News headlines for “Biodiversity”, page 632
Portugal's Forests Losing Ability to Capture Carbon
- Inter Press Service
Environmentalists are alarmed: fires have destroyed close to 100,000 hectares of forest in Portugal this summer, releasing one million tonnes of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Worst of all, the forests are losing their ability to absorb carbon.
Geothermal: Getting Energy from the Earth
- Inter Press Service
The heat in the upper six miles of the earth’s crust contains 50,000 times as much energy as found in all the world’s oil and gas reserves combined. Despite this abundance, only 10,700 megawatts of geothermal electricity generating capacity have been harnessed worldwide.
DEVELOPMENT: South-east Asian Highway Hits Roadblock in Burma
- Inter Press Service
With its thick forest cover and abundant wildlife, the Dawna mountain range in south-eastern Burma is coming in the way of a flagship highway project being pushed by one of Asia’s premier financiers of roads.
EAST AFRICA: Protecting Lake Victoria's Top Predator
- Inter Press Service
Coordinated conservation measures to arrest the steep decline of stocks of Nile perch in Lake Victoria are showing encouraging results - for fish, if not for fishing communities around the lake.
RIGHTS-CHINA: Environment Lawsuits Often Become Lonely Fights
- Inter Press Service
Feng Jun's fight against a local government and the steel mills he believes polluted the water that killed his daughter has cost him nearly everything.
EUROPE-ENVIRONMENT: Hot Air Rises at Talks and in Towns
- Inter Press Service
The European Union (EU) is failing to fulfil its environmental commitments in practically all areas, from protecting biodiversity to improving air quality in the cities, according to official studies released this month.
CHILE: Coal Plants Under Fire
- Inter Press Service
Controversial plans to build the Barrancones thermoelectric plant near a protected area in the northern Chilean region of Coquimbo were cancelled Friday, but not before reopening debate on other projects for polluting coal-fired power stations.
AFRICA: Outrage Over Claim that Anti-GM Campaign 'Causes Hunger'
- Inter Press Service
Civil society organisations have reacted with outrage to claims that the international campaign against genetically modified (GM) crops is partly responsible for food shortages and food insecurity in Africa.
SOUTH-EAST ASIA: China Flexes Hydropower Muscle
- Inter Press Service
After all the turbines in the Xiaowan hydropower station sputtered to life this week in China’s south-west Yunnan province, the Asian giant was able to lay claim to having the world’s largest hydropower capacity.
Mali Nomads Flee Drought
- Inter Press Service
Nomadic communities in northern Mali's desert regions are facing one of the most serious droughts of the last twenty years.
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