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  • ‘Meet Once Lover, Who Are Ditched By Each Other’

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  • Wheelbarrow

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  • Vishwa Bandhu Gupta and Cloud Computing

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  • Lady Gaga vs Anna Hazare

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  • Drought: A Creeping Disaster

    Updated: 2011-11-07 14:26:04
    From the NY Times. See: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/17/opinion/sunday/17drought.html?_r=2&partner=rss&emc=rss Opinion Drought: A Creeping Disaster By ALEX PRUD’HOMME Published: July 16, 2011 FLOODS, tornadoes, earthquakes, tsunamis and other geological phenomena have left a trail of destruction during the first half of 2011. But this could be just the start to a remarkable year of bad weather. Next up: drought. [...]

  • Half the world’s working women are without basic legal rights, says UN

    Updated: 2011-11-07 14:23:18
    See: http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/2011/jul/06/un-women-report-access-to-justice UN women report: Access to justice remains a work in progress Flagship report from the new UN agency shows there is a way to go before improvements in the legal position of women are translated into equality and justice for all Date: Wednesday, July 06, 2011 Source: The Guardian (UK) Author: Madeleine Bunting [...]

  • Rising Temperatures Melting Away Global Food Security

    Updated: 2011-11-05 13:03:35
    Thanks to Lester Brown for this article. See: http://www.earth-policy.org/book_bytes/2011/wotech4_ss3 Rising Temperatures Melting Away Global Food Security Earth Policy Release July 6, 2011 Heat waves clearly can destroy crop harvests. The world saw high heat decimate Russian wheat in 2010. Crop ecologists have found that each 1-degree-Celsius rise in temperature above the optimum can reduce grain [...]

  • Seven Billion: What Does it Mean?

    Updated: 2011-11-04 19:27:10
    UN Dispatch – October 31, 2011 By Alanna Shaikh On October 31st, the UN Population Division has predicted the planet will see its 7 billionth person. In advance of that event, UN Dispatch spoke to William Ryerson about what that kind of population growth means. He’s well placed to answer the question. Mr. Ryerson is [...]

  • 7 Billion and Counting: Welcome to a Planet With Population Overload and Resources in Crisis

    Updated: 2011-11-04 19:23:38
    AlterNet – October 29, 2011 By Scott Thill The definition of overpopulation has less to do with raw numbers of people than their relationship with the planet’s sustainable resources. Here’s some freaky news: According to United Nations, Earth’s seventh-billionth person could be born by Halloween, even though “the fire marshal only certified Earth for 6,999,999,” [...]

  • Deforestation reduces rainfall in Africa

    Updated: 2011-11-04 13:29:23
    Thanks to Steve Kurtz for this article. Please see: http://www.nerc.ac.uk/press/releases/2011/23-rainfall.asp Deforestation reduces rainfall in Africa 19 September 2011 Deforestation in the rainforests of West Africa reduces rainfall over the rest of the forest, according to new research published in Geophysical Research Letters. The study shows that changing land use from forest to cropland reduces rainfall [...]

  • Africa Faces Explosive Population Growth

    Updated: 2011-11-03 13:29:18
    Thanks to Joe Bish for this article. Please see: http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=56153 Africa Faces Explosive Population Growth By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS, Jun 20, 2011 (IPS) – The African continent, which is projected to make significant economic gains over the next decade, is in danger of being weighed down by a dramatic explosion in population growth. A [...]

  • A Future of Price Spikes

    Updated: 2011-11-02 13:23:54
    Thanks to Carter Dillard for this Time article.  See: http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,2083276,00.html Thursday, Jul. 14, 2011 A Future of Price Spikes By Michael Schuman Thomas Malthus lived in an era much like today’s – when emerging technologies made anything seem possible. The 19th century was approaching, the Industrial Revolution was steaming along, and in intellectual circles it [...]

  • The Peak Oil Crisis: The German Army Report

    Updated: 2011-11-01 13:28:08
    Thanks to John Coulter for this article from the Falls Church News Press.  See: www.fcnp.com/commentary/national/10158-the-peak-oil-crisis-the-german-army-report.html The Peak Oil Crisis: The German Army Report By Tom Whipple Wednesday, September 21 2011 06:49:43 PM In the last five or six years at least 20 major studies have been published by governmental and non-governmental organizations that either deal [...]

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