News headlines for “Biodiversity”, page 646
Caribbean Under Fire for Pro-Whaling Stance
- Inter Press Service
The votes of six Caribbean countries could help decide whether or not the International Whaling Commission (IWC) will ease the 1986 global ban on commercial whaling and allow hunting in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary around Antarctica.
Q&A: 'Sustainability Is Paramount for Latin American Development'
- Inter Press Service
Although the financial, climate, energy and food crises continue to create new challenges, Colombian biologist Margarita Astrálaga believes that now could be the time for Latin America 'to advance towards a more equitable and sustainable development.'
EU: To Kill, But Not Pollute
- Inter Press Service
European Union subsidies earmarked for reducing air travel's contribution to climate change may help develop deadlier warplanes than those already found in the world's arsenals, Brussels officials have admitted.
HONDURAS: Miskito Women Fight on Nature's Side
- Inter Press Service
Seven years ago, in the isolated Honduran region of Mosquitia, on the Caribbean coast, a group of women, mostly single mothers, elderly or widowed, overcame their fear and timidity -- thanks in part to a waste recycling project.
ARGENTINA: Turning Wasteland into Woodland
- Inter Press Service
In Santiago del Estero, one of the Argentine provinces hit hardest by deforestation and desertification, an oasis of native tree species is being created to restore the soil and entice back farmers who were forced to leave their land.
INDIA: Farmers Push Comeback of ‘Cereal of the Poor’
- Inter Press Service
Eshwarappa Banakar has been a farmer most of his adult life, but these days he has also turned banker — banker of seeds, that is, and especially of millet strains.
PARAGUAY: 'Pause' Farming Expansion in Gran Chaco, Say Activists
- Inter Press Service
Extensive cattle farming in northwestern Paraguay is the leading cause of deforestation in the Gran Chaco, one of the world's leading regions in biodiversity and South America's second largest forested area, after the Amazon.
Obama Vows Clean Energy Push, Green Groups Want Details
- Inter Press Service
Despite the pleas of some conservative politicians that parallels should not be drawn between the oil spreading over the Gulf of Mexico and the need to transition out of a reliance on fossil fuels, U.S. President Barack Obama made it clear Tuesday night that he sees the race against the spreading oil as inherently connected to the race against a changing climate.
ARGENTINA-URUGUAY: Joint Environmental Monitoring, a Way Forward?
- Inter Press Service
A mutual inspection system, like the one Argentina and Brazil have developed for the nuclear industry, could contribute to solving the conflict between Argentina and Uruguay over pulp mills on border rivers.
CUBA: How to Hurricane-Proof a Caribbean Island
- Inter Press Service
The residents of Isla de la Juventud (Isle of Youth), the second largest of the Cuban archipelago, know a lot about hurricanes, but it wasn't enough to avoid the destructive power of Hurricane Gustav two years ago.
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