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Drinking Water Shortages Plague Pakistan Region
Posted by Inter Press Service: Ashfaq Yusufzai on November 15th, 2015
Inter Press Service: "We have to purchase water from the municipalities for our daily use. The water column has gone too deep and it is hard to pump out the commodity," said Muhammad Shakir, a resident of Hayatabad, an upscale town in Peshawar, the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP).
The situation isn't showing any sign of improvement and is going from bad to worse, as increasingly the children don't to schools and colleges due to non-availability of water, he says.
Shakir, a businessman says the matter has been...
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Bernie Absolutely Right: Climate Change Makes Terrorism Worse
Posted by Slate: Eric Holthaus on November 15th, 2015
Slate: At Saturday night's second Democratic presidential debate, just a day after ISIS launched horrific coordinated terrorist attacks in Paris, moderator and Slate political columnist John Dickerson asked Bernie Sanders a straightforward question: "Sen. Sanders, you said you want to rid the planet of ISIS. In the previous debate you said the greatest threat to national security was climate change. Do you still believe that?'
Sanders didn't hesitate: "Absolutely.'
On Twitter, David Axelrod—the architect...
Sanders doubles down: ‘Climate change is directly related to the rise of global terrorism’
Posted by Politico: Nick Gass on November 15th, 2015
Politico: Bernie Sanders stood by his remark from the last Democratic debate in which he called climate change the greatest threat to national security, a day after the deadliest attack on French soil since the end of World War II. "Absolutely. In fact, climate change is directly related to the rise of global terrorism," he said. "This is what the CIA says," he went on to say, noting a struggle for limited resources like water and land. During the October debate, Sanders explained it in a different context....
Building with nature: Ecological design for next-generation cities
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on November 15th, 2015
ScienceDaily: The Ecological Society of America turns 100 this year, with many reflections on the achievements of the discipline and the big questions for ecologists as we embark on a new century marked by great environmental upheaval. ESA's journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment celebrates the centennial of the society with perspectives on the potential for ecological science to influence the design of the next generation cities and their infrastructure. The November 2015 Special Issue on Innovations...
A difficult choice on balance of nature on Isle Royale
Posted by Detroit Free Press: TODD SPANGLER on November 15th, 2015
Detroit Free Press: From new vehicle fuel standards and higher renewable energy targets to controversial plans to limit greenhouse gas emissions on coal-fired power plants, the Obama administration - in its words - has been "leading global efforts to address the threat of climate change."
Those sweeping efforts, however, have done nothing so far to save a small, dwindling, treasured pack of gray wolves on a remote Michigan island, presumably due federal protection as a threatened species and guaranteed sanctuary...