News headlines for “Biodiversity”, page 685
URUGUAY: Coming Together to Tackle Climate Change
- Inter Press Service
Fighting the front line battle against global warming, with the participation of all sectors of society, is the cornerstone of a United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) pilot project in Uruguay that is drawing attention from the rest of the world.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Watch the Birdies
- Inter Press Service
Ornithologists say that climate change is having a profound effect on bird behaviour and suggest that this phenomenon can act as an early warning system to the dangers posed to Earth.
SOUTH ASIA: Harness Untapped Renewable Energy Sources -- Experts
- Inter Press Service
With its vast renewable energy potential, South Asia can lead the world in achieving energy security.
URUGUAY: Forestry Industry Boom Brings Jobs and Challenges
- Inter Press Service
'After work, when I'm on my own, I'm bored to death. If you want amenities, you have to bring them yourself,' says young forestry worker Alejandro de Leiva, who works on a tree plantation in the western Uruguayan province of Paysandú, where he lives and works for 10 to 12 days in a row, with just two days off.
ENVIRONMENT-INDIA: Creeping Deserts and Crouching Hunger
- Inter Press Service
It is just the beginning of the year, but M. Manju Laxmi already feels anxious. In four months or so, she will be back to her old routine: stuffing the wide chinks under her weathered closed doors and windows with her old saris.
BIODIVERSITY: Invasive Species Multiply in U.S. Waterways
- Inter Press Service
As 2010, the U.N.'s International Year of Biodiversity, gets underway, a fight against some of the most damaging invasive species in U.S. waterways is heating up.
URUGUAY: From Open Sewer to Green Parkway
- Inter Press Service
For decades, the Miguelete, the main waterway running through the Uruguayan capital, was a virtual open sewer that the capital had turned its back on, along with its past as the site of the traditional Sunday promenade in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
EGYPT: Rooftops Empower the Poor
- Inter Press Service
In one of the poorest and most populous neighborhoods of Cairo, Hussein Soliman and his family live in a small apartment that is a model of clean energy living.
TANZANIA: Addressing Energy Crisis Through Alternatives and Efficiency at Household Level
- Inter Press Service
Tanzania's electricity grid is fed by a mixture of natural gas, diesel and hydropower; however, over the past few years the country has experienced severe blackouts and power rationing in urban areas due to drought and subsequent low-water levels.
COLOMBIA: Women Empowered by Restoring Desertified Land
- Inter Press Service
Indigenous and rural women from southern Tolima, a province located in the heart of Colombia, are lending a hand to the bleak land around them, with the aim of simultaneously recovering the ecosystem and regaining their own dignity, in a community effort that is changing their environment and their lives.
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