Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Mario Osava RIO BRANCO, Brazil, Oct 22, 2010 (IPS) – Acre, the small Brazilian state that is a symbol of the struggle to preserve the Amazon rainforest, is facing the challenge of ensuring that the development ushered in by two paved roads that will link the state…
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Oct
24
BRAZIL: Environment Meets Development en Route to the Pacific
Oct
22
Hard to Put a Price-tag on Healthy Rivers
Global News Blog – Global Analyst / IPS By Stephen Leahy NAGOYA, Japan, Oct 22, 2010 (IPS) – Damming a river may bring electric power, but it often comes at the price of high-quality food fisheries, experts say. When dams are proposed for power, flood control or irrigation, the often devastating impacts on fisheries in…
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Oct
19
PERU: A Highway Built to Be Flooded
Global News Blog – Global Analyst / IPS PUNO, Peru, Oct 19, 2010 (Tierramérica) – Construction workers are fighting the clock to finish the last stretch of the Southern Inter-Oceanic Highway, in southeastern Peru, apparently unaware that about 100 kilometres of this road connecting to Brazil will be covered by water once the Inambari hydroelectric…
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Oct
13
JAMAICA: Invasive Lionfish Go From Predator to Prey
Global News Blog – Global Analyst / IPS Zadie Neufville* – IPS/IFEJ KINGSTON, Oct 12 (IPS) – Anxious to prevent the collapse of Jamaica’s overexploited marine fisheries, the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries is promoting the consumption of lionfish to control its burgeoning population. At risk officials say, are the nation’s marine biodiversity, its food…
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