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[Rajendra Pachauri raises more eyebrows with raunchy environmental novel - 07 Feb 2010 The Indian head of the UN climate change panel, already under fire over errors in a key 2007 report, is raising eyebrows again after publishing a raunchy novel and accepting help in promoting it from BP and the head of India’s biggest gas producer.... [Mary Hall: The Warrior for the Land: Sebastian Copeland's View of Antarctica - 07 Feb 2010 With the challenges we're facing in the new economy, Mr. Copeland's photographs in Antarctica remind us that the state of the planet and our climate is as important as the changing course of the stock market and the unemployment rates.... [Beware of geoengineering using volcanoes' tricks - 07 Feb 2010 Volcanoes killed 27 per cent of marine genera 94 million years ago – fixing our climate with sulphate aerosols could inflict a similar fate on lakes... [Fears of 'Lehman-style' tsunami as crisis hits Spain and Portugal - 04 Feb 2010 The Greek debt crisis has spread to Spain and Portugal as markets test whether Europe will shore up monetary union.... [Africa, Geology and the March of the Development Technocrats - 04 Feb 2010 'Development', I've discovered, operates as a flagrantly racist discourse in some guises. Scrambling to explain the reasons for Africa's perpetual poverty and apparently incurable misery, laypersons in the West point to Africans' 'savagery' and alleged incapacity for civilisation.... [Nigeria : Tunisia to Help Nigeria Combat Desertification - 03 Feb 2010 Nigeria could learn from the Tunisian experience in fighting off desert encroachment, the Tunisian Ambassador to Nigeria Moncef Gouja has said.Mr Gouja, who visited Media Trust Corporate Headquarters in Abuja yesterday, said the region of Regime Maatong located in the extreme south of Tunisia is a desert with no water but that the huge development and management of oasis in the area over the ...... [Managed wolf populations could restore ecosystems - 02 Feb 2010 Wildlife researchers argue that advances in animal control techniques mean it should be feasible and acceptable to introduce small, managed populations of wolves into a variety of parks and other sites for the purpose of ecosystem restoration. This practice could also increase the public's appreciation of wolves and boost ecotourism.... [Grinding poverty and tectonic volatility make a devastating combination - 17 Jan 2010 Haiti was a humanitarian disaster even before the earthquake hit. It is the poorest country in the western hemisphere; most of its buildings are badly constructed out of tin and cheap concrete with many slums perched on steep, bare hillsides which are particularly prone to landslides. In addition, the population of 9 million has barely recovered from a series of devastating flash floods ......	[Asylum seekers rescued off WA - 06 Feb 2010 An Australian defence ship has been sent to rescue a boat near Christmas Island after it sent out distress calls this afternoon.... [The 10th Delhi Sustainable Development Summit - 05 Feb 2010 The Delhi Sustainable Development Summit is a unique high level global forum organised by TERI for the analysis and debate on some of the most crucial environmental and climate change challenges being faced by humanity at large.... [Grass bred to reduce greenhouse gases - 01 Feb 2010 Breeding grasses to improve nitrogen use efficiency in the rumen could be part of the solution to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, according to Jon Moorby, IBERS.... [Greenpeace plans to build fortress on Heathrow runway site - 28 Jan 2010 Environmental activists have invited some of the UK's leading architects to design an "impenetrable fortress" to be built on land earmarked for the third runway at Heathrow.... [Saad Khan: Islamabad's 50 Years: A Downward Spiral in Urban Planning - 25 Jan 2010 While the civic infrastructure is in shambles and Islamabad is slowly turning into just another third world city, the Capital Development Authority has coined a new phrase: Islamabad, the beautiful....	[Family Connections Vault Women to Political Leadership in Asia - 07 Feb 2010 More women have reached the pinnacle of power in Asia in recent years than in any other part of the world, and their example has shown that in general, women leaders can be hard to tell from men.... [GP practices 'must keep up with population growth' - 07 Feb 2010 DOCTORS are calling on the Scottish Government to create measures to support the development of new GP practices in growing communities.... [G7: no need for IMF to bail out eurozone - 06 Feb 2010 Europe's leading finance ministers have vowed to try to unpick the crisis enveloping Greece, Portugal and Spain without resorting to an International Monetary Fund (IMF) bail-out as their problems dominated talk at yesterday's G7 summit.... [Africa: World Bank Wants Revision of Ties With Africa - 06 Feb 2010 The World Bank has reiterated its desire for a shift in its relations with Africa and other clients in order to make its services more effective, its president Robert Zoellick (pictured) said.... [Geopolitics: A Swiss Afghanistan and Russian NATO - 27 Jan 2010 Once John Chipman, the director general of the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies, had baptized the session on Rethinking Security in the 21st Century an open brainstorm — “where people are allowed to say provocative things” — the floodgates were open....


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