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• The Stream, January 20: Mongolia’s Mining Boom

  
  Circle of Blue | WaterNews — Authority: 415
  Vast mineral wealth and growing demand from China are driving a huge mining boom in Mongolia, where the International Monetary Fund predicts the economy will grow an average of 14 percent a year between 2012 and 2016, The Economist reported. The rapid growth could impact the region’s aquifers. The ...
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• How will global warming negatively affect water supplies in the U.S.?

  
  Desdemona Despair: Blogging the End of the World — Authority: 123
  By Roddy Scheer and Doug Moss 15 January 2012 Q: How is it that global warming could negatively impact water supplies in the U.S.? Climate change promises to have a very big impact on water supplies in the United States as well as around the world. A recent study commissioned by the Natural Resources Defense ...
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• The Limits to Growth at forty: Is collapse now inevitable?

  
  Desdemona Despair: Blogging the End of the World — Authority: 123
  By Mícheál O’Callaghan 18 January 2012 Forty years ago, a group of Scientists investigated what the world would look like if we continued on our path of exponential economic growth, with a continued growth in population, pollution and industry. The study resulted in the publishing of the eye opening book, The ...
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• China report spells out ‘extremely grim’ climate change risks

  
  Desdemona Despair: Blogging the End of the World — Authority: 123
  By Chris Buckley; Editing by David Fogarty 17 January 2012 BEIJING (Reuters) – Global warming threatens Chinas march to prosperity by cutting crops, shrinking rivers and unleashing more droughts and floods, says the governments latest assessment of climate change, projecting big shifts in how the nation feeds ...
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• Russia warming at twice the global rate

  
  Desdemona Despair: Blogging the End of the World — Authority: 123
  Moscow, January 17 (IANS/RIA Novosti) – Temperatures in Russia in the past century rose at twice the rate of warming in the rest of the world, the emergencies ministry said. “Despite ongoing discussions in the scientific community about the nature and long-term outlook for global climate change, the fact of ...
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• Judge prevents Wisconsin town from tightening coal ash regulations

  
  Desdemona Despair: Blogging the End of the World — Authority: 123
  By Rachel Cernansky, Energy / Fossil Fuels 17 January 2012 The EPA is still deciding how to regulate coal ash , and a bill in Congress would prevent the EPA from regulating it at all. Heres a hint of what happens with weak regulations—in this case, a town is prevented from creating regulations stricter than ...
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• Global Economic Meltdown Latest: China to the Rescue!

  
  Mediolana - The Home of Weapons of Mass Instruction — Authority: 110
  World Bank chief economist Justin #Lin avers #China can grow at 8% annually for the next 20 years; details sketchy tinyurl.com/7mzhvmf — Asad Yawar (@Mediolana) January 15, 2012
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• Graph of the Day: Agricultural Systems at Risk – Human Pressure on Land and Water

  
  Desdemona Despair: Blogging the End of the World — Authority: 123
  ROME, 28 November 2011 (FAO) – Widespread degradation and deepening scarcity of land and water resources have placed a number of key food production systems around the globe at risk, posing a profound challenge to the task of feeding a world population expected to reach 9 billion people by 2050, according to a new ...
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• Geopolitical implications of ‘Peak Everything’ – U.S. is ‘an empire in decline’

  
  Desdemona Despair: Blogging the End of the World — Authority: 123
  By Richard Heinberg 10 January 2012 From competition among hunter-gatherers for wild game to imperialist wars over precious minerals, resource wars have been fought throughout history; today, however, the competition appears set to enter a new—and perhaps unprecedented—phase. As natural resources deplete, and ...
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• Will New Zealand be the first developed country to evolve a steady-state economy?

