By Nick Mills, Maine Sunday Telegram, USA

 

The self-sustaining Songhai Center is one example of how the West African nation is taking a regional lead in confronting climate change.

Claudia Mazzeo, Agencia Cyta-Instituto Leloir, Argentina

September 10, 2008

“Una parte de la población del mundo, la que está por debajo de la línea de pobreza, no tiene voz y está sufriendo mucho las consecuencias del cambio climático”. “El fenómeno del cambio climático nos da la oportunidad de saber que no basta con producir modificaciones a nivel local. El cambio real requiere de la participación de todos”.

 

By Pius Sawa, Africa Science News Service

June 28, 2008

Livestock has for long been a major source of food for humanity the world over. But with increased debate on climate change, scientists are beginning to weigh the cost-benefit of livestock as it is a major contributor of the harmful greenhouse gas, methane.

 

By Himansu Sekhar Fatesingh, Indian Science Writers Association, India

August 10, 2008

Orissa, a state on the Bay of Bengal coast of India, symbolises modern India’s contradictions. It's rich ecological and social diversity and natural resources are juxtaposed alongside extreme poverty, ignorance, illiteracy and a massively destructive process of industrialization. 

 

By Lina Sagaral Reyes, Mindanao Gold Star Daily, Philippines

July 28, 2008

Even as it had responded in February this year to charges of state racism against an indigenous community in Mindanao, the Philippine government is not yet off the hook.

 

 

By Naftali Mungai, Africa Science News Service, Kenya

July 16, 2008

Climate change is unequivocal and only the die-hard skeptics still believe that it is a myth. This is the scientific consensus globally.

 

By Lina Sagaral Reyes, Mindanao Gold Star Dail, Philippines

July 22, 2008

 

 

Here at the fringes of climate change's "Ground Zero", no mourning bell tolls for the women who are most vulnerable to climate change's impacts, and rightly so, since they can be a key to survival even in a more inhospitable, warming globe.

 

By Lina Sagaral Reyes, Philippine Daily Inquirer

July 22, 2008

COTONOU, BENIN – 'Zemijahns': Beninese commuter motorcyclists hit the global rocky highway

 

As jeepneys are to Manila so are 'zemijahns' or 'moto-taxis' to Cotonou. Zemijahns are two-wheeled Asian-made (mostly Chinese but some are Korean, Japanese and Indian) motorcycles which serve as the common people's conveyances in this tiny West African country, slightly bigger than Luzon island.

 

By Imelda V. Abaño, Business Mirror, Philippines

June 24, 2008

 

 

By Carlos Fioravanti, Pesquisa, Brazil

August 2007

In England, talk about climate change has come down out of the clouds and entered the kitchen, the bedroom and the bathroom, as plans for reducing energy consumption and the emission of gases that are accelerating a rise in the planet’s average temperature.

 

By Atel Deulgaonkar, India

January 14, 2007

Article following Convention On Better Air Quality 2006 in Indonesia

Air pollution continues to pose a significant threat to the environment, quality of life and health of the urban population in Asia. Levels of air pollution in Asian cities regularly exceed World Health Organization recommended guidelines as well as national air quality standards. Many Asian cities have developed some form of air quality management (AQM) system to address the increasing levels of urban air pollution.

 

Possible way out: A mangrove nursery in the Sunderbans.

By Rina Mukherji, India

February 24, 2008

 

Rising sea levels and subsequent loss of land are contributing to increasing the number of environmental refugees in the Sunderbans. Life on the remote inhabited islands of the Indian Sundarbans is far removed from the world of glitzy shopping malls, flyovers, jet-setting middle classes and highflying life that India Shining has come to be exemplified by.