News headlines for “Biodiversity”, page 600
PERU: Government under Fire for Waiving Environmental Certificates for Dams
- Inter Press Service
The Peruvian government has been forced to offer talks with governors, the ombudsperson's office and Catholic Church leaders, to stem the outcry over two emergency decrees that waive the requirement for environmental certificates for 33 investment projects, including hydroelectric dams in the Amazon rainforest.
Tourism Is Poisoning the Mexican Caribbean
- Inter Press Service
The booming tourist industry along Mexico's Caribbean coast, particularly in the area of Cancún and the 'Riviera Maya,' is polluting the world's largest underwater cave system and harming the world's second largest coral reef, a new study has found.
Pakistan Sinking Into Water Crisis
- Inter Press Service
Pakistan is still reeling from flooding that caused one of the world’s costliest natural disasters in 2010, with millions of people lacking shelter, infrastructure in ruins and donations falling short of appeals. But worse may come.
INDIA: Agitation Challenges Asbestos Import
- Inter Press Service
Activists hope that a popular agitation against the setting up of a factory to manufacture asbestos products in the eastern Bihar state will result in a nationwide ban on the large-scale import into this country of the deadly mineral fibre.
Q&A: Another World Is Possible - It's Called Ecosocialism
- Inter Press Service
As the powerful collective energy continues to surge through Dakar, veterans of the World Social Forum (WSF) are taking a moment to examine the history, trajectory and future of the alternative global movement.
Environmental and Demographic Forces Threaten State Failure
- Inter Press Service
Uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt, and across the Middle East at the start of 2011 have reminded the world just how politically fragile some countries are. But the focus of international politics has been shifting for some time now.
COLOMBIA: Increasingly Broad Social Movements Fight Mining
- Inter Press Service
Social mobilisation against gold-mining is growing in Colombia, which is now one of the world's biggest per capita polluters of mercury, used in artisanal mining, according to the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO).
Forest Fest Makes Headway in Protection, Poverty Reduction
- Inter Press Service
Political leaders have committed to ramping up restoration of the world's forests and tackling poverty in forest communities as part of pledges made at the ninth session Forum on Forests, which wrapped up at the United Nations headquarters in New York last week.
MEXICO: 'They Don't Want Their Town to Vanish' - Underwater
- Inter Press Service
The people of three towns that would be flooded by the El Zapotillo dam to be built in the western Mexican state of Jalisco have refused to be relocated and are fighting to save their homes.
MEXICO: Agave Sweetens Economic Prospects of Indigenous Women
- Inter Press Service
With a wooden spoon in hand, Hortencia Rómulo briskly stirs the amber-coloured liquid cooking in an enormous steel pot.
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