Employee-run Companies, Part of the Landscape of an Argentina in Crisis — Global Issues

Employee-run Companies, Part of the Landscape of an Argentina in Crisis — Global Issues

A group of Farmacoop workers stand in the courtyard of their plant in Buenos Aires. Members of the Argentine cooperative proudly say that theirs is the first laboratory in the world to be recovered by its workers. CREDIT: Courtesy of Pedro Pérez/Tiempo Argentino. by Daniel Gutman (buenos aires) Tuesday, May 24,…

Cuban Farmers Fight Land Degradation with Sustainable Management — Global Issues

Cuban Farmers Fight Land Degradation with Sustainable Management — Global Issues

Farmer José Antonio Sosa, known as Ché, stresses the importance of taking into account the direction of the land for planting, and the use of live or dead barriers to prevent rains from washing away the topsoil to lower areas, thus combating soil degradation in Cuba. CREDIT: Jorge Luis Baños/IPS…

Rise of the Super Rich & Fall of the World’s Poor — Global Issues

Rise of the Super Rich & Fall of the World’s Poor — Global Issues

Women in Nigeria collect food vouchers as part of a programme to support families struggling under the COVID-19 lockdown. Credit: WFP/Damilola Onafuwa by Thalif Deen (united nations) Monday, May 23, 2022 Inter Press Service UNITED NATIONS, May 23 (IPS) – Michael Bloomberg, the three-term Mayor of New York city and a…

What India Needs To Do To Achieve Net-Zero Status by 2070 — Global Issues

What India Needs To Do To Achieve Net-Zero Status by 2070 — Global Issues

As India grows and develops, its economic production and energy consumption will increase. | Picture courtesy: Flickr/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Opinion by R R Rashmi (new delhi) Friday, May 20, 2022 Inter Press Service NEW DELHI, May 20 (IPS) – The recent IPCC report that came out in the month of March…

Caring for Water Where Mining Leads to Wealth and Tragedies in Brazil — Global Issues

Caring for Water Where Mining Leads to Wealth and Tragedies in Brazil — Global Issues

A mountainous landscape in the area of the headwaters of the Velhas River, where “barraginhas”, the Portuguese name for holes dug like lunar craters in the hills and slopes, prevent erosion by swallowing a large amount of soil that sediments the upper reaches of the river, in the southeastern Brazilian…

Mining Destroys the Lives of Indigenous People in Venezuela — Global Issues

Mining Destroys the Lives of Indigenous People in Venezuela — Global Issues

Children and adolescents in a Yanomami community in Parima, on the southern border with Brazil, the area where four indigenous people were shot dead and others injured when they confronted military troops last March. CREDIT: Wataniba by Humberto Marquez (caracas) Thursday, May 12, 2022 Inter Press Service CARACAS, May 12 (IPS)…

Opacity Surrounds Fossil Fuels in Mexico — Global Issues

Opacity Surrounds Fossil Fuels in Mexico — Global Issues

Lack of disclosure of contracts, payments and socio-environmental impacts characterize Mexico’s coal industry. The picture shows workers at the Nueva Rosita coal mine in the northern state of Coahuila. CREDIT: Courtesy of Cristóbal Trejo by Emilio Godoy (mexico city) Monday, May 09, 2022 Inter Press Service MEXICO CITY, May 09 (IPS)…