Thursday, 5 June 2008
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
Saturday, 24 May 2008
Sunday, 18 May 2008
19.20.21 WORLD CITIES
There are going to be 19 cities with over 20 million people in the 21st century.
19.20.21.
World Hunger - Social and Economic Policy - Global Policy Forum
The world produces enough food to ensure every person a healthy and productive life, yet more than 800 million people suffer from chronic malnutrition, while large numbers of others suffer from obesity. The UN’s Millennium Development Goals seek to reduce the percentage of hungry people by half by the year 2015. Considering the plentiful resources available and the terrible consequences of starvation, hunger and malnutrition, it is a very modest commitment. Political leaders of virtually every country have endorsed the goal. But these same leaders are doing very little to build a strategy or to implement required change.
World Hunger - Social and Economic Policy - Global Policy Forum
Defra, Noise Mapping England
The noise maps on this site have been produced by Defra to meet the requirements of the Environmental Noise (England) Regulations 2006, and are intended to inform the production of noise action plans for large urban areas, major transport sources, and significant industrial sites in England.
Defra, Noise Mapping England
Saturday, 17 May 2008
Two disasters, contrasting reactions
Two Asian countries reeling from the horror of tens of thousands of people probably dead and hundreds of thousands more made destitute and homeless.
And two governments, one a military junta and the other a Communist oligarchy, both traditionally suspicious of outside intervention.
But what a contrast between the different ways they are handling their situations.
BBC NEWS | World | Asia-Pacific | Two disasters, contrasting reactions
Wednesday, 14 May 2008
Tuesday, 13 May 2008
Search for China quake survivors
A massive search and rescue operation is under way in south-western China after one of the most powerful earthquakes in decades.
Troops have arrived in Wenchuan county at the epicentre, which was largely cut off by the quake - but heavy rain is hampering rescue operations.
BBC NEWS | World | Asia-Pacific | Search for China quake survivors
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