Water wars? Thirsty, energy-short China stirs fear
DENIS D. GRAY
DENIS D. GRAY
Julie Steenhuyse
CHICAGO, April 13 (Reuters) - More than 2.6 million pregnancies a year end in stillbirth, a tragedy which mostly hits women in poor countries and accounts for more deaths than AIDS and malaria combined, researchers said on Wednesday.
The Associated Press
India's new national census puts the population at about 1.21 billion people, or 17 per cent of the world population, the census commissioner says.
Patrick Worsnip
UNITED NATIONS, March 29 (Reuters) - The wealth gap between the least developed and other countries has widened in recent decades and will go on doing so unless their basic weaknesses are tackled, a report for the United Nations said on Tuesday.
Michael McCarthy
Thursday, 10 March 2011
Sidney Draggan
A burst of gamma rays reaching Earth may have caused
an extinction 440 million years ago. Credit: NASA
We are facing issues of near-overwhelming complexity and unprecedented urgency. Can we think systemically and fashion policies accordingly? Can we change direction before we go over the edge? Here are a few of the many facts from the book to consider:
New York - The United Nations called Monday for a clean energy revolution that would provide electricity to the world population, including the 1.6 billion people who currently have no access to it.
Country: USA
Author: Deborah Zabarenko