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World population may hit 11 billion by 2100: study
2014-09-18 15:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: The world population may grow larger than previously estimated, reaching 11 billion people by century's end, according to a UN-led analysis published Thursday. That would mean two billion more people on Earth than expected by 2100, largely due to high birth rates in Africa, said the report in the US journal Science. "The consensus over the past 20 years or so was that world population, which is currently around seven billion, would go up to nine billion and level off or probably decline," said...
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Ehrlich: Ebola, population and evolution whip up a wicked recipe for disaster
2014-09-12 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Daily Climate: We have a problem with "emergent" diseases, ones that are becoming potentially serious to a larger and more vulnerable human population. Ebola and Marburg viruses, because of their high death rates, could become this generation's version of the flu pandemic that swept the globe at the end of World War I. If it does, we have only to blame ourselves: Our degraded environment, our unchecked population growth, our nonchalance at global poverty, hunger and disease and our jet-setting ways. The filoviruses...
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Ozone pollution in India kills crops that could feed starving population
2014-09-10 16:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environmental News Network: In one year, India's ozone pollution damaged millions of tons of the country's major crops, causing losses of more than a billion dollars and destroying enough food to feed tens of millions of people living below the poverty line. These are findings of a new study that looked at the agricultural effects in 2005 of high concentrations of ground-level ozone, a plant-damaging pollutant formed by emissions from vehicles, cooking stoves and other sources. Able to acquire accurate crop production data...
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Vodafone Ireland's 4G network reaches 70% population coverage
2014-09-10 02:00:00| Total Telecom industry news
Operator targets east of country as deployment programme reaches six cities, 267 towns.
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Key Directions to Guide Portlands Population and Employment Growth (PDF)
2014-09-09 23:38:33| PortlandOnline
The goals, policies and infrastructure investments as well as the Urban Design Framework and the Comprehensive Plan Map all reflect seven key directions PDF Document, 1,653kbCategory: Introduction
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