Mankind to wage wars for water by 2025
Pravda - The shortage of fresh water on planet Earth is likely to become the biggest problem ever during the forthcoming decades. Experts from the International Water Management Institute said in their recent report that the water crisis in the world would occur because of the growing number of population.
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Forests to fall for food and fuel
BBC - Demand for land to grow food, fuel crops and wood is set to outstrip supply, leading to the probable destruction of forests, a report warns.
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‘The American Public Is Ready for Nuclear’
Spiegel - David Crane is CEO of NRG Energy, Inc, based in New Jersey. His company is planning to build two new nuclear reactors in Texas, the first such project in almost 30 years in the US. SPIEGEL ONLINE spoke to him about the worldwide nuclear renaissance.
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Jesmo li u zadnjem satu?
H-Alter by Marina Kelava - Tijekom sat i pol vremena više od pedeset znanstvenika i aktivista, od Nobelovke Wangari Maathai, Stephena Hawkinga, Thoma Hartmanna, Davida Suzukija, do Gorbačova govore o tome kako je planet u opasnosti. Sad nije da to baš nismo znali, ali ovaj je film ipak američki optimističan jer se bavi i traženjem nade. Govornici nude svoja moguća rješenja koja bi trebala pridonijeti radikalnoj promjeni, a ta bi bila da čovječanstvo napusti ideju da je priroda tu da bi mi imali nad čim dominirati. I da se vratimo davno zaboravljenoj nužnosti čovjeka kao dijela prirode, pa se tako napokon počnemo i ponašati.
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Earth begins to kill people for changing its climate
Pravda - At least 2.5 million people have been killed in natural disasters over the recent 48 years. The number of casualties over the recent 20 years made up 1.6 million people, the UN said.
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The Itch
New Yorker, by Atul Gawande - Itching is a most peculiar and diabolical sensation. The definition offered by the German physician Samuel Hafenreffer in 1660 has yet to be improved upon: An unpleasant sensation that provokes the desire to scratch. Itch has been ranked, by scientific and artistic observers alike, among the most distressing physical sensations one can experience. In Dante’s Inferno, falsifiers were punished by “the burning rage / of fierce itching that nothing could relieve”.
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A surgical revolution: checklist that could prevent thousands of deaths
Independent - An aircraft-style safety test is to be implemented in all British hospitals to reduce the risks of surgery, using a simple checklist that has been proved to save thousands of lives. Surgeons and nurses will run through the checks before each operation in the same way that pilots check their aircraft before take-off.
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Last chance to save the tuna?
Independent - Urgent measures to save falling stocks of tuna in the world’s second-biggest tuna fishery, the eastern Pacific, must be launched at a key international meeting this week, conservationists are demanding.
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