News headlines for “Energy Security”, page 119
Netanyahu Budging Slightly on Iran
- Inter Press Service
JERUSALEM, Oct 23 (IPS) - Israel keeps urging the group of six major powers to agree nothing less than a full dismantlement of Iran's nuclear capability. Yet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu might have to come to terms with settling for an agreement which, though sustainable, falls short of his longstanding demand.
No Safe Havens in Increasingly Acid Oceans
- Inter Press Service
UXBRIDGE, Canada, Oct 15 (IPS) - Oil, gas and coal are contaminating the world's oceans from top to bottom, threatening the lives of more than 800 million people, a new study warns Tuesday.
Not Fukushima Again
- Inter Press Service
TOKYO, Oct 15 (IPS) - Two and a half years ago, Ayako Oga, now 30, found herself helpless as an earthquake and the tsunami it triggered hit Japan and crippled four reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. She and her husband were forced to abandon their village Ookuma Machi, barely five kilometres away.
U.S. Science Reporters Becoming an Endangered Species
- Inter Press Service
CHATTANOOGA, Tennessee, Oct 15 (IPS) - The news for environmental journalism in the United States is grim and getting grimmer.
Iran Talks to Resume Amid Guarded Optimism
- Inter Press Service
GENEVA, Oct 13 (IPS) - Almost exactly four months after the election of Iran's new president, Hassan Rouhani, talks over the Islamic Republic's controversial nuclear programme will resume here on Tuesday.
Brazil in Reverse
- Inter Press Service
RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct 11 (IPS) - In the last five years, Brazil has joined the ranks of the world's big polluters, whose main source of greenhouse gases is the burning of fossil fuels.
Energy Hits New Rocks in Mongolia
- Inter Press Service
TOV PROVINCE, Mongolia, Oct 10 (IPS) - Mongolia, 90 percent dependent on fuel imports from Russia and vulnerable to price hikes, is seeking to develop its oil shale deposits of at least 800 billion tons.
Chile’s Mining Industry Turns to Sunlight to Ease Energy Shortage
- Inter Press Service
SANTIAGO, Oct 08 (IPS) - The mining industry in the north of Chile, the world's leading producer of copper, is trying to partially satisfy its insatiable appetite for energy with a renewable, ever-available source: the sun.
Small Island Economies Battered by Erratic Weather
- Inter Press Service
CASTRIES, St. Lucia, Oct 07 (IPS) - Malcolm Wallace always knew on which side his bread would be buttered.
How to Tell the Biggest Stories of Our Times
- Inter Press Service
CHATTANOOGA, Tennessee, U.S., Oct 05 (IPS) - What does gorilla conservation have in common with the provision of contraceptives to women? How does rural-urban migration contribute to global warming? What does city planning in Kenya have to do with coastal erosion in the Philippines?
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