  
  Energy Bulletin - — Authority: 582
  New Zealand will inevitably make a transition to a steady-state economy. The onset of energy descent — having less and less energy to use with each passing decade — will push it to do so sooner rather than later. The critical question is whether the transition to a steady-state economy will be by design or ...
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• AGU journal highlights -- Jan. 13, 2012

  
  Science nature & education - science-nature.marc8.com — Authority: 133
  (American Geophysical Union) Featured in this release are research papers on the following topics: "Variability of North Atlantic heat transport observed from instrument data"; "Methane exceeds nitrous oxide in rivers contribution to warming"; "Waste recycling primary source of energy in deep ocean"; "Record Arctic ...
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• Review: Ubik by Philip K. Dick and The Langoliers by Stephen King

  
  Energy Bulletin - — Authority: 582
  Those concerned about the world energy situation have long been preoccupied with the second law of thermodynamics and the concept of entropy. Entropy is a measure of the energy lost as waste heat whenever energy flows from higher concentrations to lower ones, as it always does when left to itself. An oft-cited example ...
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• Premises for a New Economy

  
  Energy Bulletin - — Authority: 582
  There is considerable uncertainty about how tightly ecology constrains planetary growth. Given this uncertainty, prudence dictates a conservative approach that takes limits to growth seriously. In an ecologically constrained world, both the global North and the global South need to consider new obligations and limits. ...
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• Reality strikes back: a review of Richard Heinberg’s The End of Growth

  
  Energy Bulletin - — Authority: 582
  Heinberg’s overarching message is that the current economic downturn is not temporary and that, because we have now reached fundamental, unalterable ecological limits, economic growth is gone for good. In other words, the world is in for a permanent economic depression, as currently defined. read more
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• World oil production will decline shortly after 2015: former IEA analyst

  
  Desdemona Despair: Blogging the End of the World — Authority: 123
  Posted by JoulesBurn 5 January 2012 The following interview is a guest post by Matthieu Auzanneau, a freelance journalist living in Paris. This article previously appeared in Le Monde . Olivier Rech developed petroleum scenarios for the International Energy Agency over a three year period, up until 2009. This ...
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• Peak Copper | Red, Hot, and Running Out

  
  Arbitrage Magaine — Authority: 119
  “If the entire world (lived by) same standards as North America … (the world) would not have enough copper to meet that demand.” Red, Hot and Running Out By Saif Qureshi, Copper may seem like a boring old metal, but it’s used in many places and is quite useful in our society.  So where exactly is ...
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• Researchers: Mount Adams glaciers half gone

  
  Desdemona Despair: Blogging the End of the World — Authority: 123
  By DAVID LESTER, The Yakima Herald-Republic 8 January 2012 YAKIMA, Washington (AP) – Spectacular on a clear, sunny day, Mount Adams rises a scant 53 miles from Yakima. But the mountain holds what until now has been pretty much a secret. In the first comprehensive study of its kind, a Portland State University ...
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• A reading list for Mr. Monti

  
  Energy Bulletin - — Authority: 582
  Ive spent the last couple of weeks immersed in a pile of texts on what actuaries, physicists, and mathematicians have to say about the relationship between the economy and energy. [My homework is a talk Im giving in Philly at the end of the month at a seminar about architecture and energy.] I havent finished the talk ...
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• Sahel’s looming food crisis gets swift response but no long-term answers

  
  Desdemona Despair: Blogging the End of the World — Authority: 123
  By Mark Tran, www.guardian.co.uk 9 January 2012 Governments in the Sahel and international relief agencies have been quick off the mark in acknowledging a looming food crisis . Last October, the government in drought -hit Niger – where almost 1 million people are in urgent need of food after a poor ...
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• The Stream, January 9: China Moves Forward With South-North Water Transfer Project

  
  Circle of Blue | WaterNews — Authority: 415
  China has completed the tunnel under the Yellow River for the South-North Water Transfer Project , which will divert water from the Yangtze River Basin to thirsty cities and industries in the country’s North, Xinhua reported. Check out Circle of Blue’s photos from the construction site and more. United ...
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