News headlines for “Biodiversity”, page 650
BOLIVIA: Guaraní, Tapieté Peoples Fight Gas Exploration
- Inter Press Service
The explosive charges utilised in fossil fuel exploration in Bolivia's Chaco region divert underground water flows, scare off wildlife and harm the environment, charge the leaders of local indigenous Guaraní communities, which have been blocking access routes to keep oil company employees from entering the area.
AFRICA: Climate Change Assistance so Near and Yet so Far
- Inter Press Service
Technology transfer and aid for trade could assist least developed countries (LDCs) suffering the effects of climate change. But negotiations in the World Trade Organisation (WTO) are not helping to make this a reality, while aid for trade lands up at the wrong institutions, such as the World Bank.
INDIA: Mangroves Face Severe Threat from Human Activities
- Inter Press Service
When a super cyclone devastated the coastal districts of Orissa state in 1999, the government pledged to regenerate 3,000 hectares of mangrove. Or so forest official Chandra Sekhar Kar thought.
ITALY: Building a Sustainable Future With Straw and Wood
- Inter Press Service
Pescomaggiore village, destroyed by the earthquake that hit the mountain region of L’Aquila in central Italy on Apr. 6, 2009, is now being rebuilt by its 40-odd inhabitants with straw and wood.
INDONESIA: Natural Fertiliser from Microbes Boosts Crop Yields
- Inter Press Service
Ten years after an Indonesian agriculturist discovered microbes capable of producing natural fertilisers, farmers attest that they have boosted agricultural production.
Q&A: Diversity the Best Option for Cuban Farmers
- Inter Press Service
Cuban biodiversity scientist Humberto Ríos, one of the six recipients of the 2010 Goldman Environmental Prize, probably won't be able to collect the 150,000 dollars in prize money, though that setback is unlikely to cause him to lose any sleep -- or keep him from singing.
Fears Grow over Oil Spill's Long-Term Effects on Food Chain
- Inter Press Service
As oil continues gushing from the ocean floor into the Gulf of Mexico, with no sign of stopping until a new well is finished this August, scientists, environmentalists and local residents are beginning to reckon with the reality of a massive annihilation of sea creatures and wildlife.
North-South Conservation Divide: 'Show Me the Money'
- Inter Press Service
Developing countries rich in plants and animals but poor in financial and technical resources refused to make binding commitments to halt the unraveling of the planet's biological infrastructure at the close of a major meeting Friday at the U.N.'s African headquarters in Nairobi.
BIODIVERSITY: Imagine a World Without Bluefin Tuna
- Inter Press Service
The bluefin tuna, an 'apex predator' fish of the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea, is condemned to extinction within two years by the inaction of the industrialised North and international regulatory bodies, predict marine biologists and environmentalists.
PAKISTAN: Lake Disaster Triggers New Displacements
- Inter Press Service
Up until Saturday the Attabad Lake in northern Pakistan had been rising one metre every day and was thus on the verge of breaking its banks, observed Lieutenant General Nadeem Ahmed, chairman of the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA).
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