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Soaring Population May Swamp Anti-Poverty Goals

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Published on Monday, August 17, 2009 by Inter Press Service by Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS - The U.N.'s Millennium Development Goals, already undermined by the global financial crisis, are expected to take another hit - this time from rising population growth. courtesy of The Boston Globe

Phosphorus, Nitrogen Levels Spike in Lake Winnipeg After Massive Spring Flood

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By: Chinta Puxley, THE CANADIAN PRESS - 16/08/2009 WINNIPEG - The massive spring flood in Manitoba that transformed the Red River into a lake and caused at least $40 million in property damage has also taken a toll ..... Satellite image courtesy of Greg McCullough

Canada Loses out as U.S. Ups "Green" Ante

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By Nicole Mordant - VANCOUVER, British Columbia (Reuters) The Obama administration's titanic $60 billion spending plan for the U.S. clean energy sector is luring investors away from "green" businesses in Canada... Courtesy of photosearch.com

The CAFO Syndrome

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An interview with Mia MacDonald on China’s growing appetite for Western-style meat Posted on 17 Feb 2009 - by Anna Lappe - Grist ==== Across the planet, old ways of farming are giving way to the environmentally devastating factory farms we’ve pioneered in the West... Photo by Kichiro Sato

Climate Change Seen as Threat to U.S. Security

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By JOHN M. BRODER - The New York Times - August 8, 2009 WASHINGTON — The changing global climate will pose profound strategic challenges to the United States in coming decades, raising the prospect of military intervention...

Attack Against Offices of VĆ­a Campesina

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Editor's note - It's worth noting that Canada has actually been making excuses for this stinking coup! Please express your solidarity with "Via Camp!" l.p. ====== Action Alert from the VĆ­a Campesina in Tegucigalpa, Honduras - August 12th 2009 Last night at 11:23 pm, during curfew which began at 10pm, unknown individuals driving a cream colour Toyota , fired bullets at the office of VĆ­a Campesina in Tegucigalpa, Honduras which is coordinated by Rafael AlegrĆ­a. Above, the kind of people ViaCamp represents - women working in the field with a child! Obviously a subversive organization deserving of being shot at! The act was a clear attack against our social organizations and leaders who are part of the National Front Against the coup. In addition to the recent attack on VĆ­a Campesina, a bomb capable of killing 15 people went off in the building of the Beverage Workers Union (STIBYS, by its Spanish initials) on Ju