News headlines for “Biodiversity”, page 677
CLIMATE CHANGE: 'Perhaps We Should Just Sign'
- Inter Press Service
Countries are quietly signing up to the Copenhagen Accord, but commitments on emissions cuts and funding remain unclear.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Amidst Global Warming Coldest Winter in 50 Years
- Inter Press Service
It was probably an irony that Europe's coldest winter in 50 years coincided with the U.N. climate change summit in Copenhagen last December, which failed to deliver a treaty to reduce global warming emissions.
U.S.: Gas Prices, Economy Raise Stakes for Cleaner Cars
- Inter Press Service
The Chinese auto industry surpassed the U.S. in car sales last year, according to a recent report, raising the question of whether this represents a bump in the road for the U.S. auto industry or a long-term shift to other means of transportation.
U.S.: Gas Prices, Economy Raise Stakes for Cleaner Cars
- Inter Press Service
The Chinese auto industry surpassed the U.S. in car sales last year, according to a recent report, raising the question of whether this represents a bump in the road for the U.S. auto industry or a long-term shift to other means of transportation.
BIODIVERSITY: Conservation Groups Pounce on Year of the Tiger
- Inter Press Service
The Lunar New Year that begins Sunday will mark the start of the Chinese Zodiac's Year of the Tiger, but conservationists are saying 2010 will have much more than symbolic significance for the Asian big cat.
ENERGY-MEXICO: Big and Small Firms Harness Sun's Rays
- Inter Press Service
It was Isabel Cortés, the family matriarch, who started the project. In 1990, she started looking for a way to market xoconostle, the sour variety of the nopal cactus fruit that is abundant in this arid part of central Mexico, in the Mezquital valley.
BIODIVERSITY: India Bans Farming of GM Aubergine
- Inter Press Service
After India’s Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh announced Tuesday a ban on the cultivation of Bt brinjal, the country’s first genetically modified (GM) food crop, food security experts and activists said this major farming country has been saved from a biodiversity disaster.
DEVELOPMENT: Crisis Could Open Doors for Change, Says UNCTAD
- Inter Press Service
As the financial crisis continued to threaten world economies last year, the White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel famously declared: 'You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.'
BIODIVERSITY: Companies Push Hard to Halt Tuna Collapse
- Inter Press Service
In the Seychelles' only cannery, the din of thousands of empty tuna cans rattling on narrow metal troughs is incredible as they bustle along, soon to be filled with Skipjack tuna that only days ago were swimming freely in the inky blue Indian Ocean.
Q&A: ''There's a Limit to Fish Harvesting''
- Inter Press Service
The perilous state of the world’s fish stocks has received less media attention than the more visible, palpable environmental problems like air pollution. Isabella Lövin is seeking to redress that balance. Her 2007 book ‘Tyst hav’ (Silent Seas) hit the best-seller list in her native Sweden, garnering her three awards, including the title of 'Journalist of the Year'.
Powered by
