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Study warns warming may outstrip Africa’s ability to feed itself 1
Posted 2 weeks, 3 days ago
By mid-century, climate change may have outrun the ability of Africa's farmers to adapt to rising temperatures, threatening the continent's precarious food security, warns a new study.
Give this Gaia break

Gaia proponent Lovelock says it’s time to adapt to inevitable global heating 6
Posted 2 weeks, 4 days ago
What is it with Preeminent Thinkers and intensely bleak public lectures? On Monday night in Seattle, British scientist James Lovelock gave an prediction of the effects of climate change that was even more dire. Efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions are just fine, he said. They just won't amount to much.
Dispatch from Bonn: Population Action International

Population: Off the radar, not off the map 3
Posted 3 weeks, 1 day ago
"The main driving forces of future greenhouse gas trajectories will continue to be demographic change, social and economic development, and the rate and direction of technological change," according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's Special Report on Emissions Scenarios. Two of these drivers - development and technology - have been the focus of a great deal of discussion among the international community as they continue to work toward a new international climate change agreement in Bonn this week. The third, demographic change, has been conspicuously absent.
Dispatch from Bonn: Population Action International

Climate change is sexist 1
Posted 1 month ago
One of the under-reported issues about climate change is its dramatic affect on women. Women make up 70 percent of the world’s poorest people, and are more likely to die in weather-related natural disasters.
Dispatch from Bonn: Population Action International

First impressions from Bonn: climate change hurts the poor 0
Posted 1 month ago
At the opening of the international climate change talks in Bonn, Germany, on Monday, representatives of the industrialized world somewhat sheepishly offered up their countries’ meager progress in slowing the pace of their rampant growth in emissions, while representatives from the developing world did their best to sound the alarm.
Enfant Terrible?

Umbra advises on population 35
Posted 2 months, 3 weeks ago
Stop reproducing and save the planet? If only it were that simple.
Dry Cycle

Population growth, climate change sparking water crisis: U.N. 0
Posted 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Many political conflicts stem from undue population pressure on water and grasslands 12
Posted 4 months, 2 weeks ago
We must strive to meet the U.N.‘s low population projection of 8 billion by 2041 11
Posted 5 months, 2 weeks ago
New book offers a prescription for 21st century suburbia 0
Posted 5 months, 2 weeks ago
Phoenix: What happens when a city built on growth begins to shrink? 3
Posted 5 months, 3 weeks ago
Newsweek considers an Obama baby boom 4
Posted 7 months, 2 weeks ago
California group attempting to stoke anti-immigration sentiment among enviros 3
Posted 8 months, 1 week ago
Population growth and climate: The E.U.-15 vs. the U.S. 4
Posted 8 months, 2 weeks ago
New Scientist on how our economy is killing the earth 3
Posted 8 months, 2 weeks ago
When the Chimps Are Down

Cote d’Ivoire’s West African chimp population drops off dramatically 0
Posted 8 months, 3 weeks ago
Go For the Boobies, Stay ... No, Don't Stay

Overrun by humans, Galapagos Islands crack down 5
Posted 8 months, 4 weeks ago
Minsky on population 9
Posted 9 months, 1 week ago
Are biofuels a core solution? 201
Posted 11 months, 3 weeks ago
Random and wiggy video of the day 0
Posted 11 months, 3 weeks ago