[Submitted by: Paul Christmas]
"The following site has a detailed section on freshwater and many other topics. It will be useful for the options section of the IB and in future will develop sections for the core. A key highlight are some of the detailed case studies. However the site is under development and so some section are are not complete. Some food and health case studies are required and the extreme environments sections is still being written. The site will be useful for both students and teachers of IB geography but has not been written exclusively for the IB."
Japan's workers are being urged to switch off their laptops, go home early and use what little energy they have left on procreation, in an attempt to avert demographic disaster.
India has banned pre-natal scanning to determine the sex of a baby and made aborting a child as a result of such a scan punishable with five years in prison. Poster campaigns urge Indians to 'save the girl child'.
In the state of Punjab, only 798 girls were born for every 1,000 boys.
high-powered group of senior Republicans and Democrats led two missions to
China in the final months of the Bush administration for secret backchannel
negotiations aimed at securing a deal on joint US-Chinese action on climate
change, the Guardian has learned.