News headlines for “Biodiversity”, page 644
ANGOLA: Drilling Ever Deeper, Hoping for the Best
- Inter Press Service
While BP struggles to contain an oil spill that U.S. government estimates indicate is now the largest ever in the Gulf of Mexico, questions are being asked about how well prepared Africa's oil-producing countries are for a similar incident.
BRAZIL: Belo Monte Dam Means Floods for Some, Drought for Others
- Inter Press Service
'There will be two years of abundance, and then famine,' says Brazilian indigenous leader José Carlos Arara, laying bare his opinion of the promises that the Belo Monte hydroelectric dam will not alter the living conditions of the people in this part of the eastern Amazon.
Gulf Spill Galvanises Activist Community
- Inter Press Service
With the U.S .government and oil giant British Petroleum under fire for their handling of the more than two-month-old Gulf Coast oil spill disaster, environmental and community activists across the country are taking matters into their own hands.
PARAGUAY: Clean Water Out of Reach for Native Peoples
- Inter Press Service
Of the many things that are not within the reach of everyone in Paraguay, safe drinking water is the one the indigenous population longs for most.
Free Ride for Oil and Coal Industry May Be Over
- Inter Press Service
Every day, governments give away an estimated two billion dollars of taxpayer money to the fossil fuel industry. This unmatched largesse to a highly profitable sector by countries verging on bankruptcy or unable to feed large numbers of their own people is 'complete madness', according to many experts.
BRAZIL: Belo Monte Dam Will Change Way of Life on Xingú River
- Inter Press Service
At dawn, the 'captain' fired on the village leader and the shooting began. 'The forest trembled,' says one survivor: the local indigenous people fled, leaving their dead behind. Only one young girl remained. But she sank her teeth into the chest of one of the assailants with such force that they slit her throat to pull her off him.
AUSTRALIA: New PM Called On to Tackle Climate Change
- Inter Press Service
Australia’s newly appointed prime minister, Julia Gillard, has hardly warmed her seat, yet she has already been urged to take action on climate change.
ENVIRONMENT: Thailand Fights Addiction to Plastic Bags
- Inter Press Service
Buy a hairpin and the sales clerk has a microscopic plastic bag for it. A soda purchase from a corner store may end up having the liquid poured into a plastic bag, and then topped off with a plastic straw. There is no plastic bag yet that could fit a car, but if there was one country that could come up with one, Thailand would probably be it.
Love, Commitment and Anger in Detroit
- Inter Press Service
The 2010 U.S. Social Forum ended Saturday in Detroit, a city viewed by many as a metaphor for the excesses of U.S. capitalism, with strong parting words from Pablo Solon, Bolivia's permanent representative to the United Nations.
BRAZIL: Forestry Law Reforms Augur More Disasters
- Inter Press Service
While the Brazilian authorities tally the death toll and the economic losses caused by recent torrential rains in the northeast, activists warn that a legislative bill to modify the Forestry Code will only worsen the effects of extreme weather, which is increasingly frequent in the context of climate change.
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