Tuesday, 17 June 2008
Sunday, 15 June 2008
Best-Places-to-Live-2008
Mercer Consulting's annual roundup of the global cities with the best quality of life is here, and Zurich once again comes out on top. The best place in the U.S.? Honolulu at No. 28.
New York, London, and Paris are internationally renowned cities but consultants at Mercer Consulting have picked Zurich, Switzerland, as the best place to live in the company's annual survey.
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Consultants rated each city on a variety of factors including the level of traffic congestion, air quality, and personal safety reported by expatriates living in more than 600 cities worldwide. In the top 25, U.S. cities such as San Francisco, Boston, and Chicago were all edged out by Geneva, Switzerland, Vancouver, B.C., and Auckland, New Zealand. The highest-scoring U.S. city is Honolulu, which came in at No. 28.
The-World's-Best-Places-to-Live-2008: Personal Finance News from Yahoo! Finance
Wednesday, 11 June 2008
Nature laid waste: The destruction of Africa
Nature laid waste: The destruction of Africa - Africa, World - The Independent
Monday, 9 June 2008
Sunday, 8 June 2008
FOOD CRISIS
Global food crisis http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/7432583.stm UN food response http://www.economist.com/world/international/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10926579 rising food prices http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/apr/09/food.unitednations - global food crisis http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/7284196.stm food facts http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/apr/12/egypt.food http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/polit ics/the-other-global-crisis-rush-to-biofuels-is-driving-up-price-of-food-808138.html http://www.eci.ox.ac.uk/news/events/gecafs-0408.php food stories http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7432972.stm rural people fight back in Lesotho
Thursday, 5 June 2008
Meteo satellite images - Sat24.com - Realtime weather satellite images of Europe
Meteo satellite images - Sat24.com - Realtime weather satellite images of Europe
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Plan for quake 'warning system'
Nasa scientists have said they could be on the verge of a breakthrough in their efforts to forecast earthquakes.
Researchers say they have found a close link between electrical disturbances on the edge of our atmosphere and impending quakes on the ground below.
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Plan for quake 'warning system'
Wednesday, 4 June 2008
Monday, 2 June 2008
Saturday, 31 May 2008
Greener and leaner - how the west could stave off disaster
The crisis will require a complex package of policy responses over the short to long term
Food aid Seeds Fertilisers Export Bans Free trade
BioFuels Agricultural Investment GM Crops Sustainabiity
Interactive VIDEOS on the food crisis from China, Egypt, Scotland and the Phillipines.
INTERACTIVE Global food crisis
Greener and leaner - how the west could stave off disaster | Environment | The Guardian
Thursday, 29 May 2008
South West tops long-life table
People in the South West are more likely to live into their mid 70s than those living elsewhere in England and Wales, official data shows.
BBC NEWS Health South West tops long-life table
Tuesday, 27 May 2008
Nuclear clean-up costs 'to soar'
The cost of cleaning-up the UK's ageing nuclear facilities, including some described as "dangerous", looks set to rise above £73bn, the BBC has learned.A senior official at the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority said the bill would rise by billions of pounds. Nineteen sites across the country, some dating from the 1950s, are due to be dismantled in the coming decades.
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Nuclear clean-up costs 'to soar'
Climate Change Encyclopedia of Earth
The last two decades of the 20th century produced mounting evidence that climate change posed significant risks to society. At the beginning of the 21st century, climate change has become a defining issue of our time. The importance of this issue is underscored by its magnitude and complexity: it is a global problem with wide geographic and economic disparity between the largest sources of the problem and those who will experience the greatest impacts. Many solutions often run counter to powerful entrenched interests and long-held patterns of individual behavior. All of this is happening amidst a global community that is increasingly connected by flows of information, people, commerce and environmental change. This collection brings together some of the world’s leading scientists and organizations and presents the essential knowledge underlying the issue of climate change.
Climate Change (collection) - Encyclopedia of Earth
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