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  • The Cockroach Party of India (Marxist)

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  • New UN Women Chief

    Updated: 2010-09-30 15:11:47
    From the UN’s e-Newsletter. Former Chilean president Bachelet to head new UN Women’s agency United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed former Chilean president Michelle Bachelet to head United Nations Women (UN Women), a newly created entity to oversee all of the world body’s programs aimed at promoting women’s rights and full participation in global [...]

  • World’s rivers in crisis

    Updated: 2010-09-30 07:20:01
    The world’s rivers are in crisis including in North America and Europe where governments have invested trillions of dollars to clean up freshwater supplies, a study showed Wednesday. “Threats to human water security and biological diversity are pandemic,” Charles Vorosmarty of the City University of New York, co-lead author of the [...]

  • Papal Visit: Green NGO Attacks “Inhumane” Contraception Ban

    Updated: 2010-09-29 15:08:59
    From the OPTIMUM POPULATION TRUST NEWS RELEASE For immediate release PAPAL VISIT: GREEN NGO ATTACKS “INHUMANE” CONTRACEPTION BAN The Optimum Population Trust today urged British Catholics and non-Catholics alike to protest strongly to the Pope about the ban on contraception. OPT Chairman Roger Martin said: “The Catholic Church does much good in the world, but [...]

  • Fifth of world’s plants endangered

    Updated: 2010-09-29 09:13:42
    One in five of the world’s 380,000 plant species is threatened with extinction and human activity is doing most of the damage, according to a global study published on Wednesday. Scientists from Britain’s Botanic Gardens at Kew, London’s Natural History Museum and the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), found that more than 22 [...]

  • England’s protected habitats ‘failing wildlife’

    Updated: 2010-09-29 09:05:35
    England’s protected wild areas are too fragmented and fail to offer species long-term security, a review has concluded. The assessment said existing areas were too small, and called for “corridors” to be established to allow wildlife to move from one area to another. It would cost up to £1.1bn each year to address the problem, [...]

  • One of Most Severe Species Extinctions Under Way

    Updated: 2010-09-28 20:59:47
    Thanks to Jenny Goldie of Sustainable Population Australia for this article. —————- The world is facing a mass extinction event that could be greater than that of the dinosaurs, new research shows. Macquarie University palaeobiologist Dr John Alroy used fossils to track the fate of major groups of marine animals throughout the earth’s history. He [...]

  • Breakaway: Video Game Against Violence

    Updated: 2010-09-28 17:59:17
    Channel One News featured our electronic game project, Breakaway. Below is a link to view the news piece. http://www.channelone.com/video/breakaway:-video-game-against-violence/

  • ‘First-time mothers are older’

    Updated: 2010-09-28 09:23:17
    Women are having children later than ever before, as careers, finances and relationship issues disrupt their maternal plans, according to research. A study, completed at the University of Southampton for the Office for National Statistics, has revealed that the average child-bearing age now stands at 29.3 years, which is the highest since [...]

  • A ‘Big Australia’ won’t mean more wealth for its residents

    Updated: 2010-09-27 20:17:24
    Thanks to Jenny Goldie of Sustainable Population Australia for this OpEd from the Canberra Times. —————— Canberra Times July 21, 2010 Opinion, page 11. One of the first actions of our new Prime Minister Julia Gillard was to reject the notion of a ‘big Australia’. She added the word ‘Sustainable’ to the title of the [...]

  • Nurses tell politicians ‘care matters’

    Updated: 2010-09-27 09:18:18
    The Royal College of Nursing has launched its manifesto ahead of next year’s National Assembly elections. Ann Taylor Griffiths outlines the priorities for the next Assembly Government … In addition, 96% of RCN Wales members believe the young need improved access to sexual healthcare. Good sexual health is part of a healthy [...]

  • Declining Infrastructure, Declining Civilization

    Updated: 2010-09-26 19:56:47
    Thanks to Leta Finch for this article. ——————— For the 10th-anniversary issue of The Chronicle Review, we asked scholars and illustrators to answer this question: What will be the defining idea of the coming decade, and why? Henry Petroski The present state of the American infrastructure-roads, bridges, water supply, and the like-has been given an [...]

  • Haitian President launches fervent appeal at UN for an end to age of greed

    Updated: 2010-09-25 11:13:17
    Haitian President René Préval used the podium of the General Assembly today to thank the world for all its aid after January’s devastating earthquake while at the same time calling on it to end the age of greed, dethrone the god of profit and help the poorest countries develop. If, despite important progress, the UN [...]

  • Laos sees big fish as small price to pay for hydropower

    Updated: 2010-09-25 10:56:51
    Photograph: Suthep Kritsanavarin/AFP/Getty Images Despite the risks to the world’s biggest freshwater fish, Laos has rejected calls for a dam moratorium on the lower reaches of the Mekong because it wants cheap power to develop its economy. The south-east Asian nation moved this week to secure regional approval for the first major hydropower plant on its [...]

  • UK: Women having fewer children and later

    Updated: 2010-09-25 10:43:11
    Women are having fewer children and later than planned, forcing the average age of motherhood to a record high. Some are having children almost two years beyond the point they anticipated while an intended family size of at least two children has not, on average, proved a reality. The effective baby gap was last night [...]

  • India: Tribal girls sold in new bride barter scheme

    Updated: 2010-09-25 10:31:03
    AHMEDABAD: Manjula, 31, was bought by a Patel man in Mehsana for Rs 50,000 from her tribal parents when she was 13. After becoming a mother of two daughters and a son, the man kept her girls and threw her out with the son. Manjula is not allowed to even see the girls who became [...]

  • Fossil fuel subsidies are 10 times those of renewables, figures show

    Updated: 2010-09-24 17:42:37
    The Guardian: Despite repeated pledges to phase out fossil fuel subsidies and criticism from some quarters that government support for renewable energy technologies is too generous, global subsidies provided to renewable energy and biofuels are dwarfed by those enjoyed by the fossil fuel industry. That is the conclusion of a major report released late last [...]

  • Will Limited Land, Water, and Energy Control Human Population Numbers?

    Updated: 2010-09-23 20:44:44
    Thanks to David Pimentel for this paper in Human Ecology, published in August 2010, entitled, Will Limited Land, Water, and Energy Control Human Population Numbers in the Future? To download a copy of the paper, visit: https://docs.google.com/fileview

  • The Coming Famine: Seeing a Time (Soon) When We’ll All Be Dieting

    Updated: 2010-09-22 18:40:44
    Thanks to Amy Moon for this article from the New York Times. ——————– Fifty years ago, a billion people were undernourished or starving; the number is about the same today. That’s actually progress, since a billion represented a third of the human race then, and “only” a sixth now. Today we have another worry: roughly [...]

  • Top 50 Birth Control Blogs

    Updated: 2010-09-21 19:43:49
    Thanks to Rachel M. Stevenson, Co-founder of the HealthTech Blog, for letting us know about this article. Population Media Center’s blog, which includes the articles sent to this mailing list, is listed under “Population Issues.” It can be found at http://www.populationmedia.org/pmc-blog/. Birth control blogs run the gamut, from educational blogs for teens to religious blogs [...]

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