MOBILE NAV Home News News Share Supporting forest protection programmes in Brazil and Indonesia Unilever is partnering with WWF to bring together a growing community of people who want to fight deforestation
How Much Will Tar Sands Oil Add to Global Warming? - Scientific American
Pet coke is possibly the dirtiest fossil fuel available, emitting at least 30 percent more CO2 per ton than an equivalent amount of the lowest quality mined coals. Global concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere have reached 394 parts per million, up from 280 ppm before the Industrial Revolution and the highest levels seen in at least 800,000 years
How theme parks like Disney World left the middle class behind - The Washington Post
Ebenhack) As one of the biggest man-made attractions on the planet, Disney World has led the way for the theme-park industry to boost its prices, often on a yearly basis. The fun-per-hour value of the experience is still high, Disney executives say, because a tourist can spend all day there (as opposed to, say, a blockbuster movie)
Expert Startup Advice on How to Start a Business with No Money
One untold reason why most businesses stay small and fail after five years is because they are competing against well organized businesses and strong management teams. Are you contented with where you are now? Are you in control of your financial future? Are you tired of your job and want to quit? Do you have brilliant small business ideas within you? These questions will help you decide if to start a business or not
Even more lucrative, each of the swap contracts contained clauses that mandated all sorts of penalties and payments in the event that something went wrong with the deal. So far, the county has managed to avoid bankruptcy, but the sewer fiasco had downgraded its credit rating, triggering payments on other outstanding loans and pushing Birmingham toward the status of an African debtor state
Now I do have 2 questions: 1) The last few times I have seen MISICI Terk and Timon were not present, and I had read on other blogs that they had been cut from the street party. Reply kennythepirate says: January 25, 2015 at 8:20 pm VERY rarely Reply Brandy says: October 18, 2014 at 9:22 pm I was at Animal Kingdom the other day and saw Ratclffe with Meeko
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According to the latest UN projections, world population will rise from 6.8 billion today to 9.1 billion in 2050 - a third more mouths to feed than there are today. Water Water withdrawals for irrigated agriculture are projected to grow at a slower pace due to reduced demand and improved water use efficiency, but will still increase by almost 11 percent by 2050
To compare wages across countries, the calculator adjusts all figures by using the World Bank's Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) conversion rate, which reflects variations in the cost of living from one country to another
So why bother with estimates from aggregated search queries? Traditional flu surveillance is very important, but most health agencies focus on a single country or region and only update their estimates once per week. But can search query trends provide the basis for an accurate, reliable model of real-world phenomena? We have found a close relationship between how many people search for flu-related topics and how many people actually have flu symptoms
I succeeded as a cartoonist with negligible art talent, some basic writing skills, an ordinary sense of humor and a bit of experience in the business world. I landed the job, thanks to my impressive interviewing skills, my can-do attitude and the fact that everyone else in the solar system had more interesting plans
As Kurdish-held border crossings fall to Isis, Turkey will find it has a new neighbour of extraordinary violence, and one deeply ungrateful for past favours from the Turkish intelligence service.As for Saudi Arabia, it may come to regret its support for the Sunni revolts in Syria and Iraq as jihadi social media begins to speak of the House of Saud as its next target. More than a billion Sunnis have simply had enough of them." The fatal moment predicted by Prince Bandar may now have come for many Shia, with Saudi Arabia playing an important role in bringing it about by supporting the anti-Shia jihad in Iraq and Syria
Well done, you're drifting! But did you know it's often the slower option when it comes to fast laps in Driveclub? As with OutRun 2, getting your car's wheels in good contact with the road and accelerating through a corner is faster than sliding around it sideways. Hitting the back of another car too hard will incur a penalty that reduces your engine power for a few seconds, and you certainly don't need that when you're trying to set a fast time
Greek Debt Crisis: How Goldman Sachs Helped Greece to Mask its True Debt - SPIEGEL ONLINE
"Around 2002 in particular, various investment banks offered complex financial products with which governments could push part of their liabilities into the future," one insider recalled, adding that Mediterranean countries had snapped up such products. After recalculating the figures, the experts at Eurostat consistently came up with the same results: In truth, the deficit each year has been far greater than the three percent limit
Putting a Price on a Human Egg The A-Hed French Bistros Battle Over Secret Sauce World Physicists Restart Souped-Up Collider PLAY World President Obama Talks Ethiopian Development and Extremism Wall Street Journal Europe Edition U.S
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The question in Washington, apart from how to escape the city on traffic-choked Friday afternoons, is whether political leaders are capable of building on these ideas. And between 1956 and 1992 America constructed the interstate system, among the largest public-works projects in history, which criss-crossed the continent with nearly 50,000 miles of motorways
Worldmapper: The world as you've never seen it before
Use 'Map Categories' or 'Thumbnail Index' to choose a map A large PDF poster is provided with each map for printing The original Worldmapper project was realised by many people, including Mark Newman, Danny Dorling, Anna Barford, Ben Wheeler, John Pritchard, Graham Allsopp and Benjamin Hennig. Worldmapper now als feature a series of population maps using our novel gridded cartogram approach: Worldmapper Population Atlas If you are interested in more background on map projections, read the short introductions about Worldmapper and map projections and gridded cartograms as a map projection
"These services are vital for basic health and also prevent the potential second crisis of illnesses like cholera and diarrhea." Suggestions from readers: How can I help? Many of you have been impacted by the earthquake that has rocked Nepal and surrounding areas. Once initial relief work is complete, this fund will transition to support longer-term recovery efforts" run by vetted local organizations, according to a post on the GlobalGiving site
New NASA data show how the world is running out of water - The Washington Post
Rain-starved California is currently tapping aquifers for 60 percent of its water use as its rivers and above-ground reservoirs dry up, a steep increase from the usual 40 percent. Famiglietti said problems with groundwater are exacerbated by global warming, which has caused the regions closest to the equator to get drier and more extreme latitudes to experience wetter and heavier rains
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