Global Issues
BlueskyNews headlines for “Biodiversity”
The Cost of Conservation—How Tanzania Is Erasing the Maasai Identity
- Inter Press Service
DAR ES SALAAM, Jun 19 (IPS) - On the vast plains of Tanzania’s Ngorongoro Conservation Area (NCA), the sight of young Maasai men in bright shawls, wielding sticks as they herd cattle, has long symbolized peaceful coexistence with nature. These herders, moving in harmony with zebras and wildebeests, are inseparable from the landscape. But today, that very identity—nurtured for generations—is under siege.
Where the Thunder Dragon Breathes: Bhutan’s Bold Bet on Climate, Culture and Contentment
- Inter Press Service
THIMPU, Bhutan, Jun 18 (IPS) - “I can’t get this anywhere else,” says Tshering Lhamo, a 29-year-old shopkeeper in Thimphu, as she gestures toward the clean Himalayan air outside her thangka shop. She once studied in Kuala Lumpur but came back to Bhutan for the peace—and the purity. Her friend, Kezan Jatsho, who has never left the country, adds, “I cherish the peace here,” even as many of their peers migrate abroad.
The Global Mental Health Crisis Surges Amid $200 Billion Funding Gap
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 18 (IPS) - Although access to mental health and psychosocial support services is considered a fundamental human right by the United Nations (UN), hundreds of millions of people experience limited or inadequate access to mental health and psychosocial support services.
Tanzania Champions Aquatic Foods at UN Ocean Conference in Nice
- Inter Press Service
NICE, France, Jun 17 (IPS) - With less than six harvest seasons left to meet the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the urgency to find transformative solutions to end hunger, protect the oceans, and build climate resilience dominated the ninth panel session at the 2025 United Nations Ocean Conference in Nice, France.
Ocean Protection is a Multi-Billion Dollar Opportunity
- Inter Press Service
BOGOTA, Colombia, Jun 17 (IPS) - The services the ocean provides are the backbone of our collective health, wealth and food security, yet today just 2.7% of the ocean has been assessed and deemed to be effectively protected. In failing to establish adequate safeguards, not only are we condemning communities and ecosystems across the world to decline and collapse, we are also overlooking a significant economic opportunity.
Weaponizing Food Worsens Starvation
- Inter Press Service
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Jun 17 (IPS) - Wars, economic shocks, planetary heating and aid cuts have worsened food crises in recent years, with almost 300 million people now threatened by starvation.
Disaster Risk Reduction: The Insurance That Always Pays Off
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Jun 16 (IPS) - Floods, earthquakes, and droughts are striking the wallets of the world harder than any other time in history. According to the Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction, the cost of disasters is only growing, with annual expenditures exceeding $2.3 trillion; accounting for over 2% of global GDP, and if represented as a nation, it would have the seventh largest GDP.
Make use of all urban waste, a utopia in Brazil?
- Inter Press Service
TIMBO / FLORIANOPOLIS, Brazil, Jun 13 (IPS) - In 2014, Santa Catarina became the first and only state free of open-air garbage dumps in Brazil. Now, 14 of its municipalities are seeking to also free themselves from landfills and make use of nearly all urban solid waste.
France Rallies World Leaders to Seal Ocean Protection Deal at UN Conference in Nice
- Inter Press Service
NICE, France, Jun 13 (IPS) - With the future of the world’s oceans hanging in the balance, global leaders, scientists, and activists gathered in the French Riviera city of Nice this week for the historic UN Ocean Conference, where France declared a new era of high seas governance and marine protection.
Reviving Mangroves at the Edge of Mozambique Channel
- Inter Press Service
NICE, France, Jun 13 (IPS) - Just before dawn, a flotilla of wooden canoes drifts silently through mangrove-tangled channels where roots sprout from the black mud of the lagoon. Here, at the edge between sea and forest, lies a story of restoration.
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