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  • No Curfews

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  • Lee and Crystal

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  • Blue butterfly successfully reintroduced in Britain

    Updated: 2010-05-31 11:25:55
    The large blue had vanished from the British countryside by 1979, but a successful reintroduction project over the past 25 years has seen it return to 25 sites, including the National Trust’s Collard Hill near Glastonbury, Somerset where it was brought back in 2000. Last year a record 827 large blue butterflies emerged and flew on [...]

  • A bigger Navy to keep out climate immigration?

    Updated: 2010-05-31 11:18:34
    BRITAIN needs a bigger Navy to stave off mass immigration caused by climate change, green guru James Lovelock claimed yesterday. Starvation could ­follow if Britain’s shores are not protected, he said. Dr Lovelock, 90, said that as the world population rises, ­climate change would trigger mass immigration north. And Britain would be seen as a [...]

  • Presence of world leaders ‘paralysed’ climate summit, UN letter claims

    Updated: 2010-05-31 11:07:23
    A leaked letter from the United Nations‘ climate chief suggests the Copenhagen climate summit failed because the presence of 130 world leaders paralysed decision-making and the Danish presidency backed the US and other western nations over the interests of the poor. The revelations – made as the UN climate talks resume in Bonn tomorrow – [...]

  • Disaster risk reduction key in countering climate change, boosting development - Ban Ki-moon

    Updated: 2010-05-31 11:01:33
    Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today highlighted the importance of disaster risk reduction in countering the challenges of climate change and attaining the ambitious goals of moving developing states out of poverty.  “With the earthquake in Haiti and other disasters, this year began with tragic reminders of the vulnerability of societies and the complexities inherent in any [...]

  • Summertime 2100, and the living isn’t easy

    Updated: 2010-05-30 09:44:32
    The year is 2100. Londoners and their guests need a pastiche of Arcadia in the heart of the capital. Peak summer daily temperatures are nearly seven degrees hotter than they were in 2000, and the city is far more crowded. By mid-afternoon the day’s heat is starting to hang heavy, and will not disperse until [...]

  • BP’s behaviour in the Gulf is appalling. But our thirst for oil is the real issue

    Updated: 2010-05-30 09:30:19
    As this piece is written, act one of the Gulf of Mexico tragedy continues, agonisingly, to unfold. We, the people of the region, keep hoping to leave behind the terrifying explosions and ghastly loss of human life, the dread invoked by black jets billowing endlessly from below and the floating oil spreading over an ever-growing [...]

  • Britain to supply contraceptives to Ugandan women

    Updated: 2010-05-29 15:02:34
    Britain is to provide contraceptives to help avoid unwanted pregnancies in Uganda, International Development Secretary of State Andrew Mitchell has announced. According to the Department for International Development, the contraceptives could prevent 250,000 unwanted pregnancies and 75,000 abortions in the country. Save the Children reports that one in 25 Ugandan women is at risk of [...]

  • Can food security stop terrorism?

    Updated: 2010-05-29 14:27:06
    USAID’s Feed the Future initiative is being touted for its potential to help stabilize failing states and dampen simmering civil conflicts. Speaking at a packed symposium on food security hosted by the Chicago Council last week, USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah called food security “the foundation for peace and opportunity – and therefore a foundation for [...]

  • Britain to export fuel made from household waste

    Updated: 2010-05-29 14:21:08
    The UK faces massive fines if landfill is not reduced over the next few years but recycling rates remain low. In their search for new ways to dispose of household rubbish, councils are to export fuel pellets made from the contents of hundreds of thousands of bins to countries like Holland and Germany. Because the European [...]

  • Needs growing for millions facing hunger in Sahel region, UN agency warns

    Updated: 2010-05-29 14:16:45
    The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today warned of growing needs in the Eastern Sahel region of West Africa, one of the most destitute regions in the world, where some 10 million people are facing extreme hunger due to drought and poor harvests. Thomas Yanga, WFP Regional Director for West Africa, said that despite [...]

  • BLOG: Is Consensus Possible on Birth Control?

