Global Issues
News headlines for “Consumption and Consumerism”, page 1480
BIODIVERSITY: Industrial Pollution Brings Crocodile Tears
- Inter Press Service
Industrial pollution from a paper manufacturing factory in one of India’s most precious biodiversity hotspots is wreaking havoc on the local ecology, driving up the population of wild crocodiles in the area while simultaneously destroying the creatures’ habitat and food supply.
Nigerian Bill Criminalises More Than Just Gay People
- Inter Press Service
'The prospect of arriving home... being arrested at the airport - that's kind of scary,' said Osazeme O., a dual citizen of Nigeria and the UK, in a wry understatement.
LATIN AMERICA: Human Rights Agenda Has Expanded
- Inter Press Service
Although the public identifies human rights organisations in Latin America with resistance to the dictatorships of the 1970s and 1980s, for years now these groups have broadened their concerns to encompass environmental and other issues.
Carbon Pricing to Save Green Climate Fund
- Inter Press Service
Carbon pricing will be the core mechanism to finance the Green Climate Fund and with it climate change adaptation projects in developing countries.
SOUTH SUDAN: Returning to an Unsettled Home
- Inter Press Service
Joyous reunions accompanied the latest batch of South Sudanese returning from Sudan to their newly independent homeland. But the returnees will face huge challenges integrating into South Sudan, which became the world’s newest nation on Jul. 9, but also one of the poorest.
UGANDA: Deforestation Robbing Communities of their Income
- Inter Press Service
From a distance, Bugala Island in Lake Victoria is a patchwork of green and brown. The pattern is a result of dense forest retreating in the wake of recently planted palm tree plantations.
Arab Spring Set to Music
- Inter Press Service
The ability of artists to lyrically articulate the growing rage amongst disgruntled youth in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) has seen the emergence of politicised rap as a hidden weapon during the region’s Arab Spring.
DEVELOPMENT: In Crisis, The Rich Get Richer
- Inter Press Service
Mansions on one side of the road, and slums on the other. People queuing for food rations, while others drive by in shiny Land Rovers with tinted windows.
At the Nexus of Agrofuels, Land Grabs and Hunger — Part 1
- Inter Press Service
While the United Nations climate talks in Durban enter their fifth day of political feet-dragging, researchers and peasants around the world are busy connecting the dots between so- called 'green climate solutions', industrialised agriculture and chronic hunger.
False Perceptions Underpin Anti-Migrant Sentiments
- Inter Press Service
The rising tide of anti-migrant sentiment worldwide is caused primarily by the biased, polarised and negative debate on migration, according to a new study released here.
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