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NOBEL LAUREATES CALL FOR A GLOBAL DEAL ON CLIMATE CHANGE From 26-28 May 2009, Nobel Laureates from across the disciplines were joined by world experts in climate change to discuss the connections between global warming and other urgent environmental, economic and development challenges facing our world. The Symposium was hosted at The Royal Society and St. James’s Palace under the patronage of HRH The Prince of Wales. It concluded with a Memorandum that was signed by Literature Laureate Wole Soyinka and Peace Laureate Wangari Maathai, as well as by Laureates in Chemistry, Physics and Economics, calling for immediate action by the world's leaders. For more information, http://www.nobelcause.org The NEW Climate Deal |  A Pocket Guide:What YOU need to know English Version Version française Today's Environmental News
Special report: Peak everything. By 2030, the global middle class is expected to grow by two-thirds. That’s 3 billion more shoppers. They'll all want access to goods, including water, wheat, coffee and oil. Is there enough for everybody? Can business satisfy demand and avoid hitting "peak everything?"Bloomberg News View more... Swept from Africa to the Amazon. The story of dust is actually about the challenges of trying to figure out what is happening to the planet we inhabit. It shows how an influence on one area of the earth’s ecosystem can have outsize effects on other areas.Scientific American View more... Messages show conflict within US after Japan earthquake and tsunami. A trove of e-mails posted on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s web site shows an agency struggling to figure out how to respond and how to deal with the American public while cutting through what one official called“the fog of information”coming out of Japan.Washington Post View more... Provided by Environmental Health News AAAS Atlas of Population "...an essential reference for anyone who is seriously thinking about the future ." "If a picture is worth a thousand words this presentation of the environmental impact of human activity is worth at least a million." The AAAS Atlas of Population and Environment is an important analysis of the relationships between human population and the environment. Illustrating through text, maps, and diagrams how population affects the world's ecosystems and natural resources both in the short and long term, the Atlas brings together a wealth of information from the most up-to-date sources. New | MyAtlas | Build your own research AAAS
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