News headlines for “Biodiversity”, page 642
EGYPT: Oil, Water and Tourism Don't Mix
- Inter Press Service
Egypt's Red Sea resort cities have grown up in the shadow of oil development, but with tourism booming and the country's oil reserves drying up, many stakeholders think it is time to exorcise the oil spectre.
EUROPE: 'No' to GM Could Conceal a 'Yes'
- Inter Press Service
Genetically modified (GM) foods will be introduced more quickly in Europe as a result of a new proposal, some Brussels officials fear.
New Weather Patterns Threaten U.S. Breadbasket
- Inter Press Service
Climate change is expected to disrupt agriculture in the U.S. Midwest, with high carbon dioxide promoting crop growth but stronger storms, drought, floods and migrating yields dampening yields.
Turks Let Kurdish Forests Burn
- Inter Press Service
The Turkish General Directorate of Forestry claims to devote the bulk of its resources to combating forest fires, but it is passively observing the Turkish army ignite forested areas in the country's predominantly Kurdish southeastern region.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Uruguay Fends Off Health Threats - So Far
- Inter Press Service
The incidence of cardiovascular, respiratory and water-borne diseases is rising in Uruguay in tandem with climate change, while dengue fever and malaria lurk at the country's borders. Higher temperatures are encouraging the presence of insect vectors carrying diseases that were eradicated decades ago, experts say.
INDIA: ‘Green Cremation’ Gets A Second Look
- Inter Press Service
Unmindful of the monsoons lashing the Dehradun area in the Himalayan foothills in northern India, Girdhari Singh returns from work daily with a headload of wood that he finds along the road, and stacks it to dry in the cattleshed.
Greenpeace Gets New Wind in its Sails
- Inter Press Service
Exactly 25 years after French secret agents sank its flagship and killed one of its crew, Greenpeace has begun construction of a new Rainbow Warrior. The group’s leaders say its environmental campaigning is needed more than ever.
Q&A: 'Latin America Faces an Environmental Emergency'
- Inter Press Service
The Latin American economy based on exploitation of natural resources does not create social well-being and is unsustainable in the context of climate change, says Uruguayan Eduardo Gudynas, lead researcher at the Latin American Centre for Social Ecology (CLAES).
ICELAND: The Ash Came Down Like a Blessing to Some
- Inter Press Service
'It's unbelievable, the eruption has had a very good effect on the grass,' says farmer Finnur Tryggvason in Raudafell, just beneath the Eyjafjallajokull glacier that erupted in April and continued till late May.
Bolivian Lowlands Get Life-Saving Flood Warning System
- Inter Press Service
An early warning system to alert people living in the lowlands of the northern Bolivian department of Beni about imminent flooding of the mighty Mamoré and Ibare rivers is saving lives, food and goods, and overcoming the uncertainty that led to enormous losses in the past.
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