News headlines for “Biodiversity”, page 619
Slow Food Picks Up Steadily
- Inter Press Service
It's been a steady, even if slow growth for the Slow Food movement around the world.
Climate Change Denial Pervades U.S. Elections
- Inter Press Service
In the run-up to the U.S. elections set to take place Nov. 2, the amount of money being spent and eccentricities on display have reached record levels. This has been particularly obvious in debates over energy and climate change.
Black Floridians Await Settlement on Toxic Contamination
- Inter Press Service
It is safe to say that the candidates running in Florida for the Nov. 2 congressional elections do not have a campaign stop planned for Tallevast. Residents there believe that they have been abandoned by the government.
U.S. Inmates Exposed to Toxic E-Waste
- Inter Press Service
Past U.S. inmates and prison staff in electronic waste recycling programmes face serious health risks after officials willfully violated health, safety and environmental laws, a new report has found.
Runaway Global Economy Decimating Nature
- Inter Press Service
One-fifth of all birds, fish and animals are threatened with extinction - as many as six million unique and irreplaceable forms of life — an authoritative new assessment warned Wednesday.
MEXICO: Native Tourism Businesses Need to Sell Themselves Better
- Inter Press Service
Native tourism companies dedicated to the preservation and promotion of indigenous culture and to sustainable development face a number of hurdles, especially in terms of marketing and commercialising their services.
Heat Rises, Fishing Falls in the Venezuelan Caribbean
- Inter Press Service
In the Southern Caribbean, along the Venezuelan coast, fishing is on the decline, surface waters are warming, rivers discharge tonnes of waste into the sea -- the waves seem to be licking the wounds left by these phenomena and devastating fishing practices like bottom trawling.
ASIA: Irrigation Systems Deserve a Second Look, Say Experts
- Inter Press Service
Asia’s search for ways to feed over one billion new mouths in the next 40 years is prompting experts to call for renewed faith in its wide network of irrigation systems in order to ensure adequate food production.
Tackling Climate Change Could Save Biodiversity
- Inter Press Service
A major change in the direction of economic development is essential to avoid the catastrophic unraveling of Earth's ecosystems that support all life, a new global analysis published in the journal Science revealed Tuesday.
JAMAICA: Trading Ecology for a Highway
- Inter Press Service
A construction project in Kingston's protected Palisadoes wetlands is pitting Jamaican environmentalists against the government in a showdown activists say will end up in the courts.
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