News headlines for “Biodiversity”, page 594
CHINA: Sympathy for Japan Drowns Out Historic Hate
- Inter Press Service
Despite deep historic tensions between the two Asian powers, a surge of sympathy has emerged among Chinese toward victims of last week’s earthquake and resulting tsunami in northern Japan, which has left an estimated 10,000 dead or missing.
LATIN AMERICA: Brick-Making Industry Confronts Its Climate Impacts
- Inter Press Service
Wearing rolled up trousers and a spattered shirt, Carlos Frías mixes mud, water and manure to prepare a row of red bricks.
AFRICA: Anxious Eyes on Green Climate Fund
- Inter Press Service
The African Development Bank says it is concerned about administrative delays holding up progress on the Green Climate Fund - one of the most significant achievements from the Cancun climate talks.
A Moment of Silence for Dying Millions on World Water Day
- Inter Press Service
When the international community commemorates World Water Day next week, perhaps it should ponder the words of U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who once remarked he does not expect people world over to stop what they are doing and observe a moment of silence, come Mar. 22.
Japan Nuke Disaster Could Be Worse Than Chernobyl
- Inter Press Service
A global nuclear disaster potentially worse than Chernobyl may be under way in Japan as hundreds of tonnes of highly radioactive spent nuclear fuel are open to the sky, and may be on fire and emitting radioactive particles into the atmosphere.
TAIWAN: Public Demands Safety Review of New Reactor
- Inter Press Service
The unfolding disaster at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant has reignited debate over Taiwan’s own nuclear power programme and the controversy over continuing construction of a fourth nuclear facility here.
JAPAN: Food and Gasoline Shortages Plague Nuclear Exclusion Zone
- Inter Press Service
For the past three days Hiroko Oogusa, 62 - following orders from the local authorities - has remained in her tightly shuttered home located 40 kilometres from the badly damaged Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima.
Japan's Nuclear Nightmare Arouses French Fears
- Inter Press Service
Until the nuclear crisis started unfolding in Japan last week, most French citizens did not doubt that the country's 58 nuclear reactors were safe enough to continue operating for scores of years to come.
INDIA: Green Schemes Turn Into White Elephants
- Inter Press Service
Several incinerator facilities that were supposed to turn waste into energy have proven to be white elephants that are now adding to the country’s pollution woes, instead of alleviating them.
Japan Races to Cool Stricken Reactors
- Inter Press Service
Workers battling to contain the crisis at Japan's quake- stricken Fukushima nuclear plant were briefly moved to a bunker because of a rise in radiation levels, local media has reported.
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