News headlines for “Biodiversity”, page 645
ENVIRONMENT: Honduran Caribbean on a Tightrope
- Inter Press Service
The biodiversity of Capiro Calentura National Park, on the northern coast of Honduras, could disappear as a result of tourism, agricultural expansion and drug trafficking.
URUGUAY: Río de la Plata Under Land-Based Attack
- Inter Press Service
Unregulated population growth along Uruguay's southern coast has hurt the Río de la Plata (River Plate) along an extensive stretch where the freshwater mixes with the Atlantic's salty seas, warn scientists.
DEVELOPMENT-ZIMBABWE: Selling Scrap Metal to Scrape By
- Inter Press Service
Gugulethu Mkhwananzi is another one of the many unemployed women who have become features of everyday life in Bulawayo’s poor working class suburbs as she moves from house to house, looking for 'rusted gold': scrap metal.
LAOS: Water Headaches Follow Growth of Cities
- Inter Press Service
At 63, Kingkham Duoangsavanh has it made. Now retired after decades of working as a nurse, she lives happily with her grown-up children in a well- appointed home with all the amenities. But up until recently, a constant shortage of water has marred her comfortable existence.
Gulf Spill Could Produce Wealth of Scientific Knowledge
- Inter Press Service
Eventually, the oil spewing from the ruptured well of BP's Deepwater Horizon offshore rig will stop. And some time after that the bulk of the mess will be cleaned up. By then, though, the amount of damage done to the Gulf of Mexico may be catastrophic - but will we know just how catastrophic?
U.S.: Youth on Frontlines of Green Justice Struggles
- Inter Press Service
The committed determination of young people in the environmental justice movement is emerging as a highlight of the 2010 U.S. Social Forum, which opened in Detroit this week with some 20,000 activists meeting in 'Motor City' to network and share their visions for social change.
INDIA: Animals Nearing Extinction Need Urgent Attention — Experts
- Inter Press Service
With threats looming large on the survival of several wildlife species in the Himalayan state of Jammu and Kashmir in northern India, experts warn that these species could go extinct in the coming years unless immediate steps are taken to prevent their extinction.
DEVELOPMENT-CONGO: Deforestation Threatens South With Famine
- Inter Press Service
The trees are falling in Pool, and there are plenty of people to hear the sound. In a painful irony, the end of armed conflict in 2003, has signaled the wholesale devastation of forests in this southern region of the Republic of Congo.
Raising Water Productivity to Increase Food Security
- Inter Press Service
With water shortages constraining food production growth, the world needs an effort to raise water productivity similar to the one that nearly tripled land productivity over the last half-century.
AFRICA: 'Help Small Fishers to Fish Less, Earn More'
- Inter Press Service
Sanitary and phyto-sanitary measures are a headache for African fish exporters but aid for trade may help small-scale fisherpersons to meet these standards.
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