DORON-BAGA and KANO, Nigeria, Jan 8 (IPS) - The fittest are fleeing the shores of Lake Chad:
Adamu Modu, a young fisherman, is joining a stream of able-bodied
men heading south to find work in the southern part of the
country.
DORON-BAGA and KANO, Nigeria, Jan 8 (IPS) - The fittest are fleeing the shores of Lake Chad:
Adamu Modu, a young fisherman, is joining a stream of able-bodied
men heading south to find work in the southern part of the
country.
TEL AVIV, Jan 8 (IPS) - Ornithologists say that climate change is having a
profound effect on bird behaviour and suggest that this
phenomenon can act as an early warning system to the dangers
posed to Earth.
SRINAGAR, Jan 7 (IPS) - With its vast renewable energy potential, South
Asia can lead the world in achieving energy security.
WASHINGTON, Jan 4 (IPS) - As 2010, the U.N.’s International Year of
Biodiversity, gets underway, a fight against some of the most
damaging invasive species in U.S. waterways is heating up.
ROME, Jan 1 (IPS) - The world’s hungry have good reason to look to
the new year with trepidation
given the experience of the 12
months that preceded it.
BERLIN, Dec 30 (TierramГ©rica) - With the chance for a global climate change treaty
on hold, a tax on greenhouse gases could be an effective
alternative for discouraging the activities that create
emissions, say economists and environmentalists.
TAGUIG CITY, Philippines, Dec 30 (IPS/IFEJ) - Days after the New Year’s Eve revelry dies down,
expect colorful lanterns or
wreaths to remain hanging on the
windows of many Filipino homes – part of a
tradition in this
South-east Asian country known to have the longest Yuletide
celebration in the world.
ROME, Dec 26 (IPS) - Lake Chad was bigger than Israel less than 50 years
ago. Today its surface area
is less than a tenth of its earlier
size, amid forecasts the lake could disappear
altogether within
20 years.
WASHINGTON, Dec 23 (IPS) - From the Arctic sea ice to the Antarctic interior
and the mountainous peaks of Peru, Alaska, and Tibet, ice is
melting at an alarming rate. The accelerating loss of ice sheets,
sea ice, and glaciers is one of the most powerful and striking
indicators of a warming climate.
REYKJAVIK, Dec 23 (IPS) - Iceland already gets over 72 percent of its energy
from renewable, hydroelectric and geothermal sources, but
Icelanders are ambitious when it comes to energy and scientists
are now looking at osmotic and tidal power to meet future energy
needs.
BERKELEY, California, Dec 21 (IPS) - As countries failed to reach a substantive climate
change pact at Copenhagen last week, action at the subnational
level has emerged as one of the likeliest paths toward
significant climate action.
NEW DELHI, Dec 21 (IPS) - The world supped on an alphabet soup of acronyms
over the nearly two weeks of climate change talks that just ended
– UNFCCC, COP-15, IPCC, CDM, LDCF, MEF, CCS. But did any of these
filter down to reach the average citizen?
COPENHAGEN, Dec 19 (IPS) - The climate change summit proved to be a
“spectacular failure even according to its own terms,”
but civil society had “some successes,” such as the
inclusion of certain issues on the climate agenda, and making the
voice of the South heard loud and clear.
COPENHAGEN, Dec 18 (IPS/TerraViva) - The roof of our house is on fire but our leaders,
our economic system and we ourselves are ignoring the alarms and
continuing to add more fuel. There are no exit doors in our
house; there is nowhere else to go.