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CAMBODIA: Once ‘Extinct’ Crocodile Claws Its Way Back to Survival
By Robert Carmichael
PHNOM PENH, Nov 20 (IPS) - Siamese crocodiles once ranged far and wide across South-east Asia, from Indonesia to Vietnam, Laos to Thailand. But habitat loss and poaching virtually wiped out the three-metre long animals. Twenty years ago they were classified as effectively extinct in the wild.
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Q&A: Maternal Mortality Rates ‘One of the Saddest Cases’ in Asia
Marwaan Macan-Markar interviews NOELEEN HEYZER, U.N. under-secretary general and head of UNESCAP
BANGKOK, Nov 20 (IPS) - Nearly 15 years after a landmark international conference to advance the rights and freedoms of women, the picture in the Asia-Pacific region is mixed, says a leading women’s rights advocate and senior United Nations official.
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CLIMATE CHANGE-THAILAND: Bangkok: A Future Filled with Floods
By Ron Corben
BANGKOK, Nov 20 (IPS) - Thailand’s capital, dubbed the ‘City of Angels’ and the ‘Venice of the East’, is threatened by long-term flood inundation as rising sea waters triggered by global weather change and monsoonal rains combine.
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CLIMATE CHANGE-URUGUAY: Adaptation Is the Name of the Game
By Raúl Pierri
MONTEVIDEO, Nov 19 (IPS) - Uruguay must start focusing on efforts against global warming, and work in a coordinated manner with its South American neighbours, said one of the scientists consulted for the First Regional Report on Climate Change produced by Tierramérica, which was released Thursday.
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ENERGY-TANZANIA: Charcoal a Dirty Trade-Off
By Jessie Boylan
DAR ES SALAAM, Nov 19 (IPS) - The sun is setting slowly over Dar es Salaam's Tabata Changombe neighbourhood. Ameenah and Skukulu Juma lean against the corrugated iron walls of their makeshift charcoal shop.
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AFRICA: Growing Use of Cellphones for Family Planning
By Susan Anyangu
KAMPALA, Nov 19 (IPS) - The growth of cellphone use, particularly in the developing world, is providing health experts with a new channel of communication to provide family planning information.
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Q&A: Recognise the Benefits of Slowing Population Growth
Susan Anyangu interviews STAN BERNSTEIN, senior policy advisor UNFPA
KAMPALA, Nov 19 (IPS) - Family planning: key to reducing child mortality and improving maternal health; a way to put less strain on the environment; and a smaller population makes the challenge of providing adequate education and health services that little bit easier.
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ENVIRONMENT: Wildfires Spreading as Temperatures Rise
Analysis by Janet Larsen*
WASHINGTON, Nov 19 (IPS) - Future firefighters have their work cut out for them. Perhaps nowhere does this hit home harder than in Australia, where in early 2009 a persistent drought, high winds, and record high temperatures set the stage for the worst wildfire in the country's history.
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DEVELOPMENT: Child Rights Make Headway, But Millions Still Suffering
By Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 19 (IPS) - The international community, which has been hit by a financial meltdown and a global food crisis, claims it is doing its best to protect and safeguard the rights of children worldwide.
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ENERGY: Clean, Green Goo to Power Engines
By Enrique Gili*
SAN DIEGO, California, Nov 19 (IPS/IFEJ) - Stephen Mayfield, the recently appointed director of the University of California at San Diego's Algae Biotechnology lab, is taking on a Texas-sized challenge - giving birth to a nascent alternative energy industry.
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