Global News Blog / IPSFriday May 9, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Mario Osava RIO DE JANEIRO, May 9 (IPS) – Recent efforts by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to clearly mark the difference between Brazilian ethanol and the agrofuels produced by the United States are an admission that [...]
CLIMATE CHANGE: Firms Coming Clean on Carbon
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Global News Blog / IPS Wednesday, April 30, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. By Stephen Leahy JOHANNESBURG, Apr 30 (IPS) – Thousands of companies supplying some of the world’s largest corporations know climate regulations are coming and are agreeing to measure their emissions of climate-altering greenhouse gases. ”Companies, including those [...]
ARGENTINA: Smoke Was a Long Time Coming
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Global News Blog / IPS Tuesday, April 29, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. By Marcela Valente BUENOS AIRES, Apr 29 (IPS) – ”The work has been relentless. We finish putting out one big fire and another one breaks out in the same area.” This remark by a firefighter in Argentina, [...]
DEVELOPMENT-BRAZIL: Activists Opposed to Rebuilding Amazon Highways
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Global News Blog / IPS Monday, April 28, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. By Mario Osava RIO DE JANEIRO, Apr 28 (IPS) – Nearly four decades after they were first planned, three highways through the jungles and swamps of Brazil’s Amazon region are being rebuilt. Neglected in the past when [...]
CHILE: Environmentalists Withdraw Backing from Government
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Global News Blog / IPS April 25, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Daniela Estrada SANTIAGO, Apr 25 (IPS) – Twenty-three environmental groups in Chile withdrew their support from President Michelle Bachelet, complaining that she had failed to live up to an agreement they had signed with her during her election [...]
HEALTH-DRC: Water Everywhere, But Is It Safe To Drink?
April 24, 2008 By
HEALTH-DRC: Water Everywhere, But Is It Safe To Drink? Global News Blog / IPS April 24, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Michael Deibert KINSHASA, Apr 24 (IPS) – The rain falls in battering sheets, rolling eastward along the Congo River through Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). [...]
ENVIRONMENT-US: Poll Finds Deep Concern Among Hispanics
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Global News Blog / IPS April 23, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Jim Lobe WASHINGTON, Apr 23 (IPS) – Hispanic voters in the United States show a high degree of awareness and concern about environmental issues, particularly global warming, according to an unprecedented national survey on Latino opinion and the [...]
