News headlines for “Biodiversity”, page 607
BIODIVERSITY: Sealed With a Comeback
- Inter Press Service
After 50 years of near absence, grey seals are coming back to Polish coast of Baltic Sea. Not everyone is happy about it.
BANGLADESH: Solar Advocates See A Sunshine Nation
- Inter Press Service
Good news may sometimes be hard to come by in this South Asian country, but for solar power advocates here, Bangladesh has been a sunshine nation for the last few years.
SOUTH AMERICA: Rain May Disappear from the World's Breadbasket
- Inter Press Service
South America still has vast extensions of land available for growing crops to help meet the global demand for food and biofuels. But the areas of greatest potential agricultural production -- central-southern Brazil, northern Argentina, and Paraguay -- could be left without the necessary rains.
WIKILEAKS: Africa Offers Easy Uranium
- Inter Press Service
Wikileaks cables have revealed a disturbing development in the African uranium mining industry: abysmal safety and security standards in the mines, nuclear research centres, and border customs are enabling international companies to exploit the mines and smuggle dangerous radioactive material across continents.
Justice at Last for Peasant Environmentalists in Mexico
- Inter Press Service
'I feel I can breathe more deeply and look more towards the future. I feel at peace,' Mexican peasant Rodolfo Montiel told IPS, from somewhere on the west coast of the United States.
BRAZIL: 'Green' Schools Flourish in Porto Alegre
- Inter Press Service
Living sustainably can be learned. That is the idea championed by two schools in the southern Brazilian city of Porto Alegre, where students are learning to become environmental citizens of the new millennium.
Legal Shortcuts Trap the Peruvian Anchovy
- Inter Press Service
Exports of fishmeal made from Peruvian anchoveta, or anchovy (Engraulis ringens), is so lucrative that fishers have sought -- and found -- legal shortcuts to obtain permits that would have been impossible through formal channels. This practice is exhausting even the contingency stock that the government had set aside.
U.S. Finning Ban Caps Busy Year for Shark Conservation
- Inter Press Service
The U.S. Congress banned shark finning in all U.S. waters Tuesday, a victory environmental advocates are hoping sends a message to international regulators.
Big Fleets Resist Pacific Islands' Plan to Save Fisheries
- Inter Press Service
Eight Pacific island nations that are leveraging their contracts with foreign fishing fleets to save the world's last great stocks of tuna are getting little sympathy from the countries representing those fleets.
JAMAICA: Priceless Native Plants Vanishing in the Wind
- Inter Press Service
The recent successes of local medicinal researchers have turned the spotlight on local laws that fail to protect Jamaica's rich biological diversity.
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