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• Fires in Indonesian swamp forest may have killed a third of rare orangutan ... Washington Post
• Shocker: Conservative Fox News Guest Tears Up Conservative Lies About Chevy Volt CleanTechnica
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• 492 US Coal plants, 20% sched to close. businessghana
• Obama Power-Plant Rule Signals Demise of 'Old King Coal' Bloomberg
• Rampant water "pillage" is sucking Yemen dry Reuters
• Chesapeake grasses drop more than 20 percent in 2011; rains, heat blamed Washington Post
• American Sustainable Business Council supports EPA carbon standard Electric Light & Power
• EPA to impose first greenhouse gas limits on power plantsWashington Post
• Global climate-change toll soars $20T yearly Business Mirror
• "Strong evidence" linking extreme heatwaves, floods, and droughts to climate ... Mongabay.com
• EPA to reduce new power plants' carbon pollution BusinessWeek
• EPA to reduce new power plants' carbon pollution BusinessWeek

Fires in Indonesian swamp forest may have killed a third of rare orangutan ... Washington Post Posted: 28 Mar 2012 10:20 AM PDT http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/fires-in-indonesian-swamp-forest-may-have-killed-a-third-of-rare-orangutan-population-there/2012/03/28/gIQA5OiegS_story.html

Shocker: Conservative Fox News Guest Tears Up Conservative Lies About Chevy Volt CleanTechnica Posted: 28 Mar 2012 10:20 AM PDT http://cleantechnica.com/2012/03/28/shocker-conservative-fox-news-guest-tears-up-conservative-lies-about-chevy-volt/

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492 US Coal plants, 20% sched to close. businessghana Posted: 28 Mar 2012 09:16 AM PDT http://www.businessghana.com/portal/news/index.php?op=getNews&news_cat_id=&id=162822

Obama Power-Plant Rule Signals Demise of 'Old King Coal' Bloomberg Posted: 28 Mar 2012 08:43 AM PDT http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-03-28/obama-power-plant-rule-signals-demise-of-old-king-coal-1-.html

Rampant water "pillage" is sucking Yemen dry Reuters Posted: 28 Mar 2012 08:37 AM PDT http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/28/us-yemen-water-idUSBRE82R0RZ20120328

Chesapeake grasses drop more than 20 percent in 2011; rains, heat blamed Washington Post Posted: 28 Mar 2012 08:14 AM PDT http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/chesapeake-grasses-drop-more-than-20-percent-in-2011-rains-heat-blamed/2012/03/28/gIQAfwMHgS_story.html

American Sustainable Business Council supports EPA carbon standard Electric Light & Power Posted: 28 Mar 2012 08:06 AM PDT http://www.elp.com/index/display/article-display/2218144426/articles/electric-light-power/policy-and_regulation/2012/March/American_Sustainable_Business_Council_supports_EPA_carbon_standard.html

EPA to impose first greenhouse gas limits on power plantsWashington Post Posted: 28 Mar 2012 08:04 AM PDT http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/epa-to-impose-first-greenhouse-gas-limits-on-power-plants/2012/03/26/gIQAiJTscS_story.html

Global climate-change toll soars $20T yearly Business Mirror Posted: 28 Mar 2012 06:50 AM PDT http://businessmirror.com.ph/home/economy/25155-global-climate-change-toll-soars-20t-yearly

"Strong evidence" linking extreme heatwaves, floods, and droughts to climate ... Mongabay.com Posted: 28 Mar 2012 06:20 AM PDT http://news.mongabay.com/2012/0328-hance_extremeweather_climatechange.html

EPA to reduce new power plants' carbon pollution BusinessWeek Posted: 28 Mar 2012 05:53 AM PDT http://www.businessweek.com/ap/2012-03/D9TOUGA00.htm

EPA to reduce new power plants' carbon pollution BusinessWeek Posted: 28 Mar 2012 04:50 AM PDT http://www.businessweek.com/ap/2012-03/D9TOUGA00.htm

World Tuberculosis Day 2012: Stopping Tuberculosis in Our Lifetimes Huffington Post

World Tuberculosis Day 2012: Stopping Tuberculosis in Our Lifetimes

Huffington Post - ‎3 hours ago‎

It is estimated that one-third of the world's population currently has latent tuberculosis [6]. Significant progress has been made in the fight against TB in recent decades.

TB: Promise Of New Diagnosis Technology Seattle Post Intelligencer

On World TB Day Project HOPE Hails Promise Of New Diagnosis Technology

Seattle Post Intelligencer - ‎16 hours ago‎

About one-third of the world's population is infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTb), the bacterium that causes TB.

The 5-Point Plan of Jim Kim, Obama's Choice for World Bank BusinessWeek

The 5-Point Plan of Jim Kim, Obama's Choice for World Bank

BusinessWeek - ‎4 minutes ago‎

By Peter Coy on March 23, 2012 Dr. Jim Yong Kim, the Korean-American physician who's in line to become the next president of the World Bank, has a five-point plan for fighting disease and poverty. It's not his alone, but rather the “model of care” ...

Africa's urban population to triple in 40 years, UN-Habitat Coastweek

Africa's urban population to triple in 40 years, UN-Habitat

Coastweek - ‎6 hours ago‎

NAIROBI (Xinhua) -- Africa 's urban population is set to triple over the next 40 years, the United Nations agency for human settlements said on Monday. The UN Human Settlement Programme (UN-HABITAT) Deputy Executive Director Aisa Kirabo Kacyira told ...

WOW WOW Obama's World Bank Pick, Dr. Jim Yong Kim, Links Global Health and Economic ... TIME

Obama's World Bank Pick, Dr. Jim Yong Kim, Links Global Health and Economic ...

