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Ben Shepard (w. glasses), Kent Corbell (back), Alice Lee (back) Nyhl Henson and Donna Laurence working on global communication issues.

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Averill Strasser, Jacky Chan (hidden), Anne Tolch, Lisa Pierce (seated) and Dewayne Hendricks discussing water issues.

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Big Trends - in the Nuclear Industry?

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03/28/12

Fukishima, San Onofre, Iraq and North Korea: What's going on in the Nuclear Industry?

Fifty world leaders are meeting in South Korea this week to assess nuclear proliferation and securing nuclear waste. The US and Russia still have thousands of warheads, and nuclear power plants are building again in India, Vietnam, China and others -- in spite of recent accidents.

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Banking against Doomsday

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Gene banks represent an overdue push to preserve crop biodiversity. It also needs conserving on farms

WITH a heavy clunk, the steel outer doors of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault closed on February 28th, shutting out a howling Arctic gale and entombing a tonne of new arrivals: 25,000 seed samples from America, Colombia, Costa Rica, Tajikistan, Armenia and Syria. For Cary Fowler, the vault’s American architect, the Syrian chickpeas and fava beans were especially welcome.

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http://www.economist.com/node/21549931

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Access to energy - necessary but not sufficient to cut poverty

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Rachel Cernansky
Access to energy - necessary but not sufficient to cut poverty
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The UN estimates that 1.4 billion people have no access to electricity, hurting their ability to earn a living or educate their children. But connecting to an electric grid may not be the only solution.

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http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Making-a-difference/Change-Agent/2012/0320/Access-to-energy-necessary-but-not-sufficient-to-cut-poverty

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Water-short world will need 'more crop per drop' - experts

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Megan Rowling
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MARSEILLE, France (AlertNet) - Water must be used more efficiently and its waste reduced if the world is to meet rising food demand from a fast-expanding population amid the pressures of climate change, experts have said ahead of World Water Day.

Marked each year on March 22, the United Nations hopes the 2012 event will focus attention on water's critical role in feeding the world.

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http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/water-short-world-will-need-more-crop-per-drop-experts

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