Global Issues
News headlines for “Consumption and Consumerism”, page 1342
Cuban Higher Education Changing in Times of Reform
- Inter Press Service
HAVANA, Aug 13 (IPS) - Enrolment in Cuban universities fell by 25.8 percent during the past school year, as young people are being oriented toward fields with more employment opportunities, such as agriculture, in the context of sweeping economic reforms that are also affecting public education.
From the Field to the Rubbish Heap
- Inter Press Service
PORT MORESBY, Aug 13 (IPS) - Agriculture provides a livelihood to the majority of the population in Papua New Guinea, a developing island nation of approximately seven million in the south west Pacific. However, the loss and waste of an estimated half of all fresh produce between harvesting and marketing is threatening improvements to food security and local incomes.
Families of ‘Little Boy’ and ‘Fat Man’ Victims Still Struggling
- Inter Press Service
TOKYO, Aug 11 (IPS) - Sachiko Masumura (79) was standing just two kilometres away from the hypocentre of Little Boy, the atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan over six and a half decades ago.
Kenyan Differences Melt With Gold
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Aug 11 (IPS) - When Kenyan athlete David Lekuta Rudisha simultaneously became the first person ever to break the 1min 41sec mark in the 800m while also becoming the first person to set a world record at this year’s London Olympics on Thursday Aug. 9, he managed another first. He briefly united an ethnically divided nation.
U.S. Drought Exposes "Hydro-Illogical" Water Management
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Aug 11 (IPS) - The historic drought withering much of the United States this summer has revealed a need for strategies to better manage water supplies that could remain under severe pressure both this year and in the longer term.
Jeju Island Base Divides Korean, International Green Groups
- Inter Press Service
KAUAI, Hawaii, Aug 10 (IPS) - As construction of a hotly contested naval base on South Korea’s Jeju Island advances, there’s a showdown underway.
It’s Either Orangutans Or Cheap Palm Oil
- Inter Press Service
JAKARTA, Aug 10 (IPS) - When four men were sentenced to eight months in jail in March for the ‘murder’ of orangutans, it was the first time that people associated with Indonesia’s booming palm oil industry were convicted for killing man’s close relations in the primate family.
“Latin America’s Miracle” - the Land of Invisible Inequality
- Inter Press Service
SANTIAGO, Aug 09 (IPS) - It’s Friday morning, and Carlos, an executive at a real estate firm in the Chilean capital, gets up knowing that he will knock off early that day, as he does at the end of every week, to enjoy the weekend in the family’s vacation apartment on the coast with his wife and three daughters.
Waste Issue Halts U.S. Nuclear Reactor Licensing
- Inter Press Service
ATLANTA, Georgia, Aug 09 (IPS) - The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, which oversees commercial nuclear power enterprises, has halted the issuance of all new nuclear reactor licensing decisions after a court ruling citing the failure of industry and government to identify an acceptable solution for the long-term storage of nuclear waste.
Mauritian Fishers Want EU Vessels Out of Their Seas
- Inter Press Service
PORT LOUIS, Aug 09 (IPS) - “Look out there, the blue one…. that is a European Union fishing vessel that is threatening our livelihood,” says Lallmamode Mohamedally, a Mauritian fisherman, as he points to a boat offloading its catch at the Les Salines port, close to the country’s capital Port Louis.
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