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  • Grab-and-Run Granny

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  • The Giant Panda is Back

    Updated: 2010-06-30 23:46:22
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  • ‘Dalit set afire over phone’

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  • Learning From Soap Operas

    Updated: 2010-06-30 16:06:57
    This New York Times OpEd covered PMC-Ethiopia’s soap operas, Yeken Kignit and Dhimbibba. ————————– A friend of mine, a physician who works the longest hours of anybody I know, makes only one exception from her demanding schedule in New York. Once a week, she returns home early to watch a new episode of her favorite soap opera. [...]

  • How Europe’s agriculture can boost biodiversity

    Updated: 2010-06-30 09:49:05
    Intensive farming has long been a major cause of biodiversity decline in Europe. The European Environment Agency’s (EEA) new short assessment examines Europe’s efforts to strike a balance between producing sufficient food and maintaining agro-ecosystems that are rich in biodiversity above and below ground.  Europe’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) plays a key role in halting biodiversity [...]

  • Balancing the weights of poverty and population

    Updated: 2010-06-30 09:34:11
    Image: Slapbcn/Flickr The 21st century began on an inspiring note: The United Nations set a goal of reducing the share of the world’s population living in extreme poverty by half by 2015. By early 2007 the world looked to be on track to meet this goal, but as the economic crisis unfolds and the outlook darkens, [...]

  • Mammoth iceberg could alter ocean circulation: study

    Updated: 2010-06-29 18:09:35
    Thanks to Edmund Levering for this chilling news. ———————— An iceberg the size of Luxembourg knocked loose from the Antarctic continent earlier this month could disrupt the ocean currents driving weather patterns around the globe, researchers said Thursday. While the impact would not be felt for decades or longer, a slowdown in the production of colder, dense water [...]

  • The other oil spill

    Updated: 2010-06-29 12:07:10
    Early on April 21st 2008, Greenpeace activists dressed as orang-utans stormed Unilever’s headquarters in London. Similar raids took place at the multinational’s facilities on Merseyside, in Rome and in Rotterdam. Furry protesters scaled buildings, occupied production lines and unfurled banners. Many read: “Unilever: Don’t Destroy the Forests”. Dove, one of the company’s best-known brands, was [...]

  • “China right to link population to climate”

    Updated: 2010-06-29 11:47:38
    All but the crankiest conspiracy theorists now accept that the world is warming and humans are causing it. But the baffling, illogical and scary thing is that political leaders seem blind to a critical element of the human causation – the more humans we have the more carbon emissions we will have. A search of [...]

  • Paris looks for power from turbines beneath the Seine

    Updated: 2010-06-29 11:44:01
    Photograph: Martin Bureau/AFP/Getty Images The river Seine, the historical “sacred river” running through Paris, inspired Monet, Matisse and even the British painter Turner, who sat on its banks to capture the scenery. Now the landscape is to undergo a subtle change, with a plan to install eight turbines underneath the city’s celebrated bridges to raise energy [...]

  • Ghana: Family Planning Devices Run Short

    Updated: 2010-06-29 11:22:42
    The most preferred family planning (FP) method in the Upper East Region, Depo Provera, has run short forcing some clients to resort to other methods while others go without it, waiting for new supply. The clients, who use the Depo Provera method that is given through injection, prefer it to the others because it lasts [...]

  • Increasing numbers consider abortion ‘because of recession’

    Updated: 2010-06-29 11:19:15
    Women in increasing numbers are considering terminating pregnancies as a consequence of the recession, according to Dublin’s Well Woman Centre. Chief executive Alison Begas said yesterday that up to one in five of the 2,000 of so women who presented to Well Woman for pregnancy counselling last year cited financial concerns as the main reason why [...]

  • Wrangling Continues over New U.N. Women’s Entity

    Updated: 2010-06-29 11:15:33
    Ahead of a week-long meeting on gender equality starting Monday at the United Nations, women’s rights activists have been pushing for concrete progress on a pledge made last September by the world body to create a new, better-funded U.N. agency for women. After the Gender Equality Reform (GEAR) Campaign, a leading advocate of the new [...]

  • Reduction in funds for maternal and infant health criticised

    Updated: 2010-06-29 11:11:36
    Canada announced on Friday a multibillion-dollar initiative to combat infant mortality and improve maternal health globally, but the aid package was far smaller than expected, undercut by a new drive toward austerity that reduced the contributions of wealthy nations. Aid groups promptly slammed the $7.3 billion effort as insufficient, having expected the world’s richest nations [...]

  • World on course for catastrophic 6° rise, reveal scientists

    Updated: 2010-06-28 14:54:08
    Thanks to Andrew Glikson for this article from the Independent. ———————– The world is now firmly on course for the worst-case scenario in terms of climate change, with average global temperatures rising by up to 6C by the end of the century, leading scientists said yesterday. Such a rise – which would be much higher nearer the [...]

  • Carbon Dioxide May Have Greater Effect on Temperature

    Updated: 2010-06-28 14:52:58
    The increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide taking place today could have a significantly larger effect on global temperatures than previously thought, according to a new study led by Yale University geologists. The team demonstrated that only a relatively small rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide was associated with a period of substantial warming between three to [...]

  • Studies of Women`s Attitudes to `Social Egg Freezing` Find That Young Professionals Put Career Ahead of Motherhood or Are Still Waiting for Mr Right

    Updated: 2010-06-28 11:41:00
    Women of different ages differ in their reasons for wishing to undergo egg freezing, show two studies presented to the 26th annual meeting of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology today (Monday). A large number of female university students would be prepared to undertake egg freezing in an attempt to combine career success [...]

  • Overpopulation and Climate Change

    Updated: 2010-06-27 14:50:14
    Thanks to Joe Bish for sending me this editorial by Arthur Westing of Vermont. ————————- With the continuing failure of governments to reach agreements on combating climate change, the outlook for both humans and nature remains bleak. And nowhere is the failure more conspicuous than in the avoidance of the subject of population growth. Population is a [...]

  • China right to link population to climate

    Updated: 2010-06-27 14:49:01
    Many thanks to Mark O’Connor for this article. ———————- ALL but the crankiest conspiracy theorists now accept that the world is warming and humans are causing it. But the baffling, illogical and scary thing is that political leaders seem blind to a critical element of the human causation – the more humans we have the more carbon [...]

  • Chinese exec calls for limiting population, consumption

    Updated: 2010-06-26 14:42:12
    Thanks to Doug La Follette for this article. ———————– BUSINESS: Chinese exec calls for limiting population, consumption (10/23/2009) Debra Kahn, E&E reporter SAN FRANCISCO — A leading Chinese industrialist called yesterday for worldwide population constraints and an end to government-sponsored consumerism as solutions to climate change and other environmental issues. Speaking at a conference put on by Business for Social [...]

  • There really is only one kind of sustainability

    Updated: 2010-06-25 16:26:32
    Thanks to Tim Murray for this essay. ———————– Despite our best efforts, there are persistent and common misunderstandings about the rudiments of overshoot and sustainability. Four come to mind: 1. The exponential function. Albert Bartlett is right about that. I can’t get people alarmed by lets say, a 2-3% annual growth rate. Like the magic of compound interest, [...]

  • Goldilocks and the Three Fuels:

    Updated: 2010-06-23 19:24:45
    Where are oil prices headed in 2010? Forecasts for the end of the year are all over the map, from over $100 a barrel to under $50. The difference hinges mostly on assumptions about whether the economy will recover or relapse. But it may be that price volatility has become an inherent feature of the [...]

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