TIME - ‎36 minutes ago‎

By Sam Gustin | @samgustin | March 23, 2012 | + Barack Obama (R) makes a point about Dartmouth College president Jim Yong Kim (L) as he introduces him as his nominee to be the next president of the World Bank, during an announcement in the Rose Garden ...

What Do Declining Birthrates Mean for the World? New York Times

What Do Declining Birthrates Mean for the World?

New York Times - ‎22 hours ago‎

And that, in turn, can provide the financial resources needed to provide for an aging population. All things considered, it's a far less daunting challenge than is posed by endless population growth in a world with limited resources.

The fertility implosionEl Paso Inc.

Wolf in Sheep's Clothing: David Brooks: Population implosion is taking a global toll Post-Bulletin

David Brooks: Population implosion is taking a global toll

Post-Bulletin - ‎Mar 16, 2012‎

If the 20th century was the century of the population explosion, the 21st century, as Eberstadt notes, is looking like the century of the fertility implosion.

Five poverty-fighting women to watch Christian Science Monitor

Five poverty-fighting women to watch

Christian Science Monitor - ‎3 hours ago‎

They're creating innovative new ways for women - and men - to lift themselves out of poverty. By Kyla Springer, Global Envision / March 13, 2012 CEO and founder of Samasource Leila Janah takes part in a session during the Clinton Global Initiative in ...

UN report warns that global water scarcity will worsen as food demand grows Boston Globe

UN report warns that global water scarcity will worsen as food demand grows

Boston Globe - ‎13 hours ago‎

The UN Food and Agriculture Organization has said food output must rise 70 percent by 2050 to feed a world population expected to grow to 9.3 billion from 7 billion now and as increasingly rich consumers in developing economies eat more meat.

Climate change threaten global water supplies: UNWater World

UN World water development report: 'Increasing demand and climate change ...PreventionWeb (press release)

World Water Forum: Water crisis is looming GlobalPost

World Water Forum: Water crisis is looming

GlobalPost - ‎45 minutes ago‎

The discussion at the 6th annual Water Forum in Marseilles has been focused on claims that the world's water supply is being strained by climate change and population growth. A boy fishes with a net in the lagoon in Ganvie, near Cotonou, Benin.

World Water Supply: Climate Change And Food Pressures Adding Challenges, UN ...Huffington Post

Three Factors Driving Water Scarcity Throughout Much of the WorldAlterNet

In Depth:A hard, dry future for the planetThe Independent

The need for women's empowerment The Guardian

The need for women's empowerment

The Guardian - ‎7 hours ago‎

Lester Brown, president of the Earth Policy Institute points to the potential impact on female empowerment of access to family planning services: "There are 215 million women in the world today who want to plan their familes but who do not have access ...

Water crunch looms without action on waste, says UN report Economic Times

Water crunch looms without action on waste, says UN report

Economic Times - ‎35 minutes ago‎

They include providing clean water and sanitation to the poor, feeding a world population set to rise from seven billion to nine billion by 2050 and coping with the impact of global warming.

UNO: global future is dark and terrible in terms of water and food resourcesAzerbaijan Business Center

'Strong Women, Strong World:' Working to End the Cycle of Poverty and ... Christian Post

'Strong Women, Strong World:' Working to End the Cycle of Poverty and ...

Christian Post - ‎Mar 8, 2012‎

WOV is a volunteer ministry of the well-known 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization World Vision. World Vision serves as a Christian humanitarian organization to tackle the challenges of global poverty and injustice in over 100 countries around the world.

It Takes Women to End Global Poverty Women's eNews

It Takes Women to End Global Poverty

Women's eNews - ‎10 hours ago‎

By Cassandra Q. Butts Women produce half of the world's food, earn 10 percent of the world's income and own less than 1 percent of the world's property. The US Government's Millennium Challenge Corporation says its anti-poverty efforts aim to change ...

Brutal Droughts, Worsened By Global Warming, Threaten Food Production Around The World

Brutal Droughts, Worsened By Global Warming, Threaten Food Production Around The World

Really? How long? Dire Poverty Falls Despite Global Slump, Report Finds New York Times

Dire Poverty Falls Despite Global Slump, Report Finds

New York Times - ‎Mar 6, 2012‎

WASHINGTON - A World Bank report shows a broad reduction in extreme poverty - and indicates that the global recession, contrary to economists' expectations, did not increase poverty in the developing world. The report shows that for the first time ...

Global poverty in decline, says World Bank reportGlobalPost

The Contradictions in Global Poverty NumbersBrookings Institution

Realy? How For Long? World meets Millennium safe water goals: UN China Daily

Majority of population has access to potable water, exceeding MDG target

BusinessWorld Online Edition - ‎3 hours ago‎

In a statement released on Wednesday, the UN said a report by the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the World Health Organization (WHO) showed that in 2010, 6.1 billion people or 89% of the world's population had sustainable access to safe drinking water ...

World meets Millennium safe water goals: UN China Daily

World Has Met Development Target on Water, UN ClaimsInter Press Service

Get involved, empower girls CANOE

Get involved, empower girls

CANOE - ‎10 hours ago‎

Investing in girls, especially in their education, can literally transform lives and end global poverty, says Roberts. An educated girl will be more likely to marry later and have fewer, healthier children.

Archbishop of Canterbury Insists Tackling AIDS Has Wider Social Implications Christian Post

Archbishop of Canterbury Insists Tackling AIDS Has Wider Social Implications

Christian Post - ‎3 hours ago‎

By Ivana Kvesic , Christian Post Reporter The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williams, discussed the importance of combating HIV/AIDS in tackling global poverty and and its implications on gender roles and minority rights at a town hall meeting at ...