News headlines for “Biodiversity”, page 687
SRI LANKA: A Nation Struggles to Forget a Tragedy
- Inter Press Service
Waves hitting a train and carriages half submerged in water. Scores of men, women and children leaping above the water, hands outstretched, bodies strewn all over.
JAPAN: Solar Trend Catches Fire among Households
- Inter Press Service
The global community may have been dismayed by the outcome of the recently concluded climate change talks in Copenhagen, but Mami Naito, 42, is not about to put off dealing with this global phenomenon in her own small way. 'We very much like the idea of joining the efforts to prevent global warming,' says the mother of two.
URUGUAY: 'Dry Toilets' Provide Ecological Solution in Slums
- Inter Press Service
Marisabel's modest home had no plumbing, like the rest of the dwellings in this poor suburb on the outskirts of Montevideo, the capital of this small South American country.
RIGHTS: Glimmer of Hope for Detained Pakistani Fishermen
- Inter Press Service
Mai Asi has never stopped mourning for her two fishermen sons. They have been held behind bars in India for poaching in the waters of neighbouring Pakistan—a crime for which they were sentenced to two years’ imprisonment.
AGRICULTURE: Cattle 'Black Death' Banished to History
- Inter Press Service
An animal 'black death' that has devastated livestock around the world for thousands of years, causing famine and untold human misery, is about to be permanently consigned to the history books.
DEVELOPMENT: Tsunami Brings Sea Change in Coastal Lives
- Inter Press Service
Tragic as it was, the Asian tsunami wrought a sea change in the lives of survivors in the sleepy coastal hamlets of southern Tamil Nadu state, where some 8,000 people are known to have died.
AFRICA: Drying, Drying, Disappearing…
- Inter Press Service
Lake Chad was bigger than Israel less than 50 years ago. Today its surface area is les than a tenth of its earlier size, amid forecasts the lake could disappear altogether within 20 years.
PARAGUAY: Bottled Water Scare Exposes Threat to Groundwater
- Inter Press Service
It all started with a warning on the quality of bottled water in Paraguay. But concern has now spread about the extent of pollution of the country's underground water reserves.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Ice Melting Faster Everywhere
- Inter Press Service
From the Arctic sea ice to the Antarctic interior and the mountainous peaks of Peru, Alaska, and Tibet, ice is melting at an alarming rate. The accelerating loss of ice sheets, sea ice, and glaciers is one of the most powerful and striking indicators of a warming climate.
MADAGASCAR: Worrying Lapse in Forest Management
- Inter Press Service
The illegal logging of precious wood rose sharply during the political crisis that gripped Madagascar during 2009. Forest communities, who could be part of the preservation of these resources, have been swept up in the rush for rosewood.
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