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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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AUDIO: Is ageing population 'harming economy'?

2013-04-08 11:24:32| BBC News | Business | UK Edition

The US was the latest nation to blame demographic changes for sluggish economic numbers last week, and China has also seen its working age population fall this year.

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United Kingdom: MPs call for ban on 'nerve agent' neonicotinoid pesticides to protect dwindling bee population

2013-04-05 20:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Independent: Nerve agent pesticides should be banned until science has established whether they are to blame for the rate at which bumblebees and other insects are vanishing from the countryside, a committee of MPs has urged. The All Party Environmental Audit Committee has called for a precautionary moratorium that would prevent three types of neonicotinoid pesticide from being used on the plants that attract bees while they are in flower. The Government has opposed any pesticide ban despite pressure...

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Adélie penguin population expands as ice fields recede

2013-04-04 15:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

ScienceDaily: Adélie penguins may actually benefit from warmer global temperatures, the opposite of other polar species, according to a breakthrough study by an international team led by University of Minnesota Polar Geospatial Center researchers. The study provides key information affirming hypothetical projections about the continuing impact of environmental change. Researchers from the United States and New Zealand used a mix of old and new technology studying a combination of aerial photography beginning...

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