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...Greenpeace. "They simultaneously acknowledge that global warming is likely to lead to polar bear extinction, while ruling out any action to address that problem." There had been hope that, as the bear was threatened because of global warming, its listing might offer a new way to fight fossil fuel projects in the U.S. Kassie Siegel, director of the Climate, Air and Energy program for the Center for Biological Diversity, points out that under the ESA, any federal agency ruling on something that could impact a listed species needs to examine the effect that project might have on the animal...
...from the World Bank. The international competition encourages the development of low-cost technologies that could potentially provide off-grid lighting to over 250 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa by 2030. Lebone Solutions’ device, which has been in the works for eight months, is a microbial fuel cell-based lighting system that generates a current from the energy produced by metabolizing microbes in soil or manure. The technology produces enough energy to power a cell phone or a radio—little commodities that are especially important in a place with no electricity, said Alexander B. Fabry...
...world. "By mid-century, the best estimates point to a world population of more than 9 billion," Hayden said in a speech at Kansas State University. "Most of that growth will occur in countries least able to sustain it." The sheer increase in population, Hayden argued, could fuel instability and extremism, not to mention worsening climate change and making food and fuel all the more scarce. Population is the essential multiplier for any number of human ills...
...pendulum is shifting back. The sudden spike in both food and fuel prices is raising concerns that we may not be able to grow forever, that even with the best technological innovation, the planet may have limits. It's becoming increasingly clear that if we can't curb carbon emissions in a world of 6.8 billion, it may be impossible to do when there are 9 billion of us. And while population growth has slowed drastically in many countries in Western Europe and in Japan, where women are having fewer and fewer babies, it's still rising in much...
...Irrawady, two nearly week-old bodies, an adult and a child, lay among the storm's detritus of plywood, bamboo and coconut husks. Near the corpses, people went about their lives, tying bamboo poles together to build temporary lodging and jostling for limited supplies of cooking oil and diesel fuel. Prices have at least doubled, a further blow to people who lost all their savings when Nargis swept through...