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West Antarctic Ice Sheet warming twice earlier estimate

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The Larsen B ice shelf collapsed in just a month in 2002
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A new analysis of temperature records indicates that the Western Antarctic Ice Sheet is warming nearly twice as fast as previously thought.

US researchers say they found the first evidence of warming during the southern hemisphere's summer months.

They are worried that the increased melting of ice as a result of warmer temperatures could contribute to sea-level rise.

The study has been published in the journal Nature Geoscience.

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Illegal drugs

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Wednesday, August 22, 2012

The world market for illegal drugs-some $150 billion retail, involving some 200 million users-is the world's largest illicit market. It is a huge market even in relative terms: about half the size of the pharmaceuticals market, and close to the tobacco and alcohol market.

A Biodiversity Map, Version 2.0

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Tigers and pandas live in Asia, kangaroos and koalas in Australia and polar bears and snowy owls in the Arctic. The world can be divided into regions based upon the unique types of animals that live there. Or so the thinking went when Alfred Russel Wallace published the scientific world’s first global biodiversity map in 1876.

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Biotechnology rules

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Biotechnology rules

Biotechnology rules

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Monday, August 20, 2012

Biotechnology rules, not even a topic twenty years ago, have been made a pressing global issue by the spectacular explosion of discoveries in recent years. Yet biotechnology is still in its infancy, so far bringing up many more questions and possibilites than answers and outcomes.

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International labor and migration rules

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International labor and migration rules

International labor and migration rules

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Friday, August 17, 2012

The new world economy force demands more attention to the labor rules national economies apply-as they ineract more and more with eachother. The demographic force throws in a series of migration-related issues. It is hard to imagine the world twenty years from now not having some sort of global labor market rules in place-because such a market is clearly in the making.

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E-commerce rules

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E-commerce rules

E-commerce rules

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Wednesday, August 15, 2012

It is hard to do justice to the variety and complexity of e-commerce issues in so little space. The main point is the urgency of solving this emerging global issue fast.-while it is still in its infancy.

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