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from January 1993
Last Number: July 2010

Worldwatch Institute
ISSN 0896-0615


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Cantidad de documentos en esta fuente: 1668

May 01, 2002

  • India builds dam over seismic fault.

  • New studies show cooling and ice-sheet thickening in Antarctica.

  • Activists propose halting biological patenting.

  • Malaria, mosquitoes, and DDT: the toxic war against a global disease.

  • Fateful Harvest: The True Story of a Small Town, a Global Industry, and a Toxic Secret.

  • Power Politics.

  • The plight of birds: today, more than a thousand species of birds face extinction. Many more are in steady decline. Significantly, the strategies that can stop this attrition are the same strategies needed to achieve a sustainable human future.

  • The path to the Johannesburg Summit.

  • Why your daily fix can fix more than your head: coffee, if grown right, can be one of the rare human industries that actually restore the Earth's health.

  • Homeland security.

    • January 01, 2003

  • Climate business as usual.

  • Bush's scientific relativism.

  • From readers.

  • World Bank halts funding for massive Romanian mine.

  • Studies find sprawl exacerbates drought, threatens farmlands.

  • Scientists map genetic code of malaria parasite.

  • Insurance companies warn global warming will cost $70 billion annually.

  • A human thirst: humans now appropriate more than half of all the freshwater in the world. Rising demands from agriculture, industry, and a growing population have left important habitats around the world high and dry.

  • Oil & Blood: the way to take over the world.

  • Poisoned waters: Bangladesh, desperately seeking solutions.

  • Cultivating the butterfly effect.

  • Privatizing water.

  • Biodiversity factors.

  • No fishing.

    • March 01, 2003

  • Jeopardizing a blueprint for reproductive health.

  • Rubbernecking the commons.

  • From readers.

  • Microchips are tiny, but their environmental footprint is heavy.

  • The first fuel-cell cars hit the road.

  • Study finds nearly half the Earth is still wilderness.

  • Waste from disposable phones to be curtailed.

  • Long-range forecast.

  • A new security threat: HIV/AIDS in the military.

  • Who cares about AIDS?

  • Because the Earth needs a good lawyer.

  • Matters of scale.

  • Mapping the nature of diversity: a landmark project reveals a remarkable correspondence between indigenous land use and the survival of natural areas.

    • May 01, 2003

  • U.S. democracy: will the last one out please turn off the lights?

  • "It's not about oil"! (Note From a World Watcher).

  • From readers.

  • Canadian fish farms spread disease to wild salmon.

  • Emissions trading begins.

  • As migration grows, immigrants face greater barriers.

  • European wind energy production reaches new highs.

  • Study reveals sari cloth filtration reduces cholera.

  • Arsenic in Bangladesh.

  • Bhopal disaster.

  • The Lomborg scam.

  • Global population.

  • Factory farming in the developing world: in some critical respects, this is not progress at all.