• Why I’m Shifting to Coke

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  • The TED 2011 Speakers…

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  • Isildur1’s First Two Million

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  • Dabangg Cry-Baby

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  • Munro and Co.

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  • Miyamoto’s Fish

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  • GUTTMACHER INSTITUTE LAUNCHES NEW INTERNATIONAL DATA CENTER

    Updated: 2011-02-28 14:14:22
    Allows Users to Create Customized Tables, Graphs and Maps With the Most Current Data Available from 75 countries and 22 world regions The Guttmacher Institute announces the launch of its new International Data Center. This new tool allows researchers, advocates, policymakers, journalists and others working on reproductive health issues at the international level to build, [...]

  • Country Profiles for Population and Reproductive Health

    Updated: 2011-02-28 14:11:10
    Thanks to Bob Wyman for alerting me to the fact that the article PMC distributed yesterday on UN Population Division projections links to a report from 2004.  NOTE: While the article is recent, the projections it refers to are not! At http://zunia.org/post/country-profiles-for-population-and-reproductive-health/ you can download a very useful UNFPA/PRB publication, Country Profiles for Population and [...]

  • UN’s world population estimates raise questions on sustainability

    Updated: 2011-02-26 14:38:00
    Thanks to Joe Bish for this article.  At http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/301443 you can hear an interview with Hania Zlotnik, head of the UN Population Division, regarding recent population projections out as far as 2300.  You can download the Population Division’s recent report showing assumptions behind various projections via a link in the article below. UN’s world population [...]

  • Bill Ryerson Interviews

    Updated: 2011-02-24 21:07:31
    You can view a half-hour interview with PMC President William Ryerson by Fran Stoddard of Vermont Public Television’s Profile at http://video.vpt.org/video/1750675385.  It was taped on January 7, 2011 and broadcast on January 17 and 23 of 2011o. On January 31, Mr. Ryerson did a five-minute interview on the VT local CBS affiliate.  You can see [...]

  • OPT: We must address resource demand as well as supply

    Updated: 2011-02-23 14:57:30
    NEWS RELEASE Thursday 13 January 2011 – For immediate release We must address resource demand as well as supply The Optimum Population Trust welcomes the recent report by the Institute of Mechanical Engineers “Population: One Planet, Too Many people?” We endorse the Institute’s view that “Population increase is likely to be the defining challenge of [...]

  • Population Explosion: Can the Planet Cope?

    Updated: 2011-02-23 14:52:01
    Thanks to Scott Connolly for this population report by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers.  See http://www.imeche.org/news/archives/11-01-12/Population_Explosion_Can_the_Planet_Cope.aspx World pressured by population growth – but Engineering Development Goals hold the key. NEWS RELEASE Wednesday 12 January 2011 A groundbreaking Population report (Wed 12 January) by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) has revealed the world is hurtling [...]

  • Social change drama on air today

    Updated: 2011-02-22 21:26:55
    The National – Tuesday, February 22, 2011 http://www.thenational.com.pg/?q=node/16777 Listeners of the family show on FM 100 will have more to live, love and laugh about when the two new serial dramas on social change are aired live for the first time tonight and will continue every Tuesday and Thursday at 8.30pm. The series would have [...]

  • Colorado Filmmakers Explore Overpopulation and Women’s Rights

    Updated: 2011-02-22 20:48:16
    By: Brendon Bosworth http://www.newwest.net/topic/article/colorado_filmmakers_explore_overpopulation/C37/L37/ A new documentary that debuted at the Boulder International Film Festival calls overpopulation a looming and underreported issue. Directed and produced by Denver-based Tiroir A Films, “Mother: Caring Our Way Out of the Population Dilemma” confronts what it labels a social, political and religious taboo – rapid population growth – and [...]

  • Ask Umbra on Population

    Updated: 2011-02-22 18:43:35
    Thanks to Jennifer Prediger for a link to the “Ask Umbra” column on Grist (http://www.grist.org/column/ask-umbra).  On that page, you will find this lead into an article on population: Overpopulation is a big theme in Umbra’s latest Book Club selection, Freedom. We’ve got exclusive Grist video of author Jonathan Franzen talking about the issue. Why isn’t [...]

