake that devastated Port-au-Prince and three other cities, reconstruction of the capital’s downtown appears stalled, and over 800,000 people still live in tents — some 30,000 of them right across from the collapsed National Palace.
Reducing Soot and Smog Would Help Stabilise Climate
- Inter Press Service
Clean the air, cool the planet and prevent millions of deaths with fast action on soot and smog, a new report urges.
Biodiverse Venezuela Flunking Basic Conservation
- Inter Press Service
Threats to biodiversity, spreading pollution, degraded river basins and disappearing forests are problems in oil-rich, megadiverse Venezuela, where climate change is knocking on the door.
Industrial Food Production Fuels Spread of E. Coli
- Inter Press Service
In the 1998 medical thriller 'Toxin' by U.S. novelist Robin Cook, the ground beef in hamburgers is contaminated with a deadly strain of the Escherichia coli or E. coli bacterium, unleashing a massive epidemic. The novel was inspired by a real outbreak that had taken place several years earlier.
Industrial Food Production Fuels Spread of E. Coli
- Inter Press Service
In the 1998 medical thriller 'Toxin' by U.S. novelist Robin Cook, the ground beef in hamburgers is contaminated with a deadly strain of the Escherichia coli or E. coli bacterium, unleashing a massive epidemic. The novel was inspired by a real outbreak that had taken place several years earlier.
Canada Spurns Kyoto in Favour of Tar Sands
- Inter Press Service
Canada was roundly criticised by other nations at a major U.N. climate meeting last week after being caught underreporting carbon emissions from its tar sands oil production facilities, one of the country's biggest and fastest growing sources of global warming gases.
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