News headlines for “Biodiversity”, page 670
NEPAL: Crippling Power Outages Throw Life Out of Gear
- Inter Press Service
When it gets cold during Nepal’s winter nights, Yem Prasad Gurung turns on his heater run by liquefied petroleum gas. When it gets dark, he switches on the lights that rely on a solar inverter — and to make sure he gets water, he turns on a generator-powered water pump.
CLIMATE CHANGE-BRAZIL: The Threat Posed by Livestock
- Inter Press Service
The livestock industry has less economic clout than the oil industry, but ranchers say it has better arguments to defend itself from accusations regarding its share of responsibility for global warming.
CLIMATE CHANGE: The U.N.'s Boys' Club
- Inter Press Service
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's decision to appoint a 19-member, all-male high-level advisory group on Climate Change Financing (CCF) has triggered strong protests from women's groups and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) outraged by the composition of the panel.
DEVELOPMENT: Bad Water More Deadly Than War
- Inter Press Service
Bad water kills more people than wars or earthquakes, declares Anders Berntell, executive director of the Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI).
PERU: Priest on Campaign Trail Defrocked by Church
- Inter Press Service
A priest who is touring the country in his bid to run for president next year, at the head of a leftist movement, was indefinitely suspended by the Catholic Church for getting involved in politics.
VIETNAM: Salinisation, Drought Bring Worries to Mekong Delta
- Inter Press Service
He has worked this land for half of 64 years and is known among his fellow farmers in Kien Giang province here in the Mekong Delta as ‘lao nong’, or the old master of rice.
ENVIRONMENT: Blame on Chinese Dams Rise as Mekong River Dries Up
- Inter Press Service
As the water level in the Mekong River dips to a record 50-year low, a familiar pattern of fault-finding has risen to the surface. China, the regional giant through which parts of South-east Asia’s largest waterway flows through, is again at the receiving end of verbal salvoes from its neighbours.
ENERGY-LATIN AMERICA: Moving Towards Renewables
- Inter Press Service
Argentina is building its first solar energy park in the northwestern province of San Juan. The project calls for the manufacture of photovoltaic panels to supply the rest of the country and the other member countries of the Southern Common Market (Mercosur).
ENVIRONMENT: So That Vans May Pollute More
- Inter Press Service
Three years after vehicle-makers succeeded in weakening new European Union (EU) pollution standards for cars, many of the same firms are hoping to frustrate efforts to make vans more fuel-efficient.
CLIMATE CHANGE: In Canada, No News is Bad News
- Inter Press Service
Canada's climate researchers are being muzzled, their funding slashed, research stations closed, findings ignored and advice on the critical issue of the century unsought by Prime Minister Stephen Harper's government, according to a 40-page report by a coalition of 60 non-governmental organisations.
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