  • Make Birth Control Available at No Cost

    Updated: 2011-02-21 17:28:50
    Make birth control Available at No Cost By Cheryl Gibson. Wednesday, January 19, 2011 This year marks the 50th anniversary of the approval of the birth control pill. Yet for millions of women in this country, the price is just too high, making birth control simply out of reach. Fortunately, a provision in the new [...]

  • POPULATION MATTERS!

    Updated: 2011-02-19 22:10:07
    The News Watch service is suspended for a couple of weeks or so.  Look out for it again on the new Population Matters web site.  Meanwhile, there is lots else to discover there… More: http://populationmatters.org/

  • Is the UK set for a baby boom?

    Updated: 2011-02-17 13:28:12
    The UK has seen a rise in the amount of pregnancy tests being bought and a decline in contraception sales, a new study has found. Supermarket chain Tesco has announced a 2.6% drop in the sale of condoms over the last few months, the first fall in a decade. Demand for home pregnancy tests is [...]

  • Kenya’s population doubles in 25 years

    Updated: 2011-02-17 13:24:33
    Kenya’s population has doubled over the past 25 years, to about 40 million people, and rapid population growth is set to continue. According to recent UN projections, Kenya’s population will grow by around 1 million per year – 3,000 people every day – over the next 40 years and will reach about 85 million by [...]

  • British floods ‘were the result of climate change’

    Updated: 2011-02-17 11:04:08
    The catastrophic floods of autumn 2000, which saw river levels reach 400-year highs and left 10,000 homes underwater across England and Wales, were most likely the result of global warming. It is the first time scientists have been able to plot with any confidence the link between the extreme weather with man-made greenhouse gases. Researchers [...]

  • Let’s take better care of our rare earth elements

    Updated: 2011-02-16 11:57:13
    THE periodic table is a thing of beauty, yet we seem to be quite happy to exhaust parts of it before we’ve fully realised its potential. Helium will probably run out within the next 100 years. Gallium and indium are running low. Phosphorus, too, may soon become an “endangered element”. The latest part of the table [...]

  • “Population neither a silver bullet nor a red herring”

    Updated: 2011-02-16 10:24:57
    “Slower population growth would not solve the climate problem, but it could make a contribution. It is neither a silver bullet nor a red herring,” said Brian o’Neill of the National Center for Atmospheric Research at the annual Society of Environmental Journalists’ conference in Missoula, MT. On Friday, he presented the results of a new [...]

  • China commits to expanding medical aid in Africa

    Updated: 2011-02-16 10:13:37
    Chinese officials vowed to expand medical cooperation with developing countries, including those in Africa, at the second international conference on China-Africa cooperation in health, which was held on Feb. 11. By the end of 2010, China had sent a total of 17,000 medical workers to 48 African countries since the first medical team was sent [...]

  • Oil Decline Rate and Population

    Updated: 2011-02-16 00:09:34
    The rapid increase in the world’s population over the last hundred years is not merely coincident with the rapid increase in oil production. It is the latter that has actually allowed (the word “caused” might be too strong) the former: that is to say, oil has been the main source of energy within industrial society. [...]

  • Philippines pro-RH group gives away condoms on Valentine’s Day

    Updated: 2011-02-16 00:07:44
    Despite the Catholic Church’s opposition to the distribution of condoms, Reproductive Health (RH) advocates from Akbayan Party gave away free condoms at a public market on Valentine’s Day.  Continuing the initiative of the Department of Health (DOH) last year under then Secretary Esperanza Cabral, Akbayan Rep. Kaka Bag-ao and spokesperson Risa Hontiveros distributed free condoms [...]

  • UK’s shifting population placing environment under intense strain

    Updated: 2011-02-16 00:02:39
    UK’s growing population, a rising number of older people and an increase in households with fewer people in them is putting the environment under intense strain, a report warned on Wednesday. Shifts in the demographics of Britain have created “crunch points” in the south-east and other urban centres, with water supplies, air quality and waste [...]

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