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Population boom poses interconnected challenges of energy, food, water
2013-04-08 22:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Mention great challenges in feeding a soaring world population, and thoughts turn to providing a bare subsistence diet for poverty-stricken people in developing countries. But an expert speaking in New Orleans on April 8 at the 245th National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society, described a parallel and often-overlooked challenge. "The global population will rise from 7 billion today to almost 9 billion people by 2040," Ganesh...
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Monster Energy poses monster threat to consumers
2013-03-23 16:14:57| Beverages - Topix.net
On Long Island, Suffolk County passed three new bills "aimed at keeping energy drinks out of the hands of minors, citing health concerns, over objections of beverage industry lobbyists who called it unfair," reported Long Island Press.
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Expansion of City in Western China Poses Environmental, Safety Risks, Critics Say
2013-03-22 18:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: An ambitious plan to expand the western Chinese city of Lanzhou into a regional industrial hub is raising concerns over what critics call lax government oversight of the environmental and safety impacts, including worries that it will siphon huge amounts of water from an already parched region and devastate nearby mountains. Lanzhou, the capital of Gansu Province, is a city of 3.6 million and a gateway to Tibet and the Xinjiang region. It is known as one of the most polluted cities in China, and...
Canada aboriginal movement poses new threat to miners
2013-03-17 13:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: An aboriginal protest movement that's often compared with Occupy Wall Street has the potential to disrupt mining projects across Canada, threatening to undermine the country's coveted reputation for low-risk resource development. Idle No More, a grass-roots movement with little centralized leadership, swept across Canada late last year with the help social media. Protesters blocked roads and rail lines, and staged big rallies in the country's largest cities to press a sweeping human rights and...
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Galaxy S4 leak poses Note-like dummy case
2013-03-11 14:45:52| CNET News.com
This curve-cornered model, which looks like the Galaxy Note 2 except for the flash, is likely to be a dummy casing, disguising the final look of the new phone. [Read more]
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