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BIODIVERSITY: Mammals Face Extinction Crisis
08 10 2008 BARCELONA, Oct 7 (TerraViva/IPS) - One in four mammals on Earth is at risk of disappearing forever, according to the new "Red List of Threatened Species" released by the Geneva-based International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) on Monday.
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BIODIVERSITY: Mammals Face Extinction Crisis
08 10 2008 BARCELONA, Oct 7 (TerraViva/IPS) - One in four mammals on Earth is at risk of disappearing forever, according to the new "Red List of Threatened Species" released by the Geneva-based International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) on Monday.
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ENVIRONMENT: Twisted As Unnaturally as the Banks
07 10 2008 BARCELONA, Oct 6 (IPS/Terraviva) - The financial meltdown in most of the industrialised world presents an opportunity for a new economic model that would end short-sighted search for high returns, according to leading economists attending the IUCN World Conservation Congress here.
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ENVIRONMENT: Twisted As Unnaturally as the Banks
07 10 2008 BARCELONA, Oct 6 (IPS) - The financial meltdown in most of the industrialised world presents an opportunity for a new economic model that would end short-sighted search for high returns, according to leading economists attending the IUCN World Conservation Congress here.
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ARGENTINA: Guardians of the River
03 10 2008 PUERTO RECONQUISTA, Argentina, Oct 2 (IPS) - "There is no water…there are no fish," says Olga Ledesma, her skin weathered from 40 years of small-scale fishing, as the boat slowly winds its way along a branch of the Paraná river, South America’s second-longest river.
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ARGENTINA: Guardians of the River
02 10 2008 PUERTO RECONQUISTA, Argentina, Oct 2 (IPS) - "There is no water…there are no fish," says Olga Ledesma, her skin weathered from 40 years of small-scale fishing, as the boat slowly winds its way along a branch of the Paraná river, South America’s second-longest river.
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ENVIRONMENT-AUSTRALIA: Discoveries Highlight Danger to Reefs
02 10 2008 MELBOURNE, Oct 2 (IPS) - Efforts to create an inventory of life on Australia’s major coral reefs -- to be used as part of a baseline to determine the impacts of global warming and overfishing upon reefs -- have turned up hundreds of previously unknown and rare species.
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ARGENTINA: Women Create Food and Jobs in Wetlands
02 10 2008 SANTA FE, Argentina, Oct 1 (Tierramérica) - Wearing a cap and a white apron, Melina Lucero cuts the heads and tails off fish caught in the Paraná River, before skilfully filleting them. Her co-workers will process and package the fish to sell as traditional, small-scale fish preserves at food fairs along the banks of the river in Argentina.
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Q&A: 'Oil Prices Have Revived Interest in Dams'
30 09 2008 VIENTIANE , Sep 30 (IPS) - Concerns over the future of fisheries in the Mekong River floated to the surface at the first round of discussions held here late this month to shape a blueprint to build a series of mega dams across South-east Asia’s largest body of water.
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Q&A: 'Oil Prices Have Revived Interest in Dams'
30 09 2008 VIENTIANE , Sep 30 (IPS) - Concerns over the future of fisheries in the Mekong River floated to the surface at the first round of discussions held here late this month to shape a blueprint to build a series of mega dams across South-east Asia’s largest body of water.
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VIETNAM: Heeding Climate Change Warnings
29 09 2008 HANOI, Sep 29 (IPS) - With a predicted sea level rise of one metre by 2100, Vietnam may end up being one of the nations worst hit by climate change. Such a rise would affect five percent of the land area, 11 percent of the population and seven percent of the agriculture.
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ASIA: Calamities, Climate Change - Reprieve for Mangroves
24 09 2008 BANGKOK, Sep 24 (IPS) - Lack of access to military-ruled Burma has not stopped a global environmental body from setting its sights on the country’s Irrawaddy Delta, which was devastated by a powerful cyclone in early May. Rehabilitating mangroves is the draw.
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EUROPE: Transgenic Crops' Days May Be Numbered
17 09 2008 LISBON, Sep 16 (IPS) - Pressure from the president of the European Commission has not succeeded in advancing the cause of transgenic crops. In spite of the power wielded by the executive organ of the European Union, the bloc’s member countries are gradually discontinuing the use of genetically modified seeds.
