News headlines for “Biodiversity”, page 630
LATIN AMERICA: Border Mining Projects Before Ethics Tribunal
- Inter Press Service
Latin American activists who want to call attention to mining developments located in border areas will gather in Chile to 'pass judgement' on projects they regard as detrimental to local communities, the environment and national security.
ENVIRONMENT-PHILIPPINES: Mining Project Digs Up Locals’ Ire
- Inter Press Service
Depending on who one talks to, Mt Mantalingahan is either a treasure trove of untapped minerals lying underneath the earth’s crust, or a biodiversity hotspot that is home to some of the worlds rarest and threatened animals.
Adapt or Perish
- Inter Press Service
A changing climate will prompt changes in behaviour across Southern Africa. And when it comes to adaptation, Swazi farmer Bongani Phakathi is a frustrated man a few steps ahead of his neighbours.
Mexican Fishers Throw a Lifeline to Lobsters
- Inter Press Service
Faced with the voracious international demand for lobsters from the Mexican Pacific and Atlantic, fishers and environmental organisations have come together to institute sustainable lobstering practices -- although the financial benefits are slow in coming.
ENVIRONMENT: South Still Battling to Stop North’s Biopiracy
- Inter Press Service
The United Nations declared 2010 the Year of Biodiversity. But 17 years after the Convention on Biological Diversity was adopted at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, the issue of biopiracy is still pitching North against South.
ENVIRONMENT: South Still Battling to Stop North’s Biopiracy
- Inter Press Service
The United Nations declared 2010 the Year of Biodiversity. But 17 years after the Convention on Biological Diversity was adopted at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, the issue of biopiracy is still pitching North against South.
Time Running Out Faster Than Water, Experts Warn
- Inter Press Service
A major weeklong international water conference opened in the Swedish capital Monday with an ominous warning: time is running out faster than fresh water.
Poor Thirst as Nile Taps Run Dry
- Inter Press Service
The midday sun punishes a group of veiled women as they wait in line to fill their buckets and jerrycans. They have travelled on foot to a rusty tap on the outskirts of Cairo that gushes irrigation water never intended for human consumption.
BRAZIL: Laws No Help to Amazon Animals, or People
- Inter Press Service
Every year, more than a million Amazonian turtle eggs do not make it to the hatching period, nor do they serve as food for humans in the Tabuleiro de Embaubal, a series of beaches along the final stretch of Brazil's Xingú River.
Brazilian Dam Would Put Peruvian Jungle Under Water
- Inter Press Service
Seen from up high, the route to Puente Inambari looks like a green serpent -- long, robust and sinuous. The Amazon jungle that dominates this landscape will be underwater if one of the largest hydroelectric dams in Peru (and all Latin America) is built.
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