Environment

Ithaca Ecovillage Forges a Path to Sustainable Living

By Coralie Tripier
Ecovillage at Ithaca (EVI), located in the beautiful Finger Lakes region of upstate New York, is an intentional community of 160 people striving for greater sustainability, a better quality of life, and perhaps even a new model for urban planners the world over.

Pacific Coastal Fisheries in Dire Need of Protection

By Catherine Wilson
Coastal fisheries in Papua New Guinea, used primarily by local subsistence fisher folk, will face increasing pressure from climate change, compounding the twin problems of population growth and overfishing.

Shipping Canal Threatens Culture, Ecology, Livelihoods

By Malini Shankar
One hundred and fifty years ago, the British colonial administration in India proposed a shipping canal project that would allow cargo vessels, commercial liners and large ships to cut through the Gulf of Mannar Marine National Park in the Palk Straits between India and Sri Lanka, thereby slashing 424 nautical miles (about 780 kilometres) off the traditional shipping route around Sri Lanka to the Far East.
Dr. Naoko Ishii will be the second woman to lead the Global Environment Facility. - Busani Bafana/IPS

Transforming the Way the Global Environment is Managed

By Busani Bafana and - -
Given the magnitude of the environmental challenges we are facing, incremental change will not be enough, maintains the new head of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) in this interview.

Ecobreves – BRAZIL: Residential Solar Power Is Now Competitive

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Generating solar power for individual residential use is now economically viable for 15 percent of Brazilian households, according to the Energy Research Company (EPE), a government agency.

Ecobreves – HONDURAS: U.S. Donation for the Conservation of La Mosquitia

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has approved a donation of 405,000 dollars for Honduras, aimed at promoting the ecological and sustainable conservation of the tropical rainforest region of La Mosquitia, on the country’s Atlantic coast.

Ecobreves – ARGENTINA: Progress and Delays in Clean-Up of the Riachuelo River

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Four years after the Supreme Court of Argentina ordered the clean-up of the Riachuelo River basin, in the province of Buenos Aires, environmentalists recognize that progress has been made, but there are still numerous challenges pending.

Ecobreves – MEXICO: Communities Protest Planned Location of Thermoelectric Plant

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Residents of 60 communities in three states in southern Mexico are protesting the construction of a thermoelectric power plant that they consider to pose a threat to the environment, their economic livelihoods and their safety.
A makeshift hatchery for leatherback turtles. Volunteers at Grande Riviere saved at least 500 hatchlings from heavy duty machinery used to halt erosion. Credit: Desmond Brown/IPS

After Turtle Hatchlings Destroyed, Trinidad Govt Defends Its Actions

By Desmond Brown
Ordinarily they live for at least half a century. But at least 20,000 leatherback sea turtle hatchlings never made it past their nesting ground at Grand Riviere, a stretch of shoreline along Trinidad's north coast, in what's been described as "an engineering disaster" last weekend.

Local Control Revives Depleted Fisheries

By Stephen Leahy
It takes a village to protect a reef and sustain a local fishery, more than two decades of experience now shows.

Asian Mussel Invasion Largely Ignored by Southern Cone Governments

By Marcela Valente
The governments of most of the countries that share the Río de la Plata basin are doing little or nothing to halt the golden mussel invasion, despite the serious damages and losses it is causing.

Scientists Declare State of Emergency for World’s Coral Reefs

By Stephen Leahy
Coral reef scientists urged local and national governments to take action to save the world's coral reefs and said they'd be "on call 24/7" to assist politicians and officials.
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Norwegian Study Calls for Research on Natural Causes of Climate Change

By Julio Godoy
While there is no doubt that global warming is primarily a consequence of human activities, it is also true that there are natural phenomena contributing to climate change as well.

Thai Farmers Fight ‘Global Warming Fines’

By Prangtip Daorueng
Small farmers in the Baan Pra village of Thailand's southern Trang province have been living in anxiety ever since they were slapped with stiff fines by the government in 2006 and ordered to vacate their ancestral lands for ‘contributing to global warming’.
Courtesy of Sam Koo.

OP-ED: World’s Ailing Oceans Find a New Dawn at Expo 2012

By Samuel Koo
Gazing over the ocean somehow puts a human being at peace with the world. To build a home with a view of the sea is the dream of many. The expanse of water, the beach, and tide magically draw us to them.

Amid Stormy Waters, Caribbean Tacks South

By Peter Richards
The Eurozone crisis and growing influence of countries like China and Brazil are leading the Caribbean to reassess its dependence on traditional trade and aid partners.

Coral Triangle Fights to Save Reefs from Extinction

By Stephen Leahy
The planet's richest region of coral and marine life, which feeds 130 million people, is in trouble.

Ecobreves – HONDURAS: Municipalities Promote Discussion of Draft Mining Law

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The Association of Municipalities of Honduras has launched community discussion of a bill for a new mining law to be tabled in Congress later this year.

Ecobreves – VENEZUELA: Birds in the Classroom

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The Audubon Society of Venezuela and the government of the northern state of Miranda are offering “Birds in the Classroom” workshops to teach dozens of teachers in rural and coastal areas about the importance, care and enjoyment of bird species.

Ecobreves – CHILE: New Environmental Courts Welcomed

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Environmental organizations praised the adoption of a law to create special environmental courts in Chile, which grants the Superintendency of the Environment the power to prosecute environmental violations.

Ecobreves – BRAZIL: Metro Cuts Air Pollution in São Paulo by Three Quarters

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The concentration of air pollutants in São Paulo would be 75 percent greater if it were not for the city’s underground rapid transit system, according to a study by the Federal University of São Paulo.
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