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Deforestation accounts for 20% of all current carbon emissions. So unless the world can eliminate emissions from all other sources--cars, power plants, factories, even flatulent cows--it needs to reduce deforestation or risk an environmental catastrophe. That means limiting the expansion of agriculture, a daunting task as the world's population keeps expanding. And saving forests is probably an impossibility so long as vast expanses of cropland are used to grow modest amounts of fuel. The biofuels boom, in short, is one that could haunt the planet for generations--and it's only getting started...
...pollution is pretty bad over there. I think it could really have an effect unless they clean it up. You could cut it with a knife...
...decision, the justices rejected outright Bush's assertion that he could tell state courts what to do. But instead of issuing the final word themselves on whether Texas should retry Medellin, the justices said that was Congress's job. Most treaties, the Court ruled, don't automatically apply domestically unless the full Congress passes a separate law specifying how and when the treaty should be implemented...
...Marty Lederman of Georgetown University, writing on the widely read Scotusblog after the decision was handed down, called the majority opinion by Chief Justice John Roberts "an implausible interpretation" that was "potentially very troubling for construction of treaty obligations going forward." He worried that by letting states ignore treaties unless Congress ordered them to abide by them, the Supreme Court had opened the door for chaos in compliance with all international...
...Atlantic Council of the United States, a think tank, told Congress in January that there is "a loss of momentum in Afghanistan" that could lead to "backsliding" if the initiative is not regained. "Make no mistake," he concluded in a report. "NATO is not winning in Afghanistan. Unless this reality is understood, and action is taken promptly, the future of Afghanistan is bleak...