News headlines for “Biodiversity”, page 633
MEXICO: Environmentalist Peasants Seek Justice
- Inter Press Service
Peasant activists Rodolfo Montiel and Teodoro Cabrera hope to find, at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, the justice that eluded them in their home country of Mexico, to which they hope to return to rejoin their families.
ENERGY: Is Fracking Even Worse Than Drilling?
- Inter Press Service
With cleanup of the Gulf of Mexico barely underway, energy companies are already assuming a crouching stance in anticipation of a no-holds-barred attack by environmentalists on what the industry says is the next major breakthrough in natural resource extraction.
Fish Kills Worry Gulf Scientists, Fishers, Environmentalists
- Inter Press Service
Another massive fish kill, this time in Louisiana, has alarmed scientists, fishers and environmentalists who believe they are caused by oil and dispersants.
Climate-related Security Predictions Coming True in Pakistan
- Inter Press Service
Analysts have been warning for several years that the impacts of climate change directly relate to the national security of the U.S. and other countries, but the link has never been so clear as it is today in northwest Pakistan.
CHILE: Forestry Industry Sows Poverty, Study Says
- Inter Press Service
The poverty rate in the districts of southern Chile where the logging industry is the main economic activity is nearly twice the national average, a new study shows.
INDIA: Four Years On, Debate Rages On Forest Rights Law
- Inter Press Service
It was supposed to help right old wrongs as well as protect India’s forests, but four years after it took effect, a landmark law recognising the forest rights of scheduled tribes remains the subject of acrimonious debates among the country’s government officials, environmentalists, and rights advocates.
ENVIRONMENT-RUSSIA: Threat To Polar Bears Worries Russian Experts
- Inter Press Service
- Environmental experts in Russia have warned that unless urgent steps are taken internationally, climatic changes combined with man-made factors could reduce the world's population of polar bears by as much as 70 percent by 2060.
ECONOMY: 'Sub-Saharan Africa Is Speeding Towards Affluence'
- Inter Press Service
Africa is heading towards a bright economic future, according to a new book co-authored by the former director of the French state agency for economic cooperation and released recently in Paris.
ENVIRONMENT-INDIA: Green Activists Gain Ground with Successive Victories
- Inter Press Service
Green activists in India have chalked up a series of successes recently and feel heartened that the central government is heeding their call. A number of mega projects which would have displaced vulnerable communities or caused damage to the environment were recently scrapped by the government.
KENYA: A Bid to Save Macadamia Crops
- Inter Press Service
Joseph Ndirangu Muriithi is a worried man. After watching the fall of coffee farming in Kenya a decade ago, he now fears that his other cash crop will also go into decline as a new disease preys on his macadamia trees.
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