Experts from the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) have warned of an impending food crisis.
With consumption exceeding supply in 6 of last 11 years food [...]
read more here... →An excellent infographic from the Guardian (Where else?). A definite must read for all Geography students.
Twenty years on from the 1992 Rio Earth summit, review the evidence [...]
read more here... →Professor McGuire from London’s UCL has recently published a book outlining how climatic change in the past has led to more earthquakes, volcanoes and tsunami.
Changes in the [...]
read more here... →After 30 years of the ‘One Child Policy’ China’s birth rate is now below replacement level. This means fewer workers to support an increasingly elderly population, and to [...]
read more here... →In the last 60 years fertility rates have dropped from 6 to 2.5 children per woman. A triumph for women’s empowerment.
UN pronouncements on future population seem to [...]
read more here... →UN estimates that world population will reach 7 billion this month. For all people on Earth this is a VERY BIG DEAL!
The population has more than [...]
read more here... →THE world’s population will reach 7 billion by the end of October, according to the latest projections from the United Nations. For the first time the UN [...]
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