• The Seven Notes—Dhanashree Pandit Rai at TEDx Mumbai

    Updated: 2010-04-30 09:31:43
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  • Nailed to a Wall

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  • Natalie Merchant (and Some Forgotten Poets)

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  • Marriage and Rape

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  • The Real Perils of Human Population Growth

    Updated: 2010-04-30 01:27:26
    Thanks to Steve Kurtz for this article. The graph below, sent to me by Greg Morgan, illustrates the link between population size and CO2 emissions. Population and CO2 (PDF, 24 KB) ———————- About forty years ago, the world population was only 3.5 billion, or about half of the present population of 6.7 billion people. Most of us [...]

  • Sea ice loss driving Arctic warming cycle, scientists confirm

    Updated: 2010-04-29 17:26:07
    The Arctic is locked into a destructive cycle that could see its icy cover rapidly disappear, scientists have confirmed. A new analysis shows that dwindling levels of sea ice are responsible for unusual levels of global warming in the region. The findings reinforce suggestions that a positive feedback between ice loss and temperature rise has [...]

  • Canadians don’t want foreign aid spent on abortions: Harper

    Updated: 2010-04-29 17:26:06
    Prime Minister Stephen Harper said other G8 countries are free to pay for abortions in developing nations, but Canadians want their humanitarian aid dollars to focus on less controversial ways of promoting maternal health. “Canadians want to see their foreign aid money used for things that will help save the lives of women and children [...]

  • Gulf oil spill ‘five times’ larger than estimated

    Updated: 2010-04-29 17:26:05
    Five times more oil a day than previously believed is spewing into the Gulf of Mexico from the blown-out well of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, the US coastguard has said.  Coastguard Rear Admiral Mary Landry said National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) experts now estimate that 5,000 barrels a day of oil are spilling into the [...]

  • Economic, Gender Concerns May Lead To Reversal Of China’s One-Child Policy

    Updated: 2010-04-29 17:26:04
    The Chinese government’s longstanding one-child policy “may be on its way out,” as some demographers predict that the country could face a population decline in about 15 years, the AP/Google News reports. The policy limits most residents to one child, although exceptions are allowed for ethnic minorities or rural families whose first child is a [...]

  • Private water suppliers poised to grow as demand set to surge

    Updated: 2010-04-29 17:26:03
    Private companies are poised for a surge in demand to take over water supplies, despite widespread opposition to privatisation of what is seen as a life-giving public service. Global Water Intelligence analysts expect the water supply market to grow about 20% in the next five years, and demand is especially strong in North Africa, the Middle [...]

  • World Will Completely Miss 2010 Biodiversity Target

    Updated: 2010-04-29 17:26:02
    Species classified by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as “threatened” increased by 2.1 percent in 2009, as 365 species were added to the organization’s Red List of Threatened Species. Only 2 species were removed from the list. Since 1996, a total of 47,677 species of animals, plants, fungi, and protists (a group that includes [...]

  • Shetland population growth among fastest in Scotland

    Updated: 2010-04-29 17:26:01
    Shetland had one of the largest percentage population increases in Scotland last year, while the country as a whole recorded its highest population since 1979. Statistics just released by the General Register of Scotland show the number of people registered in Shetland NHS board area as 22,210 in June last year. This figure, comprising 11,214 men and [...]

  • The growth of the human population is bad

    Updated: 2010-04-28 21:02:50
    Thanks to Jack Martin for this article from the San Diego News. ———————— Growth is bad. You rarely hear that statement in any context in America these days. But it is true. Americans have been brainwashed into believing that all growth, unless it pertains to cancer, is unquestionably a good thing. But let’s think about that. Would [...]

  • William Ryerson, President of Population Media Center, Awarded the Nafis Sadik Prize for Courage

    Updated: 2010-04-28 21:02:49
    Global Health Council August 10, 2006 On June 13, 2006, William Ryerson, President of the Population Media Center (PMC), received the Nafis Sadik Prize for Courage at the Annual General Meeting of the Rotarian Action Group on Population and Development in Copenhagen, Denmark. The award recognized Ryerson’s 35 year dedication to the field of reproductive health. The [...]

