News headlines for “Biodiversity”, page 699
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.
ENVIRONMENT-GUATEMALA: SOS from Lake Atitlán
- Inter Press Service
A thick, chocolate-coloured scum floats on the normally clear blue waters of Lake Atitlán, in the southwestern Guatemalan province of Sololá, caused by agricultural fertilisers and untreated sewage from surrounding villages and farms.
POLITICS: Climate Change High on Commonwealth Agenda
- Inter Press Service
It is normally a conference bringing together leaders from Britain and its former colonies.
DEVELOPMENT: 'Water Gap' to Widen Dramatically by 2030
- Inter Press Service
A balanced approach of demand- and supply-side measures are needed to meet a growing 'water gap' in which global water demand will be 40 percent more than supply by 2030, says a new report from the 2030 Water Resources Group.
ZAMBIA: Putting Waste to Work
- Inter Press Service
When Obed Mumba first came to the Zambian copper mining town of Ndola in search of work, it was still known reverently as 'Ku kalale' - the land of the white man. In the decades since, he has witnessed his Kabushi township outgrow the limited dreams of its planners.
Q&A: ‘Creating Artificial Glaciers Is Simple, Easy and Replicable’
- Inter Press Service
His is a classic case of a man’s fight against nature in this trans-Himalayan region of Ladakh, as he battles climate change.
INDIA: ‘Glacier Man’ Vows to Build More Artificial Glaciers
- Inter Press Service
He is well known as India’s ‘glacier man’, but for 74-year-old retired government civil engineer, Chewang Norphel, accolades have made little dent in his quiet determination to build more high-altitude water conservation systems, or ‘artificial glaciers’, to beat the lack of water from receding Himalayan glaciers.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Health at Risk
- Inter Press Service
The impacts of climate change on human health will require new approaches to development, based on mitigation and adaptation programmes in line with policies that ensure equal access to health care.
CLIMATE CHANGE: The Danish Example
- Inter Press Service
Whether a new internationally binding treaty to reduce greenhouse gases and forestall climate change will be signed next month remains to be seen. What is clear though, is that if there is a place in the world that deserves to be the stage where this treaty ought to be signed, it is the Danish capital of Copenhagen.
CLIMATE CHANGE-MEXICO: A Policy of Pretence
- Inter Press Service
Although it is the second largest emitter of greenhouse gases in Latin America and the Caribbean, after Brazil, and will be hosting next year's United Nations climate meeting, Mexico is heading to the Cophenhagen summit practically empty-handed.
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