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When the Chimps Are Down Côte d'Ivoire's West African chimp population drops off dramatically		14 Oct 2008	News
Posted at 2:46 PM on 14 Oct 2008 The population of West African chimpanzees in Côte d'Ivoire has declined 90 percent in the last 18 years, according to a new study published in Current Biology. In the 1960s, the West African country was home to about 100,000 of the apes; in 1989-1990, scientists counted 8,000 to 12,000, which they estimated to be half the remaining population of the species. The most r ...
Topics: deforestation, endangered species, habitat loss, Ivory Coast, news, population, scientific research, wildlife (all these topics)

Go For the Boobies, Stay ... No, Don't Stay Overrun by humans, Galapagos Islands crack down		08 Oct 2008	News
Posted at 12:08 PM on 08 Oct 2008 The Galapagos Islands are totally hot right now. To tourists, the island chain 600 miles off the coast of Ecuador offers stunning biodiversity (blue-footed boobies!) that infamously inspired Charles Darwin to write The Origin of Species. To residents, the tourism-driven economy offers high wages, top-notch public schools, and a dearth of violent crime. But as more and mor ...
Topics: biodiversity, Ecuador, Galapagos Islands, habitat loss, news, population (all these topics)

Minsky on population	David Roberts	25 Sep 2008	Gristmill
Artificial intelligence pioneer Marvin Minsky takes on the fraught subject of population in a rambling, semi-coherent TED talk: (Thanks LL!)
Topics: video, population (all these topics)

Biofuel for the flames Are biofuels a core solution?	Joseph Romm	18 Jul 2008	Gristmill
As part of my ongoing series on core climate solutions (see links below), let's examine biofuels. If we are going to avoid catastrophic climate outcomes, we need some 11 'stabilization wedges' from 2015 to 2040. So if you want to be a core climate solution, you need to be able to generate a large fraction of a wedge in a climate-constrained world. And that is a staggering amount of low-carbon energy. Princeton's Socolow and Pacala describe one wedge of biofuel in ...
Topics: biofuels, climate, climate science, population (all these topics)

Random and wiggy video of the day	David Roberts	16 Jul 2008	Gristmill

Topics: China, education, India, innovation, population, progress, video (all these topics)

Revisiting Malthus	David Roberts	03 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Robert Kaplan: Nevertheless, if Malthus is wrong, then why is it necessary to prove him wrong again and again, every decade and every century? Perhaps because a fear exists that at some fundamental level, Malthus is right. For the great contribution of this estimable man was to bring nature itself into the argument over politics. Indeed, in an era of global warming, Malthus may prove among the most-relevant philosophers of the Enlightenment.
Topics: food, politics, population, progress (all these topics)

Alien nation Anti-immigrant groups hide agenda behind environmental concerns	Kate Sheppard	08 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Via Feministing, it appears a group of anti-immigration organizations are trying to cloak their agenda in environmental concerns. They took out this half-page ad in The New York Times last week (click for larger version): Here's the text: Americans spend a lot of time in their cars. Not because they want to. But because of massive traffic congestion. And almost daily gridlock. For many people, commutes to work and school and daycare can take up to three hours a ...
Topics: advertising, Muckraker, population (all these topics)

Just Kidding China will maintain one-child policy		10 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 5:08 PM on 10 Mar 2008 Recent speculation that China was rethinking its one-child-per-family policy has been refuted by the country's top population official, who says the family planning policy will not be altered for at least another decade. source: The New York Times see also, in Grist: China's population rapidly rising From the Archives Next Up on the Panel ... Solar-panel manufacturers dumping toxic was ...
Topics: China, news, population (all these topics)

Thought leader Gristmill's most persistent troll earns props	JMG	01 Feb 2008	Gristmill
The estimable George Monbiot channels Gristmill's most execrable troll, proving once again the old chestnut about stopped clocks being right twice a day.
Topics: economy, population (all these topics)

Welcome to Earth: Population 0 History Channel explores a world without humans	Sarah van Schagen	22 Jan 2008	Gristmill
What would the earth be like if we finally manage to bring about our own extinction? Find out Wednesday night.
Topics: extinction, population (all these topics)

Where's the Reef? Coral reefs suffer from proximity to humans, says study		09 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 4:26 PM on 09 Jan 2008 The main factor contributing to declines in coral-reef health is proximity to human populations, says new research in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B. A study of 322 reef sites in the Caribbean found that many suffered significant damage from overfishing and agricultural runoff. Author Camilo Mora estimates that reefs in the region provide some $4 billion in econom ...
Topics: habitat loss, news, oceans, population, scientific research (all these topics)

Knock Some Census Into 'Em U.S. population will be 303.15 million at start of 2008		28 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 1:28 PM on 28 Dec 2007 The U.S. population will hit 303.15 million on Jan. 1, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. In 2008, the country will add one person every 13 seconds. My my, and it seems like just over a year ago we were announcing that the country's population had hit the 300 million mark. Where does the time and space go? source: Reuters see also, in Grist: U.S. fertility rate now high enough ...
Topics: news, population, United States (all these topics)

Fertile Ascent U.S. fertility rate now high enough to sustain population		21 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 10:04 AM on 21 Dec 2007 Americans consume far more than their fair share of the world's resources -- and more Americans are on the way. The overall fertility rate in the U.S. increased 2 percent from 2005 to 2006, nudging the average number of babies born per woman to 2.1 -- high enough to sustain a stable population for the first time since 1971. The U.S. is somewhat of an anomaly, as most developed countries hav ...
Topics: news, population, United States (all these topics)

