Cross posted from Worldwatch Institute’s Nourishing the Planet. Fishing is a critical means of providing food, livelihood, trade, and economic growth in many developing countries-as well as the United States. In many small island developing nations and coastal countries – such as Bangladesh, Sierra Leone, and Ghana – fish provide at least 50 percent of […]
Africa: Local financing of oil and gas industry
www.afripol.org strategist@afripol.org Oil and gas industry is large capital intensive that requires enormous resources for its finance, management and operation. The inability of local banks in Nigeria and south of Sahara to finance massive oil and gas projects are not news anymore. The capitalization of banks in Africa is quite low to engage in […]
Obama’s Weekly YouTube Address: We Must Lead in Science
To the relief of many in the scientific and research community, President-Elect Barack Obama today stated his commitment to re-establishing the United States as a leader in science and technology. He also announced members of his science and technology team. He emphasized the importance of research into global climate change, medicine and 21st century technological […]
Thinning Ozone Layer Signals Environmental Destruction
Scientist and environmentalists from around the world are worried about the rapid deterioration of the ozone layer. Likewise the hole in our thinning ozone layer is getting bigger everyday which means that nothing much is being done to at least neutralize its alarming rate of depletion. Ozone layer is a protective shield or layer found […]
Economic Woes Hit Bluffton, SC as Election Approaches
Bluffton, South Carolina is unique among most towns it size in the United States. In the past, the town’s economy relied on either agriculture or from the shrimp and oysters in the nearby rivers and creeks that feed into the Atlantic Ocean. Because Bluffton is located between Beaufort and Hilton Head Island, the once […]
Global warming danger of the earth.
Global warming is the increase in the average measured temperature of the Earth’s near-surface air and oceans since the mid-twentieth century, and its projected continuation. The time period for which reasonably reliable near-surface temperature records exist from actual observations from thermometers with quasi-global coverage is generally considered to start in about 1850 – […]
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