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AGRICULTURE-ARGENTINA: Desperately Dry

Desperately Dry BUENOS AIRES, Nov 12 (IPS) - The persistent drought affecting some 90 percent of Argentine territory has slain cattle in the hundreds of thousands and caused forest fires, drastic restrictions on water use and local disputes ...

From MARCELA VALENTE, Inter Press Service,  12 Nov 2009

ARGENTINA: 'Grandma, Will You Read to Me?'

ARGENTINA: BUENOS AIRES, Nov 11 (IPS) - "Moving," "rewarding," "therapeutic" are some of the terms used to describe their volunteer work by some of the women taking part in the Storytelling Grandmothers Programme aimed at awakening a love ...

From MARCELA VALENTE, Inter Press Service,  11 Nov 2009
Related Topics: United Nations,  UNESCO

ARGENTINA: Child Benefits Expanded to Unemployed and Informal Workers

ARGENTINA: BUENOS AIRES, Nov 5 (IPS) - A new monthly family allowance of nearly 50 dollars per child that will be paid out as of December to parents who are unemployed or work in the informal economy in Argentina was heralded by experts as ...

From MARCELA VALENTE, Inter Press Service,  5 Nov 2009
Related Topics: U.S. Congress,  Social Security Administration

ARGENTINA: 'Drugs Are Killing the Youngsters We're Feeding'

ARGENTINA: BUENOS AIRES, Nov 2 (IPS) - "You often ask yourself why feed them if some wretch is just going to come along and sell them that rubbish," says Isabel Ruiz, who runs the Las Brujas soup kitchen in Moreno, a poor neighbourhood on ...

From MARCELA VALENTE, Inter Press Service,  2 Nov 2009

CLIMATE CHANGE: Investment in Ecosystems Key to Adaptation

CLIMATE CHANGE: BUENOS AIRES, Oct 30 (IPS) - Investing in the sustainable management of ecosystems and curbing environmental degradation greatly improves the capacity of nations to adapt to climate change, according to a study carried out ...

From MARCELA VALENTE, Inter Press Service,  30 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,  United Nations

CLIMATE CHANGE: Forests Much More Than Carbon Storage

CLIMATE CHANGE: BUENOS AIRES, Oct 28 (Tierramérica) - The world's forests and jungles are much more than carbon storage sites and compensation for greenhouse emissions, experts and activists point out to governments that are negotiating a ...

From MARCELA VALENTE, Inter Press Service,  28 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,  U.S. Congress,  United Nations Environment Programme,  World Bank,  Forest Service

CLIMATE CHANGE: Grassroots Campaign Calls for Bold Steps

CLIMATE CHANGE: BUENOS AIRES, Oct 23 (IPS) - Through nearly 5,000 different actions planned in 170 countries for Saturday, climate change activists will try to raise public awareness on the need for a new global climate treaty which would ...

From MARCELA VALENTE, Inter Press Service,  23 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,  NASA,  Rajendra Pachauri,  James Hansen,  United Nations

CLIMATE CHANGE: How Eco-Friendly Is Natural Gas?

CLIMATE CHANGE: BUENOS AIRES, Oct 22 (IPS) - Natural gas, a non-renewable yet plentiful energy source, is being promoted by the gas industry as part of the solution to climate change. But experts say that its contribution to global warming ...

From MARCELA VALENTE, Inter Press Service,  22 Oct 2009
Related Topics: United Nations

CLIMATE CHANGE: Taking Forests into Account

CLIMATE CHANGE: BUENOS AIRES, Oct 16 (IPS) - What role can forests play in the fight against climate change? What impact do tree plantations have? What effect will the bioenergy craze have on forests? These are some of the questions that ...

From MARCELA VALENTE, Inter Press Service,  16 Oct 2009
Related Topics: United Nations

Media giants and opposition fight new Argentinian media law

While civil society groups celebrated Argentina's new broadcasting law, media giants threatened to fight it with a wave of lawsuits, and opposition lawmakers pledged to revise it after the next Congress convenes in December. In the new legislature, the ...

From MARCELA VALENTE, Reclaim the Media,  13 Oct 2009
Related Topics: U.S. Senate,  U.S. Congress,  Cristina (musician),  United Nations

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