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BRAZIL: Courts - the Battleground for Fight Against Paper Mills
15 09 2008 PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil, Sep 15 (Tierramérica) - The battle against the wood pulp ndustry has intensified in the Brazilian courts, especially in those states where eucalyptus plantations have expanded the most: Bahia and Espírito Santo in the east and Rio Grande do Sul in the south.
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ENVIRONMENT-BRAZIL: Click Here to Plant a Tree
08 09 2008 RIO DE JANEIRO, Sep 7 (Tierramérica) - It has become fashionable in Latin America to pursue initiatives towards "zero carbon", neutralising the climate-changing greenhouse gases produced by industry, commercial aviation and even the football World Cup -- and along with it, atoning for the environmental sins of polluters.
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VIETNAM: Paying for Ecosystems
05 09 2008 HANOI, Sep 4 (IPS) - Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES), an environmental scheme now being trialled in this South-east Asian country, may serve as a model for the region, if found successful.
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VIETNAM: Paying for Ecosystems
04 09 2008 HANOI, Sep 4 (IPS) - Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES), an environmental scheme now being trialled in this South-east Asian country, may serve as a model for the region, if found successful.
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ENVIRONMENT: Amazon Increasingly Oily
29 08 2008 LIMA, Aug 28 (Tierramérica) - More than 180 oil and natural gas fields extend across the western Amazon, shared by five South American countries and threatening biodiversity and indigenous lands, warns a study by U.S.-based organisations.
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ENVIRONMENT: Conservation as Artists' Muse
26 08 2008 SAN DIEGO, California, Aug 25 (IPS) - Pulled-together socialites and not-so-sloppy artists recently gathered for an atypical art exhibition in San Diego that combines art with wilderness conservation, using contemporary art to investigate vanishing worlds and the people that inhabit them.
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Q&A: "Amazonas State Is in the Environmental Vanguard"
23 08 2008 MANAOS, Brazil, Aug 23 (Tierramérica) - The Brazilian state of Amazonas is "a quarry of ideas and creativity" and is in the vanguard for having preserved 98 percent of its native forests, paying for environmental services, and enacting the pioneering Climate Change Act, says Nadia D'Ávila Ferreira, the state's secretary for the environment and sustainable development.
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BRAZIL: Setting an Important Precedent for Indigenous Lands
22 08 2008 BOA VISTA, Roraima, Brazil, Aug 21 (IPS) - An imminent decision by Brazil’s Supreme Court on the demarcation of the Raposa Serra do Sol indigenous reservation in the Amazon jungle region has the country’s native communities on edge, because of the precedent it will set.
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BOLIVIA: Businesses Take On the Green Challenge
21 08 2008 LA PAZ, Aug 20 (Tierramérica) - What do Bolivia's largest textile mill, an organic cacao cooperative and an indigenous-run tourist hostel in the Amazon have in common? The answer lies in the path, shaky but inspiring, that they are all taking towards sustainable production.
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ENVIRONMENT-GERMANY: Fleeing Famine, Bees Seek Asylum in Cities
16 08 2008 BERLIN, Aug 14 (IPS) - For German bees, the countryside is no longer what it used to be. They are fleeing insecticides and genetically modified crops to take refuge in cities.
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Q&A: "Cancún’s White Sands Wouldn’t Exist Without Coral"
01 08 2008 FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida, U.S., Jul 31 (Tierramérica) - "There would be no white sands on the beaches of Cancún without the Mesoamerican reef," Professor Roberto Iglesias-Prieto, a marine ecophysiologist working at the Institute of Marine Sciences and Limnology of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, told Tierramérica.
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LATIN AMERICA: Ingenuity at the Service of Sustainable Business
28 07 2008 CARACAS, Jul 28 (Tierramérica) - A company will extract silver from the same contaminants it proposes to clean up; a cooperative of the formerly unemployed will export designer clothing; some small farmers are planting new varieties of manioc that double the yield with fewer agro-toxins; others are linking agriculture in the Amazon with protection of the forest.
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