The truth everyone knows, but no one says Is it only OK to talk about limiting population after it's too late?	JMG	18 Dec 2007	Gristmill
Sam Smith, inimitable editor of The Progressive Review, perhaps the world's first progressive blog (if you count its days as a print publication), reports that even he finds it difficult to bring up discussions of population. I have experienced something like what Smith talks about, where even mentioning Bartlett (who has been campaigning against exponential population growth for decades) is enough to get you called nasty names by liberals and "anti-life" by church ...
Topics: economy, population (all these topics)

China Frown China's population rapidly rising		06 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 4:24 PM on 06 Dec 2007 The population of China is projected to grow to a staggering 1.5 billion people by not-so-far-off 2033. And they'll be staggering because they can't breathe the air. source: Reuters From the Archives Hey, Look Over There! U.S., avoiding action at current climate meeting, announces new climate meeting. Energy In Da Hooouuuse! House passes landmark energy bill; Senate up next. Heart a Tax. Sa ...
Topics: China, news, population (all these topics)

U.S. Mayors Climate Conference: Gore V Gore: Population one of the causes of climate change, but not one of the policy solutions	David Roberts	02 Nov 2007	Gristmill
Sue Greenwald, mayor of Davis, Calif., asked a question that becomes inevitable when more than one environmentalist is in the room: does "population control" have any role in the climate movement? People laughed nervously. Gore immediately said, courteously but firmly, that if you go to developing countries using the term "population control," they're going to see that as ... well, his term was "aggressive." I probably would have used s ...
Topics: Al Gore, climate, population (all these topics)

Planet in Peril A two-part CNN documentary begins tonight	Sarah van Schagen	23 Oct 2007	Gristmill
(Images: CNN Worldwide -- All Rights Reserved 2007 ©) Beginning tonight at 9 p.m. ET/PT, CNN will air a two-part documentary that takes viewers to the front lines of environmental change. Hosted by CNN anchor Anderson Cooper (above), chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta, and Animal Planet host/wildlife biologist Jeff Corwin, Planet in Peril will focus on four main issues: climate change, deforestation, species loss, and overpopulation. The four-hour ...
Topics: biodiversity, climate, deforestation, endangered species, population, TV (all these topics)

This blew a few of my circuits	David Roberts	08 Oct 2007	Gristmill
You'll learn a lot in these 20 minutes:
Topics: scientific research, population (all these topics)

Alpha females follow their instincts Competitive birthing is a new fad	biodiversivist	25 Sep 2007	Gristmill
Economists explained to us long ago why fertility rates around the world have fallen. Characteristically, these explanations (part of the demographic transition theory) occurred after the fact. Also characteristically, they'll likely fail to predict future fertility trends. From NPR: The newest status symbol for the nation's most affluent families is fast becoming a big brood of kids. Historically, the country-club set has had the smallest number of kids. But in ...
Topics: parenting, population (all these topics)

The Female of the Species Is More Doubly Than the Male Inuit villagers give birth to twice as many girls as boys		12 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 4:05 PM on 12 Sep 2007 Twice as many girls as boys are being born in Arctic communities across Greenland and northern Russia, where Inuit villagers are known to have high levels of human-made chemicals in their blood. Many babies are being born premature; baby boys tend to be small. Hormone-mimicking chemicals originate in industrialized countries, travel to the Arctic by w ...
Topics: Arctic, Greenland, news, population, Russia, toxics (all these topics)

Oh, Brother China's one-child policy reduces population, helps climate		30 Aug 2007	News
Posted at 3:36 PM on 30 Aug 2007 Perhaps a wee bit sensitive about being vilified for its excessive impact on climate change, China has pointed out that its one-child policy, instituted in the late 1970s, has kept 300 million consumers off of the planet. From the Archives Agribusiness As Usual. Huge organic dairy farm skirted organic rules, agrees to behave. So Long, and Thanks for All the Yu. Maybe ...
Topics: China, climate, climate change mitigation, news, population (all these topics)

Dying For a Change Pollution causes some 40 percent of deaths worldwide, says new research		16 Aug 2007	Daily Grist
Dying For a Change Pollution causes some 40 percent of deaths worldwide, says new research Here's one small reason to join the save-the-environment cause: new research indicates that some 40 percent of deaths worldwide are a direct effect of air, water, and soil pollution. Dirty air contributes to cancer and birth defects; unclean water accounts for 80 percent of all infectious diseases; and contaminated s ...
Topics: air pollution, news, population, water pollution (all these topics)

And baby makes ... 19 Yup, the Duggars do it again	Sarah van Schagen	03 Aug 2007	Gristmill
Remember the Duggar family? Well, they followed through on that promise of more children.
Topics: green living, parenting, population (all these topics)

A drumbeat worth paying attention to Eyes wide shut toward global collapse?	JMG	16 May 2007	Gristmill
Ecological Footprint, Energy Consumption, and the Looming Collapse: This article explores dynamic relations governing population growth, resource depletion, and world economics by means of a few simple modeling and simulation exercises. To this end, we start out by exploring the concept of an ecological footprint, representing the amount of land that a person needs to produce everything that he or she consumes: food, clothing, energy, shelter, the tools that are needed to make ...
Topics: climate, ecological footprint, energy, population (all these topics)

Our main resource shortages: Wisdom and kindness Population is not the short-term problem	Gar Lipow	10 May 2007	Gristmill
Now and again some commentator will claim that we lack to resources to support our population sustainably -- either today or in the near future. But the fact is, even with current technology we have plenty of sustainable resources for our ~7 billion population and for the ~10 billion we expect in the future. What prevents this is not scarcity but folly and cruelty. What are the constraints usually cited? There is soil and sustainable food production. But as I recently d ...
Topics: energy, population, solar thermal power, solar voltaic power, water conflicts (all these topics)

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