"When he announced that he would baptise any child born to parents with at
least two children already we could not resist the opportunity to have another
baby. To have a child baptised by the Patriarch is so very special."
BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Key role of forests 'may be lost' - 2 views
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Forests' role as massive carbon sinks is "at risk of being lost entirely", top forestry scientists have warned.
BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | How can a graph be so very wrong? - 0 views
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Sir David Attenborough is now patron of the Optimum Population Trust, which lobbies to cut the number of people on Earth. But predicting population change is tricky, says Michael Blastland in his regular column.
BBC NEWS | Americas | Americas on alert for sea level rise - 1 views
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Climate change experts in North and South America are increasingly worried by the potentially devastating implications of higher estimates for possible sea level rises.
BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Earth population 'exceeds limits' - 1 views
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There are already too many people living on Planet Earth, according to one of most influential science advisors in the US government.
BBC NEWS | Africa | Plea for reforms after migrant tragedy - 0 views
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UN aid agencies are suggesting wealthy industrialised nations should perhaps rethink their policies on immigration and asylum in the wake of the latest tragedy in the Mediterranean, writes the BBC's Imogen Foulkes in Geneva.
BBC NEWS | Europe | Church leader sparks Georgian baby boom - 0 views
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A factor affecting Fertility Rates...
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Two years after having one of the lowest birth rates in the world, Georgia is enjoying something of a baby boom, following an intervention from the country's most senior cleric.
YouTube - Gold For Bread - Zimbabwe - 1 views
YouTube - China Slowdown - China - 0 views
IRIN Asia | Asia | Afghanistan | AFGHANISTAN: Limited scope to absorb more refugees | R... - 1 views
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Jalozai was the largest Afghan refugee settlement but was demolished in June 2008 and its settlers were told either to go to their home country or move to other locations inside Pakistan. Insecurity, land disputes and lack of jobs have stopped tens of thousands of returnees from moving to their original areas and rebuilding their houses. Some households, including Jamaluddin's, have set up tents and mud huts in different parts of the eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar
£50bn of European investment needed to kick-start Saharan solar plan, expert ... - 1 views
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Government investment worth £50bn would convince private companies that power from the Sahara solar scheme is feasible and attractive option, expert says
Maldives first country to go carbon neutral | Environment | The Observer - 1 views
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The pioneering new president of the Indian Ocean nation announces plans for his country - under grave threat from climate change - to go carbon-neutral in a decade
A special report on waste: The value of recycling | Round and round it goes | The Econo... - 0 views
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Recycling is good for the environment, but it costs. Is it worth it?
UK to have Europe's biggest population: Migration will force us ahead of Germany, says ... - 0 views
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Britain will overtake Germany as the country with the highest population in Europe, the United Nations predicted yesterday.
Global Climate Change: Evidence - 1 views
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Nasa Jet propulsion laboratory
Ecologists warn the planet is running short of water - Times Online - 1 views
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A swelling global population, changing diets and mankind's expanding "water footprint" could be bringing an end to the era of cheap water.
Drug giant GlaxoSmithKline pledges cheap medicine for world's poor | Business | The Gua... - 0 views
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The world's second biggest pharmaceutical company is to radically shift its attitude to providing cheap drugs to millions of people in the developing world.
Migration - 3 views
Leo Hickman: The truth about recycling | Environment | The Guardian - 0 views
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With stories of old TVs ending up in Nigerian landfill sites, the collapse in demand for recycled materials, and claims that incineration is a better way to dispose of waste, there's a growing backlash against recycling. So should we still be washing up those baked beans cans? Leo Hickman finds out
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