News headlines for “Biodiversity”, page 601
WORLD SOCIAL FORUM: More Complex Global Crises in 11th Year
- Inter Press Service
Neoliberalism and the attendant financial globalisation were a common enemy that unified and mobilised activists of the most diverse tendencies who founded, ten years ago in Porto Alegre in southern Brazil, the World Social Forum (WSF) as a space to meet, reflect and debate, under the slogan 'Another World Is Possible'.
BIODIVERSITY: Fighting for a Green Future
- Inter Press Service
At just 13 years old, Felix Finkbeiner may be one of the youngest participants in the two-week U.N. Forum on Forests, but he already has years of environmental activism under his belt.
Amazon Drought Accelerating Climate Change
- Inter Press Service
Last year's severe drought in the Amazon will pump billions of tonnes of additional carbon dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere, a new report has found.
China and Brazil Inundate Latin America with Dams
- Inter Press Service
The growing presence of Chinese and Brazilian capital in Latin America's energy sector is facilitating the construction of hydroelectric complexes, but is also the fuelling nationalist stances that are adding to the environmental criticisms of those major projects.
CENTRAL AMERICA: Tragedies Suffered; Lessons Learned?
- Inter Press Service
The disasters caused by torrential rains in South America have set off alarm bells in Central America, whose extreme vulnerability was made all too clear over the last few years when it was slammed by hurricanes Mitch and Stan and tropical storm Agatha.
Arctic Defrost Dumping Snow on U.S. and Europe
- Inter Press Service
The world's northern freezer is on rapid defrost as large volumes of warm water are pouring into the Arctic Ocean, speeding the melt of sea ice, according to a new study.
Dams Threaten Aboriginal Tribe
- Inter Press Service
Over the years, the Kadars, a dwindling aboriginal tribe who live on the borders of the southern Indian states of Kerala and Tamil Nadu, have survived pestilences, extreme exploitation and even mass sterilisations. But a new government plan to build a hydroelectric dam across the Chalakudy River would have been the death knell for the group who now number about 1,500.
France Holds Back the Sun
- Inter Press Service
France’s high tariffs for solar-generated electricity have led to an investment boom in photovoltaic panels, but now the government is rowing back, much to the chagrin of environmentalists.
Forest Summit Seeks 'People-Friendly' Solutions
- Inter Press Service
Earlier this month, on a hot and humid day in the Jambi province of Indonesia, a group of local farmers was critically injured after being shot as they attempted to harvest fruit on a contested palm plantation.
PERU: Environmental Crime Doesn't Pay
- Inter Press Service
Caudalosa workers clean up mining tailings in the Opamayo River. - Milagros Salazar/IPS IPS
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