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Once taboo, population enters climate debateParis (AFP) Nov 30, 2009 For decades, debate over whether to limit global population growth was stifled or ignored, branded as immoral and a return to heartless Malthusian logic. But the potential impact on climate change of a planet teaming with up to ten billion souls has again forced the issue into the open ahead of the December 7-18 UN climate conference in Copenhagen. In a sign of change, the UN Population ... read more |
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Paris (AFP) Dec 1, 2009Quickening ice loss in West Antarctica will likely contribute heavily to a projected sea level rise of up to 1.4 metres (4.5 feet) by 2100, according to a major scientific report released Tuesday. Scientists long held that most of Antarctica's continent-sized ice sheet was highly resistant to global warming, and that the more vulnerable West Antarctic ice block would remain intact for ... more  
Washington (UPI) Nov 30, 2009 It is hard to see how the European Union escapes deadlock in the years ahead. Although most of the media attention in recent weeks has been focused on the two new top jobs of EU president and foreign minister, the biggest change in the EU's institutional system looks likely to be the growing power of the European Parliament. Thanks to the Lisbon Treaty, almost all the policy issues of ... more  
Stockholm (AFP) Nov 30, 2009The Swedish capital Stockholm registered only 17.5 hours of sunshine for the entire month of November, making it the gloomiest November since 2000, meteorologists said Monday. The sun shone on average for only 35 minutes a day during the month, the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI) said. In the past quarter-century, only the years 2000 and 1993 had darker months of ... more |
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Miami (AFP) Nov 30, 2009An unusually mild 2009 Atlantic hurricane season came to an end Monday, having largely spared the Caribbean and US east coast, weather officials said. Forecasters said this year's gentle hurricane season was attributable to the El Nino phenomenon, a weather pattern created by the warming of tropical Pacific Ocean waters. "Activity in 2009 was reduced considerably, due largely to the ... more  
Rio De Janeiro (AFP) Nov 30, 2009A group of Brazilian ranchers is bulldozing a UNESCO reserve inhabited by an indigenous Indian tribe with no prior contact with the outside world, an native rights group said Monday. Survival International said the UNESCO bioreserve in Paraguay's Chaco region is home to the only uncontacted indigenous tribe in South America outside of the Amazon -- the Ayoreo-Totobiegosode. ... more  
Washington (AFP) Nov 30, 2009Influenza infections fell for the fourth week in a row in the United States but the number of flu deaths remained above the epidemic threshold, a government health agency said in a weekly report. During the week of November 15-21, 32 states reported widespread flu activity, down from 43 states the previous week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said in its weekly flu ... more |
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