Global Issues
News headlines for “Nature and Animal Conservation”, page 277
Gold Mine Aggravates Tensions in Brazil’s Amazon Region
- Inter Press Service
RESSACA, Brazil, Apr 07 (IPS) - The decline of this town is seen in the rundown houses and shuttered stores, and the few people along the streets on a Sunday when the scorching sun alternates with frequent rains at this time of year in Brazil's Amazon region.
UN Strengthens Kenya’s Resilience to Disaster
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Apr 07 (IPS) - Kenya's lack of capacity to cope with wide-scale disaster has seen thousands of households continue to live precarious lives, especially in light of erratic and drastically changing weather patterns.
Green Power: Wave of the Future
- Inter Press Service
PARIS/FRANKFURT/LONDON, Apr 05 (IPS) - The price of renewable energy — especially solar power — continues to tumble, and the result is more green power generating capacity for fewer dollars.
That's the bottom line message from the latest figures on world investment in clean technologies.
Plastic No More... Also in Kenya
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Apr 04 (IPS) - Good news: Kenya has just joined the commitment of other 10 countries to address major plastic pollution by decreeing a ban on the use, manufacture and import of all plastic bags, to take effect in six months.
Catastrophic Antibiotic Threat from Food
- Inter Press Service
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Apr 04 (IPS) - The greatly excessive use of antibiotics in food production in recent decades has made many bacteria more resistant to antibiotics. The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has estimated that antibiotic use in animal husbandry, poultry farming and aquaculture in the US is over four times USDA recommended levels. Meanwhile, the US Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) has estimated that 80 percent of all antibiotics sold in the USA are used on animals.
El Salvador Passes Pathbreaking Law Banning Metal Mining
- Inter Press Service
Climate Change Solutions Can’t Wait for U.S. Leadership
- Inter Press Service
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Apr 04 (IPS) - From tourism-dependent nations like Barbados to those rich with natural resources like Guyana, climate change poses one of the biggest challenges for the countries of the Caribbean.
Brazilian Dam Causes Too Much or Too Little Water in Amazon Villages
- Inter Press Service
ALTAMIRA, Brazil, Apr 01 (IPS) - The Juruna indigenous village of Miratu mourned the death of Jarliel twice: once on October 26, when he drowned in the Xingu River, and the second time when the sacred burial ground was flooded by an unexpected rise in the river that crosses Brazil's Amazon region.
Indonesian Farmers Weather Climate Change with Conservation Agriculture
- Inter Press Service
JAKARTA, Mar 31 (IPS) - Fifty-two-year-old farmer Theresia Loda was effusive when asked how conservation agriculture has changed her economic situation.
How a Devastating Hurricane Led to St. Vincent’s First Sustainability School
- Inter Press Service
KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent, Mar 30 (IPS) - In the 1980s, an institution for troubled Danish youth and a vocational school for Vincentians was built in Richmond Vale, an agricultural district on the northwestern tip of St. Vincent.
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