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Energy without borders

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Iceland has lots of geothermal energy, Norway has hydropower. The wind blows hard in Scotland and the sun always shines in North Africa. Helen Knight explores plans to connect these diverse sources to a single network

Plans to supply all of Europe's electricity from renewable sources has come a step closer thanks to progress in efforts to build a continent-wide supergrid connected to North Africa and theMiddle East.

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http://www.energyrealities.org/detail/energy-without-borders/erp01A99BCF7CA12E960

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World radio day: an opportunity to celebrate an unsung hero

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Amy O'Donnell
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 World Radio Day celebrates radio's role in empowering people in remote communities – not just as a source of information, but increasingly as a way to make their own voices heard

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/poverty-matters/2012/feb/13/world-radio-day-celebrating-unsung-hero?newsfeed=true#start-of-comments

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Can Smarter Growth Guide China’s Urban Building Boom?

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david biello
Can Smarter Growth Guide China’s Urban Building Boom?
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The world has never seen anything like China’s dizzying urbanization boom, which has taken a heavy environmental toll. But efforts are now underway to start using principles of green design and smart growth to guide the nation’s future development.

Coal money, generated by one of the world’s largest open-pit mines, has built a new Ordos, a municipality in the Chinese province of Inner Mongolia.

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Millennium development goals: Two down, six to go

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Millennium development goals: Two down, six to go
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The United Nations has met two of its eight development goals, well ahead of the 2015 deadline. Six goals are left.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/millennium-development-goals-two-down-six-to-go/2012/03/06/gIQAA3VKvR_blog.html

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World’s nations achieve UN goal to improve access to safe drinking water

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UNITED NATIONS — The world’s nations achieved a U.N. goal of cutting in half the proportion of people without access to safe drinking water five years ahead of the 2015 target, the United Nations announced Tuesday.

A report issued by the U.N. children’s agency and the World Health Organization said over 2 billion people gained access to safe drinking water between 1990 and 2010. 

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/worlds-nations-achieve-un-goal-to-improve-access-to-safe-drinking-water/2012/03/06/gIQAXfbFuR_story.html

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Spike in Food Prices Projected by 2013

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JOANNA M. FOSTER
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In 2008 and in 2011, the world was rocked by riots and by revolutions coinciding with spikes in food prices. Now researchers are projecting that by 2013, food prices will soar to unparalleled heights, causing widespread hunger in the most vulnerable populations and social unrest, with an enormous potential for loss of human life.

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http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/07/spike-in-food-prices-projected-by-2013/

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Proposed CA Solar Projects

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Proposed CA Solar Projects

1. Solar Millennium Ridgecrest  250 megawatts

2. Beacon Solar Energy  250 megawatts

3. Abengoa Mojave Solar 1  250 megawatts

4. Hidden Hills Solar  500 megawatts

5. Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System  370 megawatts

6. Calico Solar  664 megawatts

7. City of Palmdale Hybrid Gas-Solar  570 megawatts (520 MW natural gas, 50 MW solar)

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Soil erosion increasing global warming threat-UNEP

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LONDON, Feb 13 (Reuters) - Global warming will get worse as agricultural methods accelerate the rate of soil erosion, which depletes the amount of carbon the soil is able to store, a United Nations' Environment Programme report said on Monday.

Soil contains huge quantities of carbon in the form of organic matter. which provides nutrients for plant growth and improves soil fertility and water movement.

The top metre of soil alone stores around 2,200 billion tonnes of carbon, which is three times the level currently held in the atmosphere, said the UNEP Year Book 2012.

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Tribal Districts Show Heavy Forest Degradation

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Nikita Mehta
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India’s forest cover decreased by 367 square kilometers between 2007 and 2009, and it was primarily tribal and hilly regions that were to blame, according to the biennial forest survey released last week by the Ministry of Environment and Forest.

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http://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2012/02/13/tribal-districts-show-heavy-forest-degradation/?mod=WSJBlog&mod=irt

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