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...most coffee growers, Fair Trade is still slightly more lucrative than the open market. Two years ago, the Germany-based Fairtrade Labelling Organizations International (FLO), which sets worldwide prices and standards, raised the minimum per-pound price of nonorganic coffee 9??, to $1.35 (a dime of which goes to social programs like scholarships for growers' children). That's 15¢ higher than the current market rate. And yet, according to Fair Trade researcher Christopher Bacon of the University of California, Berkeley, the per-pound price that's needed for farmers to rise above subsistence is really more than $2. Farmer advocates...
NEEM is focused on the Eemian stage, a period from about 115,000 to 130,000 years ago, right before the last ice age, when the world was warm--quite warm, about 9??F hotter in Europe than it is today. Given that the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change estimates that temperatures could rise 3.24°F to 7.2°F over the coming century, the Eemian could offer a model for the effect such thermometer swings will have on Greenland's ice. A full climatic record of the Eemian has never been constructed, but over the next...
...concentration of Greenland's air, say, 115,000 years ago. That's the end of the Eemian geologic period, the warm era before the earth's last Ice Age (which ran until about 11,700 years ago). We know the planet was some 3° to 5°C (5° to 9??F) warmer during the Eemian period than it is today, and by analyzing the NEEM ice core, researchers might be able to figure out how the Greenland ice sheet--which contains enough frozen water to raise sea levels by 7 meters if it were all to melt--might react...
...revered for the quality of its output, a global role model for public-service broadcasting, the backbone and guardian of British life--"monolithic and ingrained into our culture," in Greenslade's words--suddenly seem so vulnerable? One source of the BBC's problems can be seen on EastEnders: only 9??million viewers tuned in to the finale of the hostage plotline--far shy of EastEnders' record episode in 1986, when more than 30 million watched nothing more dramatic than the marital breakdown of a pub owner and his barmaid wife...
Everything was turning out exactly how he had always imagined. He was in the best shape of his life, recently married and running the qualifying marathon in a bid to make the U.S. Olympic track team after suffering an injury during the 2004 trials. But 5.5 miles (9??km) into the race, Ryan Shay, one of the nation's top distance runners, collapsed in the middle of Manhattan's Central Park. While the initial autopsy was inconclusive, many suspect that the Notre Dame graduate's untimely death was caused by an enlarged heart--a condition he suffered from since adolescence...