News headlines for “Biodiversity”, page 665
SOUTH ASIA: Water Shortage Calls for Second Look at Indus Treaty
- Inter Press Service
Climate change and the probability that a current water shortage would worsen may make constantly bickering neighbours, India and Pakistan, take a closer look at a 50-year-old treaty under which they share rivers originating from the Himalayas.
ENVIRONMENT-NIGER: French State-Owned Company 'Poisoning' Poor
- Inter Press Service
Recent research by Greenpeace suggests that French state-owned company Areva’s public claims of decontamination of populated areas near uranium mines in Niger are false. High radio-activity persists in towns and rural areas near the mines, affecting some 80,000 people.
ENVIRONMENT-CHINA: Record Drought Exposes Water Woes
- Inter Press Service
A once-in-a-century drought in south-west China has sparked concern over how China, which has one-fifth of the world’s population but just 7 percent of its water, has managed its water supply and growing network of hydroelectric dams.
SOUTH AFRICA: Coal Plant Won't Promote Development, Say Groups
- Inter Press Service
As the World Bank approved a controversial three-billion-dollar loan for a coal-fired power plant in South Africa Thursday, both the details and the broader impacts of the loan continue to be criticised by community and environmental groups.
ECUADOR: Environmental Inspection in Yasuni Park
- Inter Press Service
Representatives of Ecuador's ombudsman's office and environmental groups are visiting the Yasuni National Park on Saturday, home to some of the world's last indigenous people still living in voluntary isolation, in order to verify reports of illegal activity by oil companies.
CLIMATE CHANGE-BRAZIL: A Tragedy of Local and Global Dimensions
- Inter Press Service
The people who live in the favela of Guararapes are probably unaware that the heavy rains that forced them to flee their homes were caused by a phenomenon that is affecting the whole planet: global warming.
CARIBBEAN: Final Throes for Jamaica's 'Hippie Paradise'?
- Inter Press Service
For centuries, Negril, a seven-mile stretch of white sand beach on the western tip of Jamaica, was cut off from the rest of the island by bad roads and a large swamp.
SOUTH AMERICA: Clear Water - Mercosur's Underground Treasure
- Inter Press Service
Invisible beneath a vast area of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay, the Guaraní Aquifer is one of the world's largest reserves of freshwater. Despite supplying water to millions of people, it is neither contaminated nor overexploited.
ARGENTINA: Sweeping the (Garbage) Problem Under the Rug
- Inter Press Service
To live up to the 'Zero Garbage' law that went into effect in 2006, the volume of waste ending up in landfills in the Argentine capital was to be significantly reduced every year, with the ultimate aim of eradicating landfills by 2020. But environmentalists are skeptical that the goal will be reached.
PERU: Miners Call Off Protests for Talks; Six Killed in Clashes
- Inter Press Service
In response to a government promise to negotiate, small-scale gold miners in southern Peru temporarily called off protests Wednesday in which six people were killed and as many as 30 injured when the police attempted to clear a roadblock.
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