    Updated: 2010-05-27 19:54:52
    Nicholas Kristof wrote a column pointing to high desired family size in countries he was visiting in Africa, which you can read here: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/20/opinion Below is his blog on this subject. ———————— BLOG: Is Consensus Possible on Birth Control? Date: Thursday, May 20, 2010 Source: The New York Times (U.S.) Author: NICHOLAS KRISTOF My column today is about the need for [...]

  • Desired Number of Children

    Updated: 2010-05-27 19:52:47
    Thanks to Bob Walker for letting me know about a new paper by Charles Westoff on the Desired Number of Children 2000-2008. You can download the paper at http://www.measuredhs.com/pubs/pub_details.cfm?id=987&srchTp=home This report is a review of reproductive preferences in 60 countries based on data from Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) conducted between 1998 and 2008. Several [...]

  • Mullahs promote birth control in Afghanistan

    Updated: 2010-05-26 14:12:19
    Thanks to Bob Walker for this story. ———————– Some mullahs in Afghanistan are distributing condoms. Others are quoting the Quran to encourage longer breaks between births. Health experts say contraception is starting to catch on in a country with the world’s second highest maternal death rate. Afghanistan has one of the world’s highest fertility rates, averaging more than [...]

  • Defusing the population timebomb

    Updated: 2010-05-25 14:01:40
    Congratulations to Rosamund McDougall for this article sent to members of Mission Valley Rotary Club. ———————— For three days last week 60 international experts met in Abu Dhabi to discuss tactics in the war against global warming. The forum held at the Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research looked at the issues at the centre of [...]

  • EGYPT:Population Growth Overtakes Literacy Rise

    Updated: 2010-05-25 01:58:18
    Thanks to Joe Bish for this article. ————————- “Egypt is one of the most challenging countries for any literacy programme,” a literacy programme administrator at Catholic relief agency CARITAS told IPS. “You can’t afford to step off the pedal for a minute.” One in every four Egyptians is illiterate. Despite free education and long- running literacy programmes, [...]

  • Population Boom

    Updated: 2010-05-25 01:57:15
    Many thanks to Simona Carniato for this article from Al-Ahram Weekly. ————————– For half a century experts have cited population growth as a major obstacle to sustainable development, and overpopulation has been blamed for just about every social and economic ill in the country. On Sunday Mrs Suzanne Mubarak, head of the National Council for Childhood and [...]

  • Saudi Arabia sees 333% population boom over 34 years

    Updated: 2010-05-25 01:55:46
    Thanks to Val Allen for this first article. ————————- The population of Saudi Arabia has more than tripled over the past 34 years, the Al-Hayat daily said on Sunday, quoting a report issued by the country’s state statistics department. The report showed the pace of population growth in Saudi Arabia was one of the highest in the world. [...]

  • Pakistan: Coordinated efforts urged to check population growth

    Updated: 2010-05-24 16:40:41
    Greetings from Pakistan. I am traveling here with my longtime friend, Mehtab Karim, to explore setting up a Population Media Center program. Mehtab and I have known each other since we attended the International Youth Population Conference in Bucharest in 1974, just before the first World Population Conference. He is now the [...]

  • The Problems with “Smart Growth”

    Updated: 2010-05-23 16:35:34
    Greetings from Islamabad. On the plane here, I finished reading the May-June issue of Mother Jones. The article “Tall is Beautiful” (see http://motherjones.com/toc/2010/05) outlines why environmentalists should embrace urban development. Three years ago, Jack Marshall wrote the following paper, which is posted at http://www.stopgrowthasap.org/library-articles.php#library-reading-Smart-Growth, pointing out some of the limitations of “Smart [...]

  • Apocalypse Soon

    Updated: 2010-05-22 19:31:06
    Thanks to Sarah Bergman of the Center for Biological Diversity for this article from the Santa Fe Reporter. See http://www.sfreporter.com/stories/apocalypse_soon/5120/. See below an earlier article from South Africa on the same theme and a recent article on a book and film about collapse. We know from these examples not all journalists shy [...]

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