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Feb 18, 2009
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photo: International Rice Research Institute via flickrAmid concerns about weird weather, sea level rise and changing precipitation patterns, perhaps just as serious a concern (if not more so in some ways) is changes in global food production. With the world population continuing to grow at unsustainable rates, access to fo (Read More)
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Trees across the tropics are getting bigger and offering unexpected help in the fight against climate change, scientists have discovered.A laborious study of the girth of 70,000 trees across Africa has shown that tropical forests are soaking up more carbon dioxide pollution that anybody realised. Almost one-fifth of our fos (Read More)
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A political circus is rolling into Copenhagen ahead of the meeting in December when world leaders will attempt to set new targets for carbon emission reductions.An "emergency summit" next month will put climate change science in the background and political arguments at the forefront. The summit has attracted such luminarie (Read More)
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Facebook has backed down on controversial changes to its terms of service that angered users and caused protests across the social networking site.Two weeks ago the site altered its terms of service so that it continued to retain a copy of all a user's messages, actions and updates – even if they left the network. Until the (Read More)
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The Guardian:
Barack Obama wasn't the only winner in November's presidential election. Thomas Gensemer, whose company Blue State Digital managed Obama's slick online campaign, built his website my.barackobama.com, recruited 13.5 million supporters and raised $500m for the Obama campaign, is also doing very nicely out of the victory. As h (Read More)
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What is art?Ricky Gervais: From painting and poetry to symphonies and sculpture, the arts bring beauty and illumination to some, confusion and frustration to others, but what is art? ... Do [the arts] still make us realise the truth or are they increasingly rarefied and obsolete in this digital, disposable age? With me are (Read More)
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The Guardian:
If Norman Foster's design for a new London bus to replace the Routemaster really does happen in 2012, it'll be a first. Not the first London bus to ever arrive on time, but the first time an architect has successfully designed a motor vehicle. The fact is, while architects are fine at designing chairs, tableware, even earri (Read More)
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Pakistani novelists writing in English - long overshadowed by literary giants from neighbouring India - are now winning attention and acclaim as their country sinks into violence and chaos. Tales of religious extremism, class divides, dictators, war and love have come from writers who grew up largely in Pakistan and now mov (Read More)
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They do it differently in the US. The Creation Museum in Cincinnati (motto: "Prepare to believe!") measures 70,000 sq ft, cost $27m to build, was designed by someone from Universal Studios, and promises "murals and realistic scenery, computer-generated visual effects, over 50 exotic animals, life-sized people and dinosaur (Read More)
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The debate about whether to engage China is over – we are now about 20 years into a common-law marriage. The debate about whether China will join the international community also is over. Beijing has been signing up for multilateral forums as if they were going out of style. The great challenge for US secretary of state Hil (Read More)
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No climate data is without its critics. We do not have the equipment to measure the temperature in every square kilometre of the world's surface so we cannot be sure that global 'averages' are correct. Disputes about the reliability of climate data will continue. But the US Government's National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) (Read More)
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guardian.co.uk Politics:
Should Gordon Brown consider the suggestion that Jackie Ashley floats in her Guardian column this morning and leave No 10 in favour of a new job for which Angela Merkel is said to be promoting him: as head of a new global financial regulatory agency, a sort of IMF-plus?I can hear the hoarse laughter from where I'm sitting. (Read More)
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Global warming is changing the distribution, abundance and diversity of marine life in the polar seas with "profound" implications for creatures further up the food chain, according to scientists involved in the most comprehensive study of life in the oceans ever conducted.Researchers from the Arctic Ocean Diversity (Arcod) (Read More)
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It is the middle of January this year and Bono is at home in Killiney, County Dublin, with an hour to spare before he heads into town for an afternoon of meetings. "Things are looking good," he says. "It's a beautiful, sunny, winter's day and Edna O'Brien has just been sent me her book on Lord Byron." He has been up "from t (Read More)
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Loud were the snorts from RBS staff as they watched the men who had led their bank to ruin make their excuses to MPs. Although the press described the "humiliation" of Sir Tom McKillop, the former chairman, and Sir Fred Goodwin, the former chief executive, insiders knew the pair had got away with murder over the vastly infl (Read More)
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