News headlines for “Biodiversity”, page 696
DEVELOPMENT: Indonesia Still Struggling with Disaster Management
- Inter Press Service
Despite being hit by powerful earthquakes this year, Indonesia is still reeling from the lack of an effective disaster management system that could prevent extensive loss of life and damage to property.
U.S.: 'We All Breathe the Same Air and Drink the Same Water'
- Inter Press Service
Some 8,000 kilometres from the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Native American environmental experts from 66 tribes came together at a summit here this week to address the most pressing needs in their communities - problems, all emphasised, that know no geographic boundaries.
ENERGY-MEXICO: Big Plans for Ethanol from Algae
- Inter Press Service
The Mexican company BioFields will begin production in 2014 of an algae-based biofuel at a site 300 kilometres from its border with the United States, which is likely to be its biggest customer.
CLIMATE CHANGE-US: Citizens Back Action, Despite Lobbying Surge
- Inter Press Service
As both Washington and the international community come gradually closer to taking substantive action on climate change at a high-level conference in Copenhagen, a side effect of this progress has been a parallel increase in the intensity of campaigns opposing such action — which may be a factor in the slight dip in the U.S. public's concern about climate change.
CLIMATE CHANGE: 'We Are a Harbinger of What Is to Come'
- Inter Press Service
A small group of indigenous people have travelled here to the historic Copenhagen climate talks to show negotiators dramatic documentary videos they made about the immediate impacts of climate change on their homelands and way of life.
Q&A: Risk Insurance and Climate Change
- Inter Press Service
The catastrophic risk insurance shared by the countries of the Caribbean could serve as a model for collective strategies for dealing with natural disasters resulting from climate change, John Nash, the World Bank's lead economist for Latin America and the Caribbean, told Tierramérica.
DEVELOPMENT: Brazil's Powerhouse Bank
- Inter Press Service
With his slicked-back hair, neatly trimmed, close-cropped beard, and impeccably pressed suits, Luciano Coutinho looks like any other obscure Brazilian banker. But he is anything but an average banking man.
ENVIRONMENT: New Pirate of the Caribbean Invades from Pacific
- Inter Press Service
The red lionfish (Pterois volitans), a venomous coral reef fish from the Indian and western Pacific Oceans, has invaded the waters of the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico, threatening to wreak havoc on ecosystems, native fish populations and popular underwater diving areas.
LATIN AMERICA: Summit Does Not Recognise Elections in Honduras
- Inter Press Service
The hard-line stance taken by Brazil, Argentina and most other Latin American countries has clashed with U.S. efforts to push for international recognition of the elections organised Sunday by the de facto regime in power in Honduras since the Jun. 28 coup.
ENVIRONMENT: Tree Plantations Are Not Forests, Women Activists Say
- Inter Press Service
Touted as 'harvested forests,' single-crop tree plantations are fast encroaching on the native forests and grasslands of Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay, affecting the environment and the lives of local communities, rural women say.
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