Population Growth

NEW YORK, July 29 (UPI) — A U.N. panel has voted to remove the Galapagos Islands from a list of sites under environmental threat, a move criticized by environmental groups.
The U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s World Heritage Committee approved removing the islands from its list of precious sites endangered by environmental threats or [...]

LONDON, July 12 (UPI) — A major study of the world’s growing population and its possible future social and economic impacts is being launched in Britain, scientists say.
Britain’s Royal Society will conduct the study, led by by Nobel laureate Sir John Sulston, who was previously involved with the Human Genome Project, the BBC reported [...]

COLUMBUS, Ohio, April 20 (UPI) — An Ohio State University study suggests nations do not need democracy to join the online community.
The study led by Professor Edward Crenshaw and former student Kristopher Robison instead found social factors, such as population growth and especially capitalism, are much more important.
Researchers said their 12-year study focused [...]

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Dec. 17 (UPI) — A Massachusetts Institute of Technology scientist says new discoveries are moving society toward the era of “personalized solar energy.”
Professor Daniel Nocera says such an era would involve the focus of electricity production shifting from huge central generating stations to individuals in their own homes and communities.
Nocera predicts global [...]

NEW DELHI, Nov. 19 (UPI) — Indian Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh Thursday said his country would never agree to legally binding emissions and downplayed expectations for the climate-change summit in Copenhagen, Denmark, next month.
“Internationally we reject legally binding emissions. We will never agree to that, and we are prepared to be alone in our stand, [...]