  • PMC Featured in German Rotary Magazine

    Updated: 2010-04-28 21:02:48
    Population Media Center was featured in the April 2010 issue of the German Rotary Magazine (see page 8 in the PDF below) German Rotary Magazine April 2010 ShareThis

  • World Will Completely Miss 2010 Biodiversity Target

    Updated: 2010-04-28 21:02:47
    Species classified by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as “threatened” increased by 2.1 percent in 2009, as 365 species were added to the organization’s Red List of Threatened Species. Only 2 species were removed from the list. Since 1996, a total of 47,677 species of animals, plants, fungi, and protists (a group [...]

  • Arctic explorers get nasty surprise: rain

    Updated: 2010-04-28 13:02:19
    In what looks to be another sign the Arctic is heating up quickly, British explorers in Canada’s Far North reported on Tuesday that they had been hit by a three-minute rain shower over the weekend. The rain fell on the team’s ice base off Ellef Rignes island, about 3,900 km (2,420 miles) north of the Canadian [...]

  • Rivers in England and Wales face drying out because of climate change

    Updated: 2010-04-28 13:02:18
    One in three rivers is in danger of drying out due to demand for drinking water, including some of the country’s most famous stretches of salmon fishing, according to conservationists.  The Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF) fears that the growing population will mean more water from Britain’s rivers is needed for washing and drinking in [...]

  • Conflicting reports over food requirements in UK

    Updated: 2010-04-28 13:02:17
    Population growth and income growth will drive the world meat market to almost 40% growth in the next 10 to 20 years, concluded Dirk Jan Kennes of Rabobank at the opening ceremony of VIV Europe in Utrecht, the Netherlands. The biggest growth as part of the diet is to be expected in poultry, the pork share [...]

  • Drama on MDG to be aired soon

    Updated: 2010-04-26 20:22:54
    The following article highlighting PMC’s new drama in Papua New Guinea, appeared in The National. ———————– Drama on MDG to be aired soon By Bosorina Robby A US-based non-governmental organisation, in co-operation with the United Nations, will soon be airing radio serial dramas dealing with the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) 2015 in an effort to accelerate the achievement [...]

  • Hunts Claim Hundreds of Wolves

    Updated: 2010-04-26 20:22:52
    The following story from Natural Resources Defense Council is a follow up to the report a year ago of the Interior Department’s delisting of wolves as endangered in certain states. ————————- For wolves in the northern Rockies, it was a year of devastation unparalleled in modern history: nearly one-third of the entire population in the region killed, [...]

  • Humans Driving Extinction Faster Than Species Can Evolve, Say Experts

    Updated: 2010-04-26 20:22:51
    Thanks to Scott Connolly for this article. ———————— For the first time since the dinosaurs disappeared, humans are driving animals and plants to extinction faster than new species can evolve, one of the world’s experts on biodiversity has warned. Conservation experts have already signalled that the world is in the grip of the “sixth great extinction” of [...]

  • One in Five Mammals Threatened With Extinction

    Updated: 2010-04-26 20:22:50
    Thanks to Mary De Lavalette for this article. ————————- A fifth of the world’s known mammals, a third of amphibians and reptiles and more than two thirds of plants are threatened with extinction, according to the latest “Red List” of endangered species. Some gorilla species are close to extinction, warns the International Union for Conservation of Nature. Of the [...]

  • I Believe: ‘We are making it harder and harder for other species to exist’

    Updated: 2010-04-26 20:22:49
    Congratulations to George Plumb for this editorial in the Burlington Free Press. —————————– Almost all of the expressed environmental concern these days is about climate change . However there is another environmental crisis happening that could be just as important, and perhaps even more important, and that is the loss of biodiversity. The earth is now going through [...]

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