News headlines for “Biodiversity”, page 697
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.
CLIMATE CHANGE: India Plays Guessing Game Ahead of Copenhagen
- Inter Press Service
With one week left before the start of the United Nations climate change summit in Copenhagen, there is still no reliable word as to whether Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will attend, or whether or how much the South Asian state will commit itself to emission cuts.
INDIA: Climate Change Fuels Rural Out-Migration, Rising Farm Debt
- Inter Press Service
Under a shed made of bamboo and corrugated sheet metal, Purusottam Sur feeds his two bullocks and a cow with a bundle each of dry paddy plant. A fifth of his five-acre paddy harvest will be used only as cattle feed; the rice seeds just did not develop because of untimely rains this monsoon.
U.S.: Katrina Lawsuit Raises Broader Questions About Levee Safety
- Inter Press Service
Since a federal judge ruled earlier this month that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers was responsible for the devastating 2005 levee breach at the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet (MRGO) in Louisiana during Hurricane Katrina, some legal scholars believe that millions — or even billions - could be owed to additional Hurricane Katrina victims.
CUBA: Sponge Farms - New Source of Bounty from the Sea
- Inter Press Service
The ocean punishes Carahatas every time a hurricane tears through the region. The sea combines with the flow of a nearby river, and floods the houses with water a metre and a half deep, or more. Nevertheless, the residents of this Cuban town are deeply attached to the sea.
MALAYSIA: State of Sarawak Forests: Gov’t Agency Stands by Report
- Inter Press Service
For a long time, activists had believed that rainforests in the vast northwest Borneo state of Sarawak were being logged unsustainably, rapidly making way for tree (acacia) plantations, oil palm plantations, dams and secondary growth. But few listened.
ENERGY-US: Paper Mill is Reborn, Sans Fossil Fuels
- Inter Press Service
A paper mill that runs without fossil fuels and has a neutral carbon footprint? That's the goal for Flambeau River Papers in Park Falls, Wisconsin, and the company is already on its way, thanks to a switch to biomass fuel, plus a biorefinery in the works.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Angry Greenhouse Gas Victims Demand Action
- Inter Press Service
‘Angry’ is not the adjective that comes to mind when you first meet Nelly Damaris Chepkoskei.
HONDURAS: Miracle in the Mangrove Forest
- Inter Press Service
The beating sun in southern Honduras doesn't stop a group of women from throwing themselves into the task of protecting and recuperating a mangrove forest on the Pacific coast.
CLIMATE CHANGE: China’s Carbon Commitment—Low But Sure
- Inter Press Service
China and the United States are wrestling to claim leadership during the upcoming climate change talks in Copenhagen, unveiling proposals to cut greenhouse gases one after the other this week and setting the stage for some tough negotiations. But gauntlets thrown, both face challenges in achieving their pledged targets.
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