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Challenge of Feeding the World

November 21st, 2010

In the previous article it was stated that the world’s population should rise by another 3 billion people by the middle of the century – to 9 billion. So how are we going to feed them considering the present food shortages in many countries? Read more…

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Hope for Polluted Ecosystems

August 4th, 2009

Most polluted or damaged ecosystems worldwide can recover within a lifetime if societies commit to their cleanup or restoration, according to an analysis of 240 independent studies by researchers at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. Read more…

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Just How Fragile is Nature?

January 2nd, 2009

There are many issues that remind us of the fragility of our world and its ecosystems – climate change, habitat destruction, GM plants and so on ad infinitum and these multifarious issues generally lead us to worry about the uncertainty in the ecological balance of nature Read more…

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