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Washington, D.C.-Between 2000 and 2007, carbon emissions from fossil fuel combustion worldwide increased 22 percent to an estimated 8.2 billion tons, according to the latest Vital Signs Update
Washington, D.C.-The number of "microborrowers" worldwide-people participating in the rapidly growing field of microfinance-increased by 17 percent in 2006, benefiting both communitie
Washington, D.C.-A transition to renewable energy sources promises
significant global job gains at a time when the coal industry has been
Statement on the 20th Anniversary
of Dr. James E. Hansen's Historic
Washington, D.C.-Global nuclear power capacity grew by less than 2,000
megawatts in 2007, a figure equivalent to just one-tenth of the new wind power
Washington, D.C.-Global production of solar photovoltaic (PV) cells increased 51 percent in 2007, to 3,733 megawatts, according to the latest Vital Signs Update from th
Washington, D.C.-Unwanted
childbearing is a greater demographic force than the desire for large
families, and may have been for centuries, suggests Robert Engelman,
Washington, D.C.-Global
wind power capacity rose 27 percent in 2007 to more than 94,100
megawatts, led by capacity additions in the European Union, the United
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