Global Issues
News headlines for “Human Population”, page 387
IPCC Climate Report Warns of “Growing Adaptation Deficit”
- Inter Press Service
Somali Diaspora Not Ready to Buy One-Way Tickets Home Yet
- Inter Press Service
KAMPALA, Mar 31 (IPS) - On a Friday afternoon men wearing long kamis — long white traditional robes — climb the steps to Somcity Travel, a small family business and travel agency in Kisenyi slum, in Uganda's capital, Kampala. The agency boasts that they "fly all over the world" but to one destination in particular — Somalia.
The Lady’s Allure Is Challenged
- Inter Press Service
YANGON, Mar 31 (IPS) - For over a quarter of a century Uhla Min has lived under the spell of ‘The Lady', the popular nickname for Nobel Peace Laureate Aung Sung Suu Kyi.
The Gambia’s Women Demand a Seat at the Political Table
- Inter Press Service
BANJUL, Mar 30 (IPS) - The countdown to the Gambia's 2016 general elections has begun with a rare move to bring together female politicians from across the divided political spectrum to ensure increased female representation.
Sahel Food Crisis Overshadowed by Regional Conflict
- Inter Press Service
TUNIS, Mar 28 (IPS) - Still not enough is being done to improve the food emergency in Africa's Sahel Region as conflict and instability continue to exacerbate any response towards improving the situation where one in eight people suffer from food insecurity.
Look Who’s Helping Olive Ridley
- Inter Press Service
GANJAM, India, Mar 27 (IPS) - When Olive Ridley sea turtles nest on the beach in his village, little Warthy Raju can barely wait for the millions of hatchlings, with their three-inch shells and thumb-sized heads, to scramble out.
A Honduran Paradise that Doesn’t Want to Anger the Sea Again
- Inter Press Service
SANTA ROSA DE AGUÃN, Honduras, Mar 26 (IPS) - At the mouth of the Aguán river on the Caribbean coast of Honduras, a Garífuna community living in a natural paradise that was devastated 15 years ago by Hurricane Mitch has set an example of adaptation to climate change.
Pacific Islands At Sea Over Land Rights
- Inter Press Service
SYDNEY, Mar 26 (IPS) - For many Pacific Islanders, customary land is the source of life, identity and social security. However, most island states are developing countries, and governments claim land reform is needed to improve infrastructure and economic development. Registration of customary land, the predominant tenure system, with more options for leasing to the state and developers is being promoted as the way forward.
Despite Risks, Cuban Fisher Families Don’t Want to Leave the Sea
- Inter Press Service
HAVANA, Mar 25 (IPS) - The road to Guanímar, a fishing village on the southern coast of Cuba, is as narrow as the future of its 252 inhabitants, who don't want to abandon the area despite its vulnerability to hurricanes, storm surges and flooding.
Zimbabwe’s Growing Electronic Waste Becomes a Real Danger
- Inter Press Service
HARARE, Mar 25 (IPS) - Electronic waste in Zimbabwe is becoming "an emerging environmental crisis that is by and large unheralded," according to Steady Kangata, the education and publicity manager of the government-run Environmental Management Agency (EMA).
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