News headlines for “Biodiversity”, page 647
Ixtoc Disaster Holds Clues to Evolution of an Oil Spill
- Inter Press Service
On a spring day in the Gulf of Mexico, a pipe issuing from the sea floor ruptured, sending an explosion rippling up to the drilling platform above and spewing oil into the surrounding waters. Experts scrambled to seal off the ever-increasing mass of oil by capping the pipe, clogging it or covering it. Nothing worked.
SOMALIA: Questions Abound about EU’s 'Combating' of Piracy
- Inter Press Service
Modern German justice had never handled a case of piracy until Jun 11, when 10 Somali seafarers, including children, were presented at a tribunal in the city port of Hamburg, some 300 km west from Berlin, on charges of robbing cargo in the Indian Ocean.
DEVELOPMENT: Violence Escalates Around India’s Largest Inland Lake
- Inter Press Service
Basudev Dalai, 43, never thought that the fishing village where he has lived all his life and which has been home to generations of fishermen like him would be embroiled in violent clashes over the very source of their livelihood.
Polar Heat Bringing Harder Winters
- Inter Press Service
Last winter's big snowfall and cold temperatures in the eastern United States and Europe were likely caused by the loss of Arctic sea ice, researchers concluded at the International Polar Year Oslo Science Conference in Norway last week.
Upstream States Challenge Egypt Over Nile Waters
- Inter Press Service
A water-sharing treaty among five upstream Nile Basin countries - to the exclusion of Egypt and Sudan - has reignited the longstanding dispute over water distribution. Local experts, however, say the agreement will not jeopardise Egypt's historical share of Nile water.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Maldives Inches Closer to HCFC Phase-out
- Inter Press Service
The Maldives Islands, fast gaining a reputation for ‘walking the talk’ as it raises its tiny island voice in the climate change discourse, has launched an action plan to phase out hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs) by 2020, or 10 years ahead of other countries and the target set by an international agreement known as the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer.
CLIMATE CHANGE: As Humans Advance, Andean Glaciers Recede
- Inter Press Service
The spectacular glacier Number 15 of Altisana, one of the Ecuadorean capitals' sources of potable water, lost at least 36 percent of its original mass in the last 50 years.
SOUTH-EAST ASIA: China Goes for Friendly Giant Role in Mekong
- Inter Press Service
The Mekong River is steadily emerging as a testing ground for public diplomacy, Chinese style. Beijing, it appears, wants to reach out to its southern neighbours who share the river more as a friendly giant than an imposing bully.
U.S. Lawns Getting an Eco-Makeover
- Inter Press Service
A radical, underground movement is growing in the suburbs of the United States.
INDIA: Experts Rue Untold Damage to Marine, Coastal Ecosystems
- Inter Press Service
In mid-April this year, MV Malavika, a cargo ship of the Essar Shipping Corporation, a major sea logistics firm in India, leaked an estimated eight tonnes of furnace oil after being struck by a barge near the Gopalpur port on the eastern Indian coast of Orissa.
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