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Clownfish on the Great Barrier Reef. Photo: Jan Derk/public domain

Conservation congress sets ambitious target to protect oceans

Guy Dinmore HONOLULU, Hawaii (IPS) — A major environmental conference of governments and NGOs has called on nations to set aside at least 30 per cent of the world’s oceans…

11 Sep 2016 10:47PM

Environment

Ricardo "Ricky" Adams is the new chair of the Carnival Development Corporation. (IWN photo)

New chairman, but many old faces remain on CDC board

8 Sep 2016 5:44PM

New arts group stages Positive Vibes Festival in Bequia

1 Sep 2016 7:04AM

Richmond Vale Academy to showcase renewable energy options

24 Aug 2016 5:09AM

IRENA conference set to boost off-grid renewable energy development worldwide

5 Aug 2016 10:05AM

A programme supporting emerging women small-scale farmers has been hit hard by the drought. Here a crop of peppers and tomatoes at a school farming scheme at Risenga Primary School, in Giyani, Limpopo province, wilts in the sun. Credit: Desmond Latham/IPS

Newly empowered black farmers ruined by South Africa’s drought

Desmond Latham CAPETOWN (IPS) — Almost half a decade of drought across most of South Africa has led to small towns in crisis and food imports for the first time…

31 Jul 2016 8:37AM

Environment