Seven Billion People Are Not The Issue: Human Sustainable Development Is What Counts
As the global media speculate on the number of people likely to inhabit the planet on October 31 an international team of population and development experts argue that it is not simply the number of people that matters but more so their distribution by age, education, health status and location that is most relevant to local and global sustainability.
Continuous Rising Waters Prompt Large Scale Evacuation In Bangkok, Thailand
Residents fled Thailand’s capital, Bangkok, on Thursday after authorities warned the city would soon be flooded and called a special five-day holiday to let people escape.
El Hierro Submarine Eruption
Off the coast of El Hierro, in the southwest reaches of the Canary Islands, Earth has been spewing gas and rock into the ocean. The island off the Atlantic coast of North Africa, built mostly from a shield volcano—has been rocked by thousands of tremors and earthquakes since July 2011, and an underwater volcanic eruption started in mid-October.
Seven Billion And Counting
How is the changing global population affecting people’s daily lives? With the UN set to announce that there are now seven billion people on the planet, BBC News reporters spoke to seven people from around the world to hear their stories.
Ancient Art Supplies Found In South African Cave
Researchers in South Africa have discovered what may have been the world’s earliest artist’s studio. A 100,000-year-old workshop used to mix and store the reddish pigment ochre has been discovered in Blombos Cave on the rugged southern coast near Cape Town. At the same site, scientists have found some of the earliest sharp stone tools, as well as evidence of fishing.
What Created Earth’s Oceans? Comet Offers New Clue
New evidence supports the theory that comets delivered a significant portion of Earth’s oceans, which scientists believe formed about 8 million years after the planet itself.
Ancient Cave Paintings in Peril Again, Scientists Say
At least 14,000 years ago, artists took to Altamira cave, in Northern coastal Spain, with charcoal and red pigments, painting bison, deer and their own handprints on the rock walls and ceiling. This prehistoric art gallery is now closed to the public, but plans to reopen it have scientists raising the alarm.
Ocean-Island Landslide At Tenerife: Onshore Record And Long-Term Effects
Volcanologists have uncovered one of the world’s best-preserved accessible onshore remains of a monstrous landslide that followed a huge volcanic eruption on the Canarian island of Tenerife. Tsunamis generated from such events may travel to devastate coastlines thousands of miles away.
NASA Leads Study of Unprecedented Arctic Ozone Loss
An ozone hole five times the size of California opened over the Arctic this spring, matching ozone loss over Antarctica for the first time on record, scientists said on Sunday.