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Scarce resources, climate biggest threats to world health

LONDON (Reuters) - The Earth's natural resources like food, water and forests are being depleted at an alarming speed, causing hunger, conflict, social unrest and species extinction, experts at a climate and health conference in London warned Monday.Increased hunger due to food ...

Google Earth Map Shows Temperature Rise

A new Google Earth map highlights the devastating impact a 4C rise in temperature would have on different parts of the world. The interactive tool, which was released by the UK's coalition government, aims to stimulate the debate on carbon emissions and ...

Building More Sustainable Cities

If civilization needed an icon, "the city" would be it. Even the generally conservative U.S. National Intelligence Council (NIC) recently predicted that global demand for energy, food and water could easily outstrip supplies over the next decade or so, triggering trade-disrupting international ...
Created, written & designed by John Pavlus / Screencasts Andrew Cahill / Music by Jeff Alvarez . For in-depth reporting, check out the Scientific American article on which this segment was based. We've covered other instances in which climate change had profound ...

World starts to act on climate change

One by one, pieces of our green future are stacking up, some more precariously than others. At last week's summit in L'Aquila, Italy, leaders of the G8 declared formally for the first time that the world should not allow global temperatures to ...

Climate pieces start to stack up

One by one, pieces of our green future are stacking up, some more precariously than others. At last week's summit in L'Aquila, Italy, leaders of the G8 declared formally for the first time that the world should not allow global temperatures to ...

Harsh mistress

The charity Oxfam thinks so. The message that Oxfam wants to bring across is that women are the cement of society. For Barbara Stocking, chief executive of Oxfam UK, it's all about lobbying politicians and telling them you care - a message ...

Environment blog

The charity Oxfam thinks so. The message that Oxfam wants to bring across is that women are the cement of society. For Barbara Stocking, chief executive of Oxfam UK, it's all about lobbying politicians and telling them you care - a message ...
For modern day Londoners, it's hard to believe that a river as mighty as the Thames could ever be ground to a halt by freezing over. However, historic accounts and paintings teach us that at one time the Thames regularly froze over ...

Soundbites

Physics professors have a harder time believing in God since their job is to study creation. Michael Atiyah, former head of the UK's Royal Society, at a meeting of top mathematicians in Rome, Italy, aimed at putting maths back on its pedestal ...
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