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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

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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Access to energy - necessary but not sufficient to cut poverty

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

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Megan Rowling
Water-short world will need 'more crop per drop' - experts
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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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Hydropower 'could supply Africa's entire power needs'

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Alecia D. McKenzie
Hydropower 'could supply Africa's entire power needs'
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[MARSEILLES] Hydropower could supply all of Africa's electricity needs if cross-border cooperation was stepped up, according to a UN report launched last week (12 March) at the World Water Forum in Marseilles, France.

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Report: Water shortages increasingly will offer new weapons for states, terror groups

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Karen DeYoung
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Fresh-water shortages and more droughts and floods will increase the likelihood that water will be used as a weapon between states or to further terrorist aims in key strategic areas, including the Middle East, South Asia and North Africa, a U.S. intelligence assessment released Thursday said.

Although “water-related state conflict” is unlikely in the next 10 years, the assessment said, continued shortages after that might begin to affect U.S. national security interests.

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