News headlines for “Biodiversity”, page 612
Quantifying Latin American Cattle Emissions a Vital Climate Tool
- Inter Press Service
Some of Latin America's major cattle-producing countries will begin working as a team in 2011 to quantify the greenhouse-effect gas emissions from their bovine industry -- and to come up with options for reducing them.
EUROPE: Talking Green, 'Lending Unclean'
- Inter Press Service
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development is reneging on pledges to support low-carbon economic models in Eastern Europe, and is instead ramping up its lending for fossil-fuel energy projects, critics say.
ICELAND: Don't Trust Those Fishy Certificates
- Inter Press Service
New eco-labels on Icelandic seafood are misleading and unregulated, concealing practices that damage the environment, critics say.
EU Plans to get Smart With Energy
- Inter Press Service
The electricity grid in Europe is in desperate need of an IQ boost.
PAKISTAN: Too Many Nets, Too Little Fish
- Inter Press Service
The last time Moazzam Khan saw sawfish in the Arabian Sea was in 1984. 'At one time, salted and dried fish formed a large part of our exports,' recalls Khan, director general of the Karachi Fisheries Department. 'In the last 30 years, there may be other marine life that may have vanished of which we may not be aware.'
ENVIRONMENT: Icelandic Fishing Quotas Turn a Blind Eye to Industry Practices
- Inter Press Service
In Iceland, strict quotas on the fishing industry result in unnecessary waste and distort data, say critics of the system.
COLOMBIA: Climate Science Reaching Out for Traditional Farmers' Wisdom
- Inter Press Service
The wide-ranging knowledge about climate variation possessed by native people and other small farmers, such as the people in one region of Colombia, is almost a perfect match to scientific measurements recorded on high-tech instruments.
MEXICO: Narco-Sharks Replacing Drug Mules
- Inter Press Service
Sharks are facing a new threat: they are being fished off the Pacific coast of Central America and Mexico and used to smuggle cocaine to the United States, through Mexico.
Japan Under Fire for Abandoning Kyoto Pact
- Inter Press Service
Japanese NGOs feel that Prime Minister Naoto Kan's categorical statement in parliament on Monday that his government would not under any circumstances be party to a continuation of the Kyoto Protocol, which was signed in that historic city in 1997, went 'beyond irony'.
In the End, U.S. Gets (Partial) Offshore Drilling Ban
- Inter Press Service
As negotiators meet in Cancùn to discuss how to mitigate the worst effects of climate change, the impacts of the oil spill disaster that unfolded earlier this year on the other side of the Gulf of Mexico are still rippling through Washington.
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