Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Saturday, November 01, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Milagros Salazar* – Tierramérica LIMA, Nov 1 (IPS) – Legislative decree 1090, which modifies Peru’s forest policy, is worrying U.S. trade authorities because it contravenes environmental clauses of the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) that is to [...]
ARGENTINA: Caution and Enthusiasm for Fish Farming
October 25, 2008 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Saturday, October 25, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Marcela Valente* – Tierramérica BUENOS AIRES, Oct 25 (IPS) – Fish farming is expanding in Latin America, fuelled by the demands of a global market that is facing the stagnation of commercial fishing. But some people [...]
LAOS: Questions Rise With Worst Floods in Decades
September 9, 2008 By
Global Geopolitics – Global News Blog – Global Politics Online – IPS Tuesday, September 09, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Ounkeo Souksavanh* VIENTIANE, Sep 9 (IPS) – When local people in Laos talk about floods, they always look back to 1966 — the year the Mekong River burst its banks [...]
CLIMATE CHANGE: Arctic Oil and Gas Rush Alarms Scientists
September 8, 2008 By
Global Geopolitics Net / IPS Monday, September 08, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Stephen Leahy UXBRIDGE, Canada, Sep 8 (IPS) – As greenhouse gas pollution destroys Arctic ecosystems, countries like Canada are spending millions not to halt the destruction but to exploit it. Late last August, Canada announced a 93.7-million-dollar [...]
ENVIRONMENT-BRAZIL: Click Here to Plant a Tree
September 7, 2008 By
Global Geopolitics – Global News Blog – Global Politics Online – IPS Sunday, September 07, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Mario Osava* – Tierramérica RIO DE JANEIRO, Sep 7 (IPS) – It has become fashionable in Latin America to pursue initiatives towards ”zero carbon”, neutralising the climate-changing greenhouse gases produced [...]
