News headlines for “Biodiversity”, page 686
ENVIRONMENT: Invasion of the Little Green Molecules
- Inter Press Service
While the world's climate negotiators were getting ready for Copenhagen earlier this month, a meeting was taking place in Mumbai to discuss progress in green chemistry, a field that — like the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions — has the potential to greatly enhance the world's environmental health and sustainability.
SOUTH AFRICA: Late Start For Crayfish Licences
- Inter Press Service
Long after the official opening of the crayfish season in South Africa on November 15, the boats lay idle on the beach in West Coast fishing villages like Paternoster. Fishing permits from the Marine and Coastal Managment unit (MCM) of the Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism had not been issued.
SOUTH AFRICA: 'They Haven’t Got a Choice: They Must Go to Sea'
- Inter Press Service
Because of an unfair fishing quota system, more and more small South African fishing communities struggle to survive.
ENVIRONMENT: Fishing in the Sewer
- Inter Press Service
After four hours on the Nile in a rowboat with his two sons, fisher Hussein Abdel Malek tallies the morning catch: a plastic water bottle, an empty juice box, a half dozen plastic bags and two small tilapia.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Doors Opening for Carbon Tax
- Inter Press Service
With the chance for a global climate change treaty on hold, a tax on greenhouse gases could be an effective alternative for discouraging the activities that create emissions, say economists and environmentalists.
TANZANIA: Community Still Worried By Mine Contamination
- Inter Press Service
Susanna Solomon is still tending her shamba, but she won't eat the harvest from her farm when it's ready.
HUNGER: New Warning on Food Security for Horn of Africa
- Inter Press Service
The European Commission Humanitarian Aid Department (ECHO) has raised a red flag over the worsening food security situation in the Horn of Africa.
DEVELOPMENT: Filipino Communities Turn Trash Into Cash
- Inter Press Service
Days after the New Year’s Eve revelry dies down, expect colorful lanterns or wreaths to remain hanging on the windows of many Filipino homes — part of a tradition in this South-east Asian country known to have the longest Yuletide celebration in the world.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Carbon Prices Reflect an Uncertain Year
- Inter Press Service
As what was supposed to be a breakthrough year for action on climate change comes to a close, one indicator of the disappointment surrounding an anti-climactic outcome in Copenhagen and stalled U.S. Senate legislation can be seen on the European Climate Exchange.
ENVIRONMENT-CONGO: Defence of Great Apes Begins With Children
- Inter Press Service
'But why do they kill gorillas, why do they trap them and put them in cages? One day, if i'm president, i'll stop all those who kill gorillas, chimpanzees and bonobos,' says 11-year-old Judicaëlle, a student at the Holy Sprit of Moungali School in Brazzaville.
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