Global Issues
News headlines for “Causes of Poverty”, page 968
Protecting Biodiversity in Costa Rica’s Thermal Convection Dome in the Pacific
- Inter Press Service
SAN JOSE, Oct 20 (IPS) - The vast habitat known as the Costa Rican Thermal Convection Dome in the eastern Pacific Ocean will finally become a protected zone, over 50 years after it was first identified as one of the planet's most biodiversity-rich marine areas.
Belize Fights to Save a Crucial Barrier Reef
- Inter Press Service
BELIZE CITY, Oct 20 (IPS) - Home to the second longest barrier reef in the world and the largest in the Western Hemisphere, which provides jobs in fishing, tourism and other industries which feed the lifeblood of the economy, Belize has long been acutely aware of the need to protect its marine resources from both human and natural activities.
Warmer Days a Catastrophe in the Making for Kenya’s Pastoralists
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Oct 20 (IPS) - Seif Hassan is a pastoralist from Garissa, Northern Kenya, some 380 kilometres outside of the capital, Nairobi. He sells his animals at the Garissa livestock market where, during a good season, pastoralists can sell up to 5,000 animals per week and "it is a cash-making business."
OPINION: Innovation Needed to Help Family Farms Thrive
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Oct 19 (IPS) - Family farms have been contributing to food security and nutrition for centuries, if not millennia. But with changing demand for food as well as increasingly scarce natural resources and growing demographic pressures, family farms will need to innovate rapidly to thrive.
Pacific Climate Change Warriors Block World’s Largest Coal Port
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 18 (IPS) - Climate Change Warriors from 12 Pacific Island nations paddled canoes into the world's largest coal port in Newcastle, Australia, Friday to bring attention to their grave fears about the consequences of climate change on their home countries.
Israel Planning Mass Expulsion of Bedouins from West Bank
- Inter Press Service
Family Farmers – Forward to the Future
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Oct 17 (IPS) - "Who is more concerned than the rural family with regards to preservation of natural resources for future generations?"
OPINION: The Survivors
- Inter Press Service
VIENNA, Oct 17 (IPS) - Oct. 18 is the EU's Anti-Trafficking Day, as well as the United Kingdom's Anti-Slavery Day. These events offer a good opportunity to talk about human trafficking within Europe's borders, but we should not forget that there are victims and survivors all over the world.
Mexico’s Cocktail of Political and Narco-Violence and Poverty
- Inter Press Service
MEXICO CITY, Oct 17 (IPS) - The images filled the front pages of Mexico's newspapers: 61 half-dressed state policemen kneeling, with their hands tied, in the main square of the town of Tepatepec in the central state of Hidalgo, while local residents threatened to burn them alive.
Writing the Final Chapter on AIDS
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Oct 17 (IPS) - Although AIDS has defied science by killing millions of people throughout Africa in the last three decades, HIV experts now believe that they have found the magic numbers to end AIDS as a public health threat in 15 years.
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