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  • Ellen MacArthur: ‘I can’t live with the sea any more’

    Updated: 2010-08-31 12:08:27
    The round the world record holder explains why she has turned her back on the sea to crusade for the planet. Article: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/sailing/7966301/Ellen-MacArthur-I-cant-live-with-the-sea-any-more.html which concludes: Though she loves children – the Ellen MacArthur Trust is dedicated to helping those with cancer – she says it is “not in her mind” to start a family of her own. [...]

  • How do parking lots affect the environment?

    Updated: 2010-08-31 11:56:03
    Automobiles are parked for roughly 95% of their lifetimes yet we know little about how parking spaces affect the environment. Using five different approaches, researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, US, determined that there are between 105 million and 2 billion parking spaces in the US for roughly 300 million vehicles. The energy consumed [...]

  • Afghanistan eyes wheat price amid import needs

    Updated: 2010-08-31 11:52:29
    Afghan authorities are keeping a close eye on world wheat prices as they seek to boost strategic stocks ahead of winter and ensure that demand is met as some traditional suppliers halt exports. Afghanistan is among the most vulnerable countries in the world for food supply, according to the Food Security Risk Index 2010, compiled [...]

  • New South Wales, Australia: Teenage baby boom sparks call for better sex education

    Updated: 2010-08-31 11:40:26
    The number of teenage mothers [in Australia] has jumped after decades of steady decline and NSW has had the most significant increase. The teen fertility rate in NSW rose 15 per cent from 2007 to 2008, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics. Nationally, the number of teenagers giving birth rose 10 per cent, from [...]

  • Beijing asks parents to register second child

    Updated: 2010-08-31 11:35:29
    Beijing has urged parents to register the birth of their second child before Nov 1 — if they don’t, they will be liable to pay fines, a media report said Monday. China’s family planning policies encourages urban residents to limit their family size to one child. Families who register their second child now will face [...]

  • Qatari women are delaying getting married and having fewer children

    Updated: 2010-08-31 11:30:19
    Women in Qatar are delaying getting married and having fewer children, as education and career now play a bigger role in their everyday lives. The recently published Millennium Development Goals in Qatar 2010 (MDG Qatar 2010) report shows that the fertility rate of Qatari women has decreased from 5.7 children per woman in 1999, to [...]

  • Hazards of adolescent pregnancy

    Updated: 2010-08-31 11:26:20
    From the Malaysia Star: Pregnancy in adolescence, i.e. in a girl aged between 10 and 19 years, is increasingly becoming a problem in many developed and developing countries. This phenomenon has been influenced by the decreasing age of the first period (menarche) and schooling. The former has been decreasing at a rate of about two to three [...]

  • Why failure of climate summit would herald global catastrophe: 3.5°

    Updated: 2010-08-31 10:30:59
    Coastal megacities like Shanghai, and low-lying regions of countries such as Pakistan (above) are most at risk from rising sea levels  Photo: AP The world is heading for the next major climate change conference in Cancun later this year on course for global warming of up to 3.5C in the coming century, a series of scientific [...]

  • Your Letters Needed in Response to Newsweek’s The Parent Trap

    Updated: 2010-08-30 20:18:42
    Thanks to Joel Marx for alerting me to Newsweek’s article by Robert J. Samuelson, called The Parent Trap, urging the U.S. to make it easier for Americans to have more babies. ———————- Among the government’s most interesting reports is one that estimates what parents spend on their children. Not surprisingly, the costs are steep. For [...]

  • Quick Reference Guide to Family Planning Research

    Updated: 2010-08-30 16:10:23
    From the Global Health Council. See http://www.globalhealth.org/sources/view.php3?id=1755&type=newsletter. You can get a copy of the guide at http://www.fhi.org/en/RH/Programs/RtoP/FP_Research_Guide/index.htm Quick Reference Guide to Family Planning Research The Research Utilization team at FHI announces the completion of the 2010 Quick Reference Guide (QRG) to Family Planning Research. The QRG, a snapshot of the most-up-to-date findings on a range [...]

