News headlines for “Biodiversity”, page 591
BRAZIL: Porto Alegre Cyclists Step Up Demands for Bike Lanes
- Inter Press Service
In the weeks since a motorist mowed down dozens of cyclists in the southern Brazilian city of Porto Alegre, the incident has becoming a rallying flag in the fight to create a more bike-friendly city.
LATIN AMERICA: Tracking Down Radioactive Food Imports
- Inter Press Service
Rather belatedly, Latin America is beginning to test products imported from Japan to check that they are not contaminated with radioactivity from the Fukushima nuclear power station that was severely damaged by the Mar. 11 earthquake and tsunami.
'No Safe Levels' of Radiation in Japan
- Inter Press Service
In a nuclear crisis that is becoming increasingly serious, Japan’s Nuclear Safety Agency confirmed that radioactive iodine-131 in seawater samples taken near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power complex that was seriously damaged by the recent tsunami off the coast of Japan is 4,385 times the level permitted by law.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Uncertain Future of Kyoto Protocol Alarms Green Groups
- Inter Press Service
With just seven months to go before a pivotal U.N. climate change summit in South Africa, green groups are raising the alarm here about the future of the Kyoto Protocol, the world’s only international treaty that mandates most industrialised nations to cut their environment polluting greenhouse gases (GHG) to save the planet from overheating.
SOUTHERN AFRICA: Assessing the True Value of Water
- Inter Press Service
As water resources in Southern Africa come under pressure from growing population, climate change and increasing industrial and agricultural use, economic accounting for water is among the tools that could aid better management.
UGANDA: Sun Smiling on Renewable Energy Initiative
- Inter Press Service
Clementine Auma was still living in a displaced person's camp in Gulu district when she acquired the treasure she's gone into the house to fetch. She re-emerges from her home with a white box in her arms: a solar oven.
A Fatal Addiction to Plastic
- Inter Press Service
'Be fantastic, don't use plastic!' chanted a troop of 10-year- olds from President Thomas Jefferson Elementary School in Honolulu at the conclusion of an international conference on the millions of tonnes of trash that enter the oceans every year, with serious consequences for marine life and habitats as well as to human health and the global economy.
ARGENTINA: Cutting-Edge Model of Coastal Protection
- Inter Press Service
Governments, environmentalists and private companies have just under four years to establish joint management of 43 protected areas on Argentina’s Atlantic coast, one of the world’s most productive and best preserved biomes.
JAPAN: Disaster Focuses Economic Vulnerability
- Inter Press Service
As authorities struggle to control dangerous radioactive material spilling from the quake ravaged Fukushima nuclear power reactors, a more difficult question has begun to unsettle Japan - is the country’s post-war prosperity as invincible as was believed till now?
INDIA: Fukushima Revives Debate Over Nuclear Liability
- Inter Press Service
The Fukushima disaster has prompted calls to review legislation passed by Indian parliament in August 2010 that capped compensation payable, in the event of a nuclear accident, at 320 million U.S. dollars.
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