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World Population Growth Good News: Asia-Pacific Fertility Rates Starting to Decline
Undeniably human population growth is at the root of pretty much every single environmental problem we currently face. At the
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7 Hidden Eco-gems: Under-the-Radar Cities Worth a Visit
Scenes from Malmö, Sweden -- a hidden green city gem -- Björn Söderqvist @ flickr. Portland, San Francisco, and New York. These three cities consistently rise to the top of U.S. and even global lists of great green cities. And while these cities,
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Singapore's Biodiversity Could Provide Potential Cures
With a paltry 5 percent of its land officially allocated to nature—and that's including golf courses—Singapore isn't exactly heralded as a hotbed of biodiversity. A local drug-discovery company, however, begs to
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Economics of Scale
The quotes below, pulled from an news article, may hint as to why the Australian government sees having about 1,400 defence force personnel in Iraq as vital to the country's national security. That's roughly 0.7% of the total troop numbers. (When
