SDSN Networks in Action 2020
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The Great Hunger 2008
Food, fuel and feed are now tied together, more than ever, by a single string
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Convincing the skeptics
By John P. Holdren Published: August 4, 2008 The few climate-change "skeptics" with any sort of scientific credentials continue to receive attention in the media out of all proportion to their numbers, their qualifications, or the merit of their arguments. And this muddying of the waters of public discourse is being magnified by the parroting of these arguments by a larger population of amateur skeptics with no scientific credentials at all.
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Processing plant ties up with French firm
- Siliguri company gets ready to send produce to Europe AVIJIT SINHA Dominique Coulombel (second from left) and Laury Bouchard (fourth from left) at the Rainbow factory on Saturday. A Telegraph picture Kantivita (Phansidewa), Aug. 3: A Siliguri-based company has invested more than Rs 10 crore to raise a food processing plant here, the produce from which will make its way to several European countries.
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Liberty on two wheels
A heavy, modern bicycle that promises easy mobility in the age of congestion, expensive fuel, and pollution has taken off brilliantly in Paris
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A new fashion catches on in Paris: Cheap bicycle rentals
By Steven Erlanger PARIS: They're clunky, heavy and ugly, but they have become modish
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Domain.unlimited
launching websites may become cheaper with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (icann) deciding to expand domain names from .com and .org to anything after the dot.
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Climate change
geology Climate change in ice age Greenland ice core analysis showed drastic climate change near the end of last ice age. Scientists have found two huge temperature spikes in the Northern Hemisphere prior to the close of the last ice age, about 11,500 years ago. They ascribe it to fundamental reorganization of atmospheric circulation. The ice core showed that the Northern Hemisphere
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Paris Mayor eyes use-and-leave car commute
Success of popular bike-sharing system spawns new idea Green dreams: Mayor Bertrand Delanoe launches the Velib cycles in Paris in July 2007. PARIS: Paris' ambitious Mayor has a new "green dream' after the spectacular success of his bike-sharing scheme launched a year ago: a version for electric cars. Under Bertrand Delanoe's environmentally friendly plan, a driver could pick up a car, say, on the Left Bank, snake up the slopes of Montmartre, then drop it off
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France orders probe at all nuclear sites
The French government on Thursday ordered an investigation into the water table around all of France's 58 nuclear reactors in an effort to dispel fears raised by a leak from a treatment plant run by Areva in southern France. Jean-Louis Borloo, ecology minister, has asked an independent committee to carry out the probe to stem mounting public concern over nuclear waste management after a low-grade leak at the Socatri treatment plant at Tricastin focused public attention on a still unexplained, older contamination of the water table.
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India changes strategy for briefing at Vienna
Meeting For IAEA Board Members & Some In NSG Only IN A last-minute change of plan, India has decided to reduce the number of countries it will brief on the IAEA-India specific safeguards agreement and keep the IAEA secretariat out of the picture for the July 18 meeting.