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 Stories About: marine life
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Seventy
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Josh Sevin |
24 Nov 1999 |
Counter Culture |
| percent by which global energy use has increased since 1970 percentage of the world's commercially important marine fish stocks that are fully fished, over-exploited, or depleted percentage of the roughly 3,000 plants identified as having cancer-fighting properties that grow in rainforests percentage of irrigation water in developing nations that never reaches crops due to evaporation or runoff percent by which nations have cut their consumption of ozone-depleti ... |
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| Topics: green living, marine life, wildlife (all these topics) |
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The Deep Six
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Donella H. Meadows |
12 Oct 1999 |
Global Citizen |
| Months ago, the United Nations decided to make an event out of the fact that the human population meter would soon click over another billion. They picked an arbitrary date -- October 12 -- and declared it the Day of 6 Billion. What kind of event should this be? A day of repentance? A celebration? In a world of soundbites, what's the right tone here? Six billion, oh woe? Six billion, yippee? Six billion. But who's counting? My guess is that " ... |
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| Topics: green living, health, logging, marine life, population (all these topics) |
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Who Consumes the Most?
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Donella H. Meadows |
09 Aug 1999 |
Global Citizen |
| Singapore, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, United States, Norway. Those are the world's five top nations, in descending order, in -- well, what category would you guess? If you say income per capita, you're close, but no cigar. Since the 1985 oil price crash, the Middle East no longer dominates the list of the world's richest nations. The income leaders in 1998 were Switzerland, Japan, Norway, Denmark, and Singapore. The United States was ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, marine life, placemaking, pollution and waste, rivers and watersheds, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics) |
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A Tale of Two Fisheries
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Donella H. Meadows |
17 May 1999 |
Global Citizen |
| At the beginning of this millennium, the Norse began to fish what is now called the Grand Banks off the coast of Newfoundland. In 1501, the Company of Adventurers to the New Found Lands was chartered in England to make summer expeditions to that rich fishing ground. For the next 500 years, the Grand Banks yielded up vast wealth. In 1981, the fishery brought in 779,000 metric tons of groundfish, mostly cod, worth $705 million. East-coast C ... |
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| Topics: marine life (all these topics) |
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Song for the Bluefin Tuna
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Donella H. Meadows |
26 Apr 1999 |
Global Citizen |
| Carl Safina is a fanatic fisherman. He's especially fanatic about ocean fish, which got him interested in seabirds, which got him into serious biology, which got him infuriated about what he was seeing in the fisheries, which got him to found the Audubon Society's Living Oceans Program. All of which got him to write Song for the Blue Ocean, a gripping book, believe it or not, about fish. Safina takes you out in the boats with commerc ... |
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| Topics: marine life (all these topics) |
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