News headlines for “Nature and Animal Conservation”, page 85
Climate Change Is Taking a Major Toll on Agriculture. Here's How to Support Farmers
- Inter Press Service
DHAKA, Bangladesh, Jan 19 (IPS) - Asif Saleh, Executive Director, BRACHalf the world eats rice. In Bangladesh, everyone eats it. The small, densely-populated nation is the third-highest rice-producing country in the world.
Advanced Economies Must Let the IMF Play a Productive Role on Climate
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON DC, Jan 12 (IPS) - The world faces the existential threat of a climate change crisis, and it is becoming increasingly clear that the outcome of the latest UN climate summit, COP28 — hosted as it was by the CEO of one of the world’s largest oil companies, and filled with a record number of fossil fuel lobbyists — is not going to do much to change that.
Cooperative Farming Makes Bangladesh's Coastal Women Farmers Climate-Resilient
- Inter Press Service
PATUAKHALI, BANGLADESH, Jan 10 (IPS) - In the past, Salma Begum, 40, lost her crops every year due to natural disasters. She lives with her five-member family in Ashabaria village under Rangabali upazila, a remote coastal island in Patuakhali district.
From Chemical Engineer to Climate Justice Avenger: A Journey with Yamide Dagnet
- Inter Press Service
SAINT LUCIA, Jan 09 (IPS) - As a child on the French-Caribbean island of Guadeloupe, Yamide Dagnet dreamed of launching rockets into space.
Nigeria Prioritizes Climate Action to Mitigate Natural Disasters
- Inter Press Service
ABUJA, Nigeria, Jan 02 (IPS) - In 2022 alone, flooding killed at least 662 people, injured 3,174, displaced about 2.5 million, and destroyed 200,000 houses individuals.
As far back as 2012, the World Bank reported that erosion was affecting over 6,000 square kilometres of land in the country, with about 3,400 square kilometres highly exposed.
Amidst a Horrendous 2023, Civil Society is Fighting Back Society
- Inter Press Service
TORONTO, Canada, Dec 22 (IPS) - The year 2023 has brought so much tragedy, with incomprehensible loss of lives, whether from wars or devastating ‘natural’ disasters, while our planet has seen yet more records broken as our climate catastrophe worsens.
The Opaque Chain of Electric Cars Assembled in Mexico
- Inter Press Service
AUSTIN, Texas, US, Dec 20 (IPS) - The city of Austin, Texas, on the U.S.-Mexico border, had 945,000 residents in 2021 and on average each household owned two cars, hundreds of them electric. Among the manufacturers of these electric vehicles are companies such as the US Tesla, Ford and General Motors (GM).
Saving Energy, Saving Forests: How Kindle Stoves Are Changing Women's Lives
- Inter Press Service
KEZI, ZIMBABWE, Dec 20 (IPS) - Five years ago, farmer Sehlisiwe Sisanda would walk into a nearby forested area to fill a scotch cart with huge wood logs for cooking and heating; a pile of firewood would last her a week during the summer.
New Megaport in Peru Ignores Complaints from Local Residents
- Inter Press Service
CHANCAY, Peru, Dec 19 (IPS) - "We have always lived a very quiet life here, but everything has changed since the construction of the multi-purpose port began a few years ago," said Miriam Arce, a neighborhood leader in this municipality 80 kilometers north of the Peruvian capital, where the new port is projected to become the epicenter of trade between China and South American countries.
Watching the Arctic Melt, Meteorologist's Experience on Icebreaker Oden
- Inter Press Service
STOCKHOLM, Dec 19 (IPS) - Conflicting emotions greet the outcomes of COP28. After 28 years of climate conferences, an agreement has, for the first time, proclaimed that fossil fuels are the biggest culprit behind the warming of our planet and stated that it would encourage all nations to “accelerating action in this critical decade so as to achieve net zero by 2050 in keeping with the science." The agreement calls for, among other things, a tripling of renewable energy by 2030, but also an increased pace in the work to develop technical solutions for the separation and storage of carbon dioxide, an extremely expensive and, so far, limited effort.
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