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[Antarctica Falling Apart' Scientists Assess News Of Iceberg Breakoffs - 08 Mar 2010 Recent news of mammoth icebergs the size of small U.S. states breaking off Antarctica may sound dire. But those events mostly represent business as usual at the world's southernmost continent, scientists say.... [Kenya: Financing Climate-Change Fight - 07 Mar 2010 The head of the International Monetary Fund proposed a plan for the world’s governments to pool together to raise money needed to adapt to climate change.... [Claud Wright: Senior civil servant who was also a leading expert in geology, palaeontology and archaeology - 07 Mar 2010 In the War Office there were a lot of old fossils. But the one who was the real fossil was Claud William Wright. He was not only a senior administrative civil servant, and when transferred to the Ministry of Education the first Permanent Secretary, in effect, to Lord Eccles' Ministry of the Arts under Margaret Thatcher, but also from an early age, a leading geologist, palaeontologist and ...... [Snowball Earth: New evidence hints at global glaciation 716.5 million years ago - 04 Mar 2010 Geologists have found evidence that sea ice extended to the equator 716.5 million years ago, bringing new precision to a "snowball Earth" event long suspected to have taken place around that time. The new findings -- based on an analysis of ancient tropical rocks that are now found in remote northwestern Canada -- bolster the theory that our planet has, at times in the past, been ice-covered at ...... [RAF Typhoon fighters scrambled after passenger disrupts flight - 02 Mar 2010 Two RAF Typhoon fighter aircraft were scrambled after reports of a disruptive passenger on board a Heathrow-bound transatlantic flight.... [More frequent fires could aid ecosystems - 24 Feb 2010 With a changing climate there's a good chance that forest fires in the Pacific Northwest will become larger and more frequent -- and according to one expert speaking today at a professional conference, that's just fine. It will ultimately be good for forest health.... [Climate sceptics are recycled critics of controls on tobacco and acid rain - 22 Feb 2010 In the weeks before and after the Copenhagen climate change conference last December , the science of climate change came under harsh attack by critics who contend that climate scientists have deliberately suppressed evidence — and that the science itself is severely flawed.... [Reef coral bleaching detected - 21 Feb 2010 Scientists have recorded mild coral bleaching around Heron Island at the southern end of the Great Barrier Reef.... [Nigeria, Tunisia Partner on Desertification - 16 Feb 2010 Nigeria and Tunisia are to collaborate in an effort to fight desertification in Nigeria especially among the states in the northern parts of Nigeria.At a sensitization workshop on the utilization of Cactus opuntia to combat desertification held in Abuja, the Ambassador of Tunisia to Nigeria Mr. Moncef Gouja, said the partnership is to further build on previous agreements between Nigeria and ......	['Asylum seekers' die in tower block fall - 08 Mar 2010 Three people who apparently threw themselves from a tower block in Glasgow on Sunday morning may have been asylum-seekers who had just been informed they were to be deported, it has been suggested.... [Refugees 'denied vital healthcare services' - 08 Mar 2010 Victims of torture seeking sanctuary in Britain are being denied vital healthcare in detention centres and the community, the Equality and Human Rights Commission has found.... [ID Card for Workers at Center of Immigration Plan - 08 Mar 2010 Under a potentially controversial plan still taking shape in the Senate, all legal U.S. workers, including citizens and immigrants, would be issued an ID card with embedded information.... [School twinning schemes with Third World countries creating 'neocolonialist' children - 06 Mar 2010 School twinning programmes with Third World countries are promoting "neocolonialist" views among pupils, according to research.... [Will child labour claims stop you buying Apple' - 03 Mar 2010 An audit of Apple's suppliers has found all sort of transgressions. But will we ever take notice of the real reasons that our cheap electronics are so inexpensive' Was your iPod built on the back of child labour' That's something everyone should be wondering after Apple said an audit of factories highlighted numerous failures at factories that supply it - and other companies - with electronics ......	[Jane Wales: The Widow Mary Gargar Meets the Global Positioning System - 04 Mar 2010 For the majority of the world's poor, poverty is predominantly a rural issue. What role can philanthropists play in creating the conditions necessary for wide-spread economic growth in rural areas'... [Google Maps boss to Germans: 'We don't want to invade you' - 02 Mar 2010 Offers nervy burghers Street View delete tool The man behind Google Street View assured Germany the firm didn't want to invade as it sought to allay the country's privacy concerns today.… What is your recession sales strategy'...	[Drastic musk ox population decline 12,000 years ago due to climate, not humans, study finds - 08 Mar 2010 Scientists have discovered that the drastic decline in Arctic musk ox populations that began roughly 12,000 years ago was due to a warming climate rather than to human hunting. The research is the first study to use ancient musk ox DNA collected from across the animal's former geographic range to test for human impacts on musk ox populations.... [Europe's Aging Demographics And Generous Pensions Spell Doom: Business Insider - 03 Mar 2010 What's Your Reaction' What's the real reason Greece is in so much trouble' Old people. The country has a massively generous pension system that's breaking the government's back. Remember, the recession hasn't even been all that deep in comparison to other countries.... [Africa : Anti-Globalisation is Counter-Productive - Stanchart Boss - 16 Feb 2010 International open trade has been blamed for the advent of the global economic crisis, but the business and trading community should not rally against globalisation, a top banker has said.... [Tuncay Babali: Eurasian Geopolitics and Energy Security Deserves More Attention! - 15 Feb 2010 Eurasian Geopolitics and Energy Security Deserves More Attention! The 2007 and 2009 energy crises between Russia and Ukraine, which had major implications across Europe, have......


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