News headlines for “Biodiversity”, page 698
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.
BRAZIL: Development Bank Funds Destructive Projects, Say Activists
- Inter Press Service
Public money in Brazil is being used by the state development bank to finance deforestation projects and others that trample rights, concentrate wealth, and encourage 'imperialist' expansion of large national companies, according to activists at a three-day meeting in this southeastern city.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Fears Forest Proposals Are 'Human Rights Disaster'
- Inter Press Service
The clean, ultra-modern chrome and glass lines of the Bella Centre, in the Danish capital Copenhagen, is a world away from the thronging canopy suspended over the tropical forests of Uganda, or the Democratic Republic of Congo, or Cameroon.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Obama to Visit Copenhagen with U.S. Targets
- Inter Press Service
After weeks of speculation, the White House announced Wednesday that President Barack Obama will stop by the climate talks to be held in Copenhagen next month en route to Oslo, where he will receive his Nobel Peace Prize Dec. 10.
CLIMATE CHANGE: 'No Politics in the Melting of the Ice Sheet'
- Inter Press Service
As climate scientists defend their work from sceptics in the aftermath of researchers' emails being stolen over the weekend, a new report hopes to provide an update on science's latest climate-related findings.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Latin America's Perpetual Fever
- Inter Press Service
'To use a soccer metaphor, which Brazilian politicians like so much, the Kyoto Protocol was the 10-minute warm-up before the real game begins,' said scientist Carlos Nobre in reference to global climate change treaties.
DEVELOPMENT: Lights Out - World's Poor Remain in the Dark
- Inter Press Service
With the flip of a switch, a light comes on or an electric toothbrush revs to power. If service is cut, either for repairs or because of a natural cause, there will most likely be much fuss about how quickly power is restored - to people who live in the developed world.
ENVIRONMENT: Gov't Silence Dooms Whales to Slaughter
- Inter Press Service
Latin American governments are considering a bloc response to the Japanese whaling fleet's departure for Antarctica, in a new season of what it claims is 'hunting for scientific purposes' and which threatens to kill 1,000 whales in the protected Southern Ocean sanctuary.
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