Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Naimul Haq DHAKA, May 18, 2012 (IPS) – Achieving the Millennium Development Goal of providing access to safe drinking water for its 160 million people by 2015 is a tough call for Bangladesh, which is caught between arsenic contaminated groundwater and diarrhoea-causing microbes in its ponds and [...]
INDIA: Industrial Pollution Brings Crocodile Tears
December 7, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Malini Shankar DANDELI, India, Dec 7, 2011 (IPS) – Industrial pollution from a paper manufacturing factory in one of India’s most precious biodiversity hotspots is wreaking havoc on the local ecology, driving up the population of wild crocodiles in the area while simultaneously destroying the creatures’ habitat [...]
The Tale of Two Cleaned Up Asian Cities
November 23, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By Taro Ichikawa IDN-InDepth NewsFeature DALIAN (IDN) – The partner cities of Dalian in Northern China and Kitakyushu in Western Japan have distinguished themselves as dedicated proponents of pollution control and clean environment. Back in the 1960s and 1970s the two cities were severely polluted by heavy industry [...]
Pollution Rising Fast in China’s Seas
June 20, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Mitch Moxley BEIJING, Jun 20, 2011 (IPS) – Rapid economic growth in China’s coastal regions has resulted in serious levels of ocean pollution, damaging marine life and posing a threat to humans. As much as half of China’s offshore areas are considered polluted. Roughly 48,000 square kilometres [...]
Study: Regulating Dangerous Chemicals Does Not Cost Jobs
May 23, 2011 By
The Real News Network May 18, 2011 James Heintz: Under current law, thousands of dangerous industrial chemicals are effectively unregulated More at The Real News
ENVIRONMENT: Military Debris Threaten Oceans
April 14, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Malini Shankar BANGALORE, Apr 14, 2011 (IPS) – Military debris dumped into the world’s oceans are hazardous to coral ecosystems, reefs, fish and marine wildlife, say experts, who also warn – in light of the recent tragedy in Japan – that earthquakes and tsunamis could disturb this [...]
Plastic Particles Circulating Endlessly in World’s Oceans
March 24, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Stephen Leahy HONOLULU, Hawaii, U.S., Mar 24, 2011 (IPS) – That plastic bottle or plastic take-away coffee lid that has 20 minutes of use can spend decades killing countless seabirds, marine animals and fish, experts reported here this week. On remote Pacific island atolls, diligent albatross parents [...]
ENVIRONMENT: Dioxin Levels Soar on Icelandic Farms
February 26, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS, By Lowana Veal REYKJAVIK, Feb 26, 2011 (IPS) – In the northwestern Icelandic town of Isafjordur, milk is causing pandemonium. A local milk marketing board recently tested one farm’s milk for the presence of harmful chemicals. Dioxin, and dioxin-like compounds, were found to be present in amounts higher [...]
Q&A: "The Verdict Against Chevron Is Enforceable, Because It Is Just"
February 23, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Gonzalo Ortiz interviews JUAN PABLO SÁENZ, prosecuting attorney in Chevron case * QUITO, Feb 23, 2011 (Tierramérica) – On Feb. 14, a provincial Ecuadorean court issued the harshest environmental verdict in history against a major oil company, the U.S.-based Chevron. But is there any chance it will be [...]
Tourism Is Poisoning the Mexican Caribbean
February 10, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Stephen Leahy* UXBRIDGE, Canada, Feb 10, 2011 (Tierramérica) – The booming tourist industry along Mexico’s Caribbean coast, particularly in the area of Cancún and the "Riviera Maya," is polluting the world’s largest underwater cave system and harming the world’s second largest coral reef, a new study has [...]
