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The world is now firmly on the path for dangerous climate change in the coming century, a major new assessment reveals today on the eve of the forthcoming UN climate conference which opens next week in Mexico.
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"This book is a masterpiece: original, challenging and brilliantly argued. Simon Fairlie is a great thinker and a great writer."
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A new initiative to fight climate change and conserve forests by leaving oil in the ground has taken off in Ecuador, which hopes that other countries will contribute to a fund and share the costs of forgoing oil revenues.
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The persistence of food crises and food price volatility has spawned some false solutions. The most notable of these is the 'New Green Revolution for Africa', launched by the philanthropic foundation established by Microsoft founder Bill Gates. As...
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More than a quarter of a million eggs from an Ohio farm have been recalled from eight states because of Salmonella enteritidis concerns.
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A conference organized by the Geological Society in London this week will bring together scientists from around the world to look at how the world coped with climate change in the past....
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The 2008 world food price crisis, and more recent price hikes this year, have focused attention on the ability of the world food system to "feed the world." In La Vía Campesina, the global alliance of peasant and family farm organizations, we...
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It's used almost everywhere. It's in almost all of us. It does weird things to rodents and it may be doing weird things to us-but it's tough to be certain. Bisphenol-A (BPA) has become a litmus test for how people view environmental health and the...
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When the U.S. Public Health Service endorsed water fluoridation in 1950, there was little evidence of its safety. Now, six decades later and after most countries have rejected the practice, more than 70 percent of Americans, as well as 200 million...