  • A world too full of people

    Updated: 2010-08-30 11:07:41
      Leucadia Quispe, a 60-year-old mother-of-eight, was born and raised in Botijlaca, a settlement that sits in the foothills of the Chacaltaya and Huayna Potosí mountains in Bolivia. High above, the Chacaltaya glacier is retreating at an unexpected pace: three times as fast as predicted ten years ago. It will be gone in a generation. Seven out [...]

  • Japan plans to bind large firms to CO2 caps

    Updated: 2010-08-30 10:52:46
    Japan’s compulsory emissions trading scheme is set to start in April 2013 and cover large CO2 emitting companies, a draft of the government’s proposals showed on Monday, but several issues are still open to debate. The draft, obtained by Reuters, will be presented on Tuesday to an expert committee at the Environment Ministry, which aims [...]

  • FDA approves ‘morning-after pill’ effective 5 days after sex

    Updated: 2010-08-29 16:05:34
    The Food and Drug Administration approved a controversial new form of emergency contraception Friday that can prevent a pregnancy as many as five days after sex. The decision to allow the sale of the pill, which will be marketed under the brand name “ella,” was welcomed by family-planning proponents as a crucial new option to [...]

  • The Missing Ingredient in the Tamil Refugee Debate

    Updated: 2010-08-28 15:57:00
    Thanks to Tim Murray for this article. ——————– The Missing Ingredient in the Tamil Refugee Debate 490 good reasons are advanced to challenge the acceptance of Tamil boat-people but not one of them is ecological Have you noticed? As could be predicated, the vast subterranean disgust and frustration with Canada’s dysfunctional refugee determination system has [...]

  • BBC film on Population produced by David Attenborough

    Updated: 2010-08-28 15:55:24
    Thanks to Ed Barry for this link to a BBC film on population produced by David Attenborough. It gives a good explanation of population issues to the general public. You can find it at Eric Rimmer’s website at www.ericrimmer.com. It’s an unofficial copy, so please don’t broadcast it.

  • The Prince of Wales delivers the BBC Richard Dimbleby Lecture

    Updated: 2010-08-27 15:31:51
    If you missed Prince Charles’ July 8, 2009 talk on population and the need to work in harmony with nature, you can watch it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4l0fES43nc. Many thanks to Eric Rimmer for this link.

  • Global population study launched by Royal Society

    Updated: 2010-08-27 15:30:04
    Thanks to SD Shantinath for this BBC article. ———————– The UK’s Royal Society is launching a major study into human population growth and how it may affect social and economic development in coming decades. The world’s population has risen from two billion in 1930 to 6.8 billion now, with nine billion projected by 2050. The [...]

  • Steve Connor: We need a global debate on population

    Updated: 2010-08-27 15:27:25
    Clearly, the population debate in the UK is heating up. Thanks to Mike Nickerson for this article from The Independent. —————– A growing number of scientists are going where politicians fear to tread by calling for a wider public debate on the sensitive issue of the global human population, which is set to rise from [...]

  • How many Brits is too many?

    Updated: 2010-08-27 15:26:08
    Thanks to Sally Mattison for this article. —————— Environmentalists in Britain and elsewhere have sometimes been reluctant to talk about population in recent years. But with the U.K. Office of National Statistics projecting a 9 million rise in the country’s population to 70 million by 2030, it’s increasingly difficult to get away from the old [...]

  • Prince of Wales calls for population control in developing world

    Updated: 2010-08-27 15:24:55
    Thanks to Bob Walker for this article from The Telegraph. ———————— He said more needs to be done because of the “monumental” problems that face the environment as population numbers “rocket” and traditional societies become more consumerist. There needed to be more “honesty” about the fact the “cultural” pressures keep the global birth rate high. [...]

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