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Oil Consumption Hits All-Time High

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Economic Recession a Blip on Oil Consumption’s Upward Climb

World Consumed 87.4 Million Barrels Per Day in 2010

Washington, D.C. - Global oil consumption reached an all-time high of 87.4 million barrels per day in 2010, according to a new Vital Signs Online report from the Worldwatch Institute. The 3.1 percent increase more than makes up for the brief decline in consumption caused by the economic crisis.

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http://www.worldwatch.org/oil-consumption-hits-all-time-high

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Clean Energy Top Priority, U.N. Chief Tells NREL

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Bill Scanlon
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Providing clean, renewable energy to the 1.4 billion people who are living without electricity is the No. 1 priority of the United Nations, the secretary general of the U.N. said during a visit Aug. 24 to the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory.

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http://pro.energycentral.com/professional/news/power/news_share_article.cfm?id=21309536

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Time to Start Work on a Panic Button?

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JUSTIN GILLIS
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For two decades, the world’s governments have failed to meet their own commitment to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide, the main heat-trapping gas. As frustration builds among scientists, some of them have begun to argue for research on a potential last-ditch option in case global warming starts to get out of control. It is called geoengineering — or directly manipulating the Earth’s climate.

The idea sounds like science fiction, but it is not.

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http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/25/time-to-start-work-on-a-panic-button/

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Climate cycles linked to civil war, analysis shows

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Damian Carrington
Climate cycles linked to civil war, analysis shows
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Changes in the global climate that cut food production triggered one-fifth of civil conflicts between 1950 and 2004

Cyclical climatic changes double the risk of civil wars, with analysis showing that 50 of 250 conflicts between 1950 and 2004 were triggered by the El Niño cycle, according to scientists.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/aug/24/el-nino-cycle-deadly-conflict

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Counting the Earth's living riches is a landmark moment

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Damian Carrington
Counting the Earth's living riches is a landmark moment
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Moths, cicadas, and other insects attracted to a backlit sheet in the rainforest of Peru in 2008. Most of the 75% of all species that live in land are insects. Photograph: Gerry Bishop/Corbis

Some numbers are fundamental and iconic: think pi in mathematics and the speed of light in physics. They provide a cornerstone upon which a vast edifice of science can be built, leading ultimately to much of our prosperity and wellbeing.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/damian-carrington-blog/2011/aug/23/biodiversity-earth-species-number

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Return to London please, via Moscow: Kremlin paves way for East to West rail link after after 'approving' $99bn Bering Strait tunnel

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Wil Longbottom
Return to London please, via Moscow: Kremlin paves way for East to West rail lin
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  • Trip of a lifetime would take the best part of three weeks through picturesque Alaska and Siberia
  • Russia set to complete extension of rail network to tip of Siberia by 2030
  • $99 billion plan would see 65-mile tunnel bored under Bering Strait and linking East and West

The prospect of an epic train journey from New York to London might seem like a distant dream for those seeking the ultimate railway holiday.

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2028854/99bn-Bering-Strait-tunnel-approved-Kremlin-paves-way-East-West-rail-link.html

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World humanitarian day: which countries gave the most aid and who received the most?

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Sarah Marsh
World humanitarian day: which countries gave the most aid and who received the m
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On World humanitarian day we look at countries who give aid and those that are in need

World humanitarian day celebrates people who help others - the aid workers who risk their lives to support people in great need.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2011/aug/19/humanitarian-development-data

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Pakistan May Be Standing in Way of Polio's Eradication

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Uri Friedman
Pakistan May Be Standing in Way of Polio's Eradication
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Several Pakistani news outlets today are dissecting a troubling finding from the U.N. Children's Fund: the 63 cases of polio diagnosed in the country so far this year are nearly double the 36 detected during the same period last year. The highly contagious viral disease, which attacks the nervous system and can cause paralysis or even death, is most evident in the province of Balochistan and has now spread to other areas that haven't been infected for the past five years.

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http://www.theatlanticwire.com/global/2011/08/pakistan-may-be-standing-way-polios-eradication/41091/

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