Global Geopolitics – Global News Blog – Global Politics Online – IPS Friday, September 05, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Stephen Leahy UXBRIDGE, Canada , Sep 5 (IPS) – Soaring temperatures have led to the collapse of several huge ice shelves in the Canadian Arctic over the past few weeks. [...]
SOUTH PACIFIC: Climate Change Refugees Look to Australia, N.Z.
September 1, 2008 By
Global Geopolitics – Global News Blog – IPS Monday, September 01, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Stephen de Tarczynski MELBOURNE, Sep 1 (IPS) – With the apparent effects of global warming already being felt among Pacific island nations, Australia and New Zealand are being urged to do more to prepare [...]
RIGHTS-CAMBODIA: Mass Evictions May Follow Lake Grab
August 29, 2008 By
Global Geopolitics – Global News Blog – IPS Friday, August 29, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Andrew Nette PHNOM PENH, Aug 29 (IPS) – A plan to redevelop Phnom Penh’s largest remaining natural lake into a residential and shopping precinct has ignited a storm of protests and claims that it [...]
ICELAND: Filling Up on Hydrogen
August 28, 2008 By
Global Geopolitics – Global News Blog – IPS Thursday, August 28, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Lowana Veal REYKJAVIK, Aug 28 (IPS) – Earlier this year, the Icelandic whale-watching boat Elding was fitted with a hydrogen-powered generator that fuels its lighting system, electric equipment and navigation machinery. It is the [...]
ENVIRONMENT-ARGENTINA: Scarce Water Threatened by Gold Mine
August 26, 2008 By
Global Geopolitics – Global News Blog – IPS Monday, August 25, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Marcela Valente BUENOS AIRES, Aug 25 (IPS) – For nearly a year and a half, local residents in the northwestern Argentine province of La Rioja have been blocking the road that climbs up to [...]
