News headlines for “Biodiversity”, page 582
CENTRAL AMERICA: Caught in the Rain Without an Umbrella
- Inter Press Service
'A year ago the river burst its banks; my house was ruined, I lost everything and I'm still waiting for help,' Candelaria Peneleu told IPS from her modest home in Palín in the southern province of Escuintla, an area of Guatemala that was devastated last year by tropical storm Agatha.
PHILIPPINES: Biodiversity Threatened Before It’s Discovered
- Inter Press Service
'Every time we go in the water, someone discovers something that's never been seen before,' says Dr. Terrence Gosliner, leader of the ongoing 2011 Philippine Biodiversity Expedition.
Iceland Pushes Energetically Ahead
- Inter Press Service
Iceland’s national power company, Landsvirkjun, has announced that it intends to double its generating capacity over the next 15 years, with a blend consisting mostly of hydroelectric and geothermal plants but potentially using wind and tidal energy as well.
LIBYA: Water Emerges as a Hidden Weapon
- Inter Press Service
Libya’s enormous aquatic reserves could potentially become a new weapon of choice if government forces opt to starve coastal cities that heavily rely on free flowing freshwater.
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Macadamia Trees Offer Lifeline to Small Farmers
- Inter Press Service
A project to help reforest after the devastation of Hurricane David 32 years ago has grown into a plan to lift small coffee farmers out of poverty, all by the introduction of a gourmet ice cream.
Key Fisheries Treaty to Lapse in Rebuke to U.S.
- Inter Press Service
For the past quarter century, the United States' relations with Pacific island nations were framed by the South Pacific Tuna Treaty, which combines foreign aid, subsidies to the U.S. fleet of purse-seine fishing vessels and their largely unfettered access to the islands' waters, which contain the world's last major stocks of tuna.
World Bank Calibrating its Measurement of Sustainability
- Inter Press Service
The World Bank is working to update the mechanisms it uses to measure the effects of the financing it provides, particularly in environmental and social terms, now that it is gearing up to administer the new Green Climate Fund.
Europe Sowing the Seeds of Hunger
- Inter Press Service
Europe is facing a hungry future unless it changes agricultural policies and makes farmers the main participants in agriculture research, a new report has found. And there is little hope of meeting Europe's recently announced goal of reducing the loss of biodiversity in ten years without making those changes.
JAPAN: Woodpecker Finds Allies Against U.S. Helicopters
- Inter Press Service
At the foot of the pristine Yanbaru forest at the northern tip of Okinawa, Japan, a small cluster of tents gives shelter to a group of protestors guarding the area against the planned construction of six new military helipads for the U.S. forces on the island.
A Dark Day for Brazil's Amazon Jungle
- Inter Press Service
The same day that the lower house of the Brazilian Congress approved a reform of the forestry code that would make it easier to clear land in the Amazon jungle for agriculture, a husband and wife team of activists who spent years fighting illegal deforestation in the rainforest were murdered.
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