Environment

Uruguay’s Public Transport Goes Electric

By Inés Acosta
Uruguay plans to gradually replace oil-based fuels with electric energy in its public transport system, and is currently assessing the costs and benefits of the shift.

Putting Climate Polluters in the Dock

By Desmond Brown
Can Caribbean governments take legal action against other countries that they believe are warming the planet with devastating consequences?

Port Development Brings Progress to Brazil – At a Price

By Mario Osava
“We are victims of progress,”complained Osmar Santos Coelho, known as Santico. His fishing community has disappeared, displaced to make way for a port complex on São Marcos bay, to the west of São Luis, the capital of the state of Maranhão in Brazil’s northeast.

Egypt Gets Muscular Over Nile Dam

By Cam McGrath
When Egypt’s then-president Mohamed Morsi said in June 2013 that “all options” including military intervention, were on the table if Ethiopia continued to develop dams on the Nile River, many dismissed it as posturing. But experts claim Cairo is deadly serious about defending its historic water allotment, and if Ethiopia proceeds with construction of what is set to become Africa’s largest hydroelectric dam, a military strike is not out of the question.

World Bank Clears Congo’s Controversial Dam Project

By Jim Lobe
The World Bank Thursday approved a 73.1-million-dollar grant in support of a controversial giant dam project in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

Carbon-Cutting Initiative May Harm Indigenous Communities

By Bryant Harris
Civil society and advocacy groups are warning that a prominent carbon-reduction initiative, aimed at curbing global emissions, is undermining land tenure rights for indigenous communities, putting their livelihoods at risk.

In Accepting Ethiopia, Transparency Group “Sacrifices Credibility”

By Carey L. Biron
A major international initiative aimed at promoting transparency in the extractives industry is coming under harsh criticism for accepting an application from Ethiopia, despite significant ongoing legal restrictions on the country’s civil society.

OP-ED: Protect Elephants and Gorillas to Sustain Our Forests

By Bradnee Chambers
Of the endangered species listed for protection under the Convention on Migratory Species (CMS) a great many are forest dwellers – West African elephants, gorillas, bats and many birds.  

U.S. Scientists Launch Wake-Up Campaign on Climate Change

By Jim Lobe
In an unusual intervention in policy debates, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) warned Tuesday that the world was “at risk of pushing our climate system toward abrupt, unpredictable, and potentially irreversible changes with highly damaging impacts.”

Georgia Opts for Gold Mining at Protected Historical Site

By Paul Rimple
It turns out the choice between gold and historical preservation is an easy one to make for officials in Georgia: the government is going for gold.

Fight Brews over Wild vs. Hatchery Salmon in U.S. Northwest

By Michelle Tolson
Built in 1909, Bonneville Fish Hatchery is one of the oldest and largest in the Columbia River Basin, located in the U.S. Pacific Northwest.

Renewing Electricity Across Borders

By A. D. McKenzie
Hervé Gouyet knows firsthand the difference electricity can make in the lives of both isolated rural communities and those who have just suffered a natural disaster.

Canadian Govt Targets Environment NGOs

By Paul Weinberg
Job cuts totalling 1,000 announced at Environment Canada’s climate change division this month means there will be even fewer government scientists onboard to monitor the impact of the extraction, development and transportation of crude oil from the carbon-intensive oil sands in Alberta.

Religion and Conservation Do Mix

By Bradnee Chambers
They say religion doesn’t mix well with certain subjects, but in the case of conservation and religion this old rule of thumb doesn’t seem to apply.

Small Argentine Town Becoming Waste Dumping Ground

By Fabiana Frayssinet
While the magnificent samba schools of Brazil were getting ready for the grand carnival in Rio de Janeiro, a modest carnival troupe toured a small Argentine town to draw attention to an urban problem that has brought the central province of Córdoba to the brink of environmental disaster: garbage.

Caribbean to Forge United Front on Elusive Climate Finance

By Peter Richards
Dr. Ralph Gonsalves, the prime minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, says the promises of money by the “biggest polluters in the world” for small island developing states (SIDS) like his to adapt to climate change are a mostly a “mirage".

Heavy Rainfall Washing Out Honey Production

By Desmond Brown
Allan Williams, 32, is an agriculture extension officer in St. Vincent and the Grenadines. But as a trained apiculturist, he has also been involved in beekeeping as a hobby for the past seven years.

Mars Latest to Announce “No Deforestation” Palm Oil Pledge

By Carey L. Biron
The multinational food giant Mars, Inc. unveiled Monday a new set of guidelines aimed at ensuring that its palm oil supply lines are completely traceable and sustainable by next year.

Sun Shines on Forest Women

By Stella Paul
Chintapakka Jambulamma, 34, looks admiringly at a solar dryer. It’s the prized possession of the Advitalli Tribal Women’s Co-operative Society- a collective of women entrepreneurs that she leads.

Kerala Throttling its Golden Goose

By Keya Acharya
Farming, tourism, poor fishing practices along with misdirected policies are muddying the famous backwaters of Kerala, one of India’s best known holiday destinations. Nowhere is this misuse more visible than in and around the 95-km-long Vembanad Lake.

Untimely Rains Hit Cuban Tobacco Harvest

By Ivet González
Near the close of the harvest , local people in the Cuban municipality of San Juan y Martínez, which boasts the finest tobacco plantations in the world, are seeing their hopes of a plentiful season dashed by unexpected winter rains.
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