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International Botanical Congress Statement on Biodiversity
The paper states ... we are living in an era when our great-grandchildren may live in a world in which more than half of the plant species that exist now will be known only as specimens," said Raven. 4. Place ...
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June Cotner Myrwang - Shared Parenting/Shared Providing
I find this time lag a little unfortunate for the children involved ... perhaps even her husband. She may also manage and orchestrate the couple's social engagements. The second benefit women may perceive when the father is the sole-provider is that the children are ...
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Yellowstone Fires
Like today, many of the wildland fires were caused by lightning. In the first half of the twentieth century, most park managers and visitors considered the fires to be destructive to the ... Service had a general policy of putting out all fires on national park lands. In the second half of the century, managers of national parks and forests began to understand the importance of ...
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Equity Watch - Global Environmental Government Unit - Centre for Science and Environment (CSE)
By the second half of the 21st century, precipitation may have increased over northern mid-to-high latitudes and ... due to land use change, especially deforestation. Currently, the ocean and the land together absorb about half of carbon dioxide emissions from human activities. As carbon dioxide concentration increases, ocean and land ...
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Eco-Economy Indicators: WATER RESOURCES - World's Water Resources Face Mounting Pressure
WORLD’S WATER RESOURCES FACE MOUNTING PRESSURE Elizabeth Mygatt Global freshwater use tripled during the second half of the twentieth century as population more than doubled and as technological advances let ... overexploited in major food-producing regions, including the North China Plain, a region that yields half of China’s wheat and one third of its corn; Punjab, Haryana, and other highly ...
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Pirate Utopias (Do or Die)
[IMAGE] "a dunghill wheron England doth cast forth its rubbish" The Caribbean islands in the second half of the 17th century were a melting pot of rebellious and pauperised immigrants from across the ... the Morning Star had "a Negro Cook doubly arm'd" in the boarding party and more than half of Edward Condent's boarding party on the Dragon were black. Some black pirates became quartermasters or ...
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Our Bodies, Our Lives! (Do or Die)
An article from Do or Die Issue 10. In the paper edition, this article appears on page(s) 183-184. Our Bodies, Our Lives! Feminist Health, Healing and Herbs As part of the movement for women's liberation in the second half of the 20th century, women came together to question the way a medical elite has controlled and defined women's health and disease. ...
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Seabirds at Sea Team Report
The second half was dominated by final consultation stages of the Falkland Islands Nation Plan of Action- ... use of tori lines has become mandatory under licensing requirements for finfish vessels for the second season of 2004. This represents a unique opportunity to ensure the fleet wide adoption of ...
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Eco-Economy Indicators: TEMPERATURE - 2007 SECOND WARMEST YEAR ON RECORD
August was also a record for that month and September was the second warmest September recorded. Looking at the northern hemisphere alone, 2007 temperatures averaged 15.04 degrees ... Niño conditions in the southern Pacific tend to increase the global average temperature, and yet the second half of 2007 saw the opposite develop—a La Niña, which would usually depress global ...
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2007 SECOND WARMEST YEAR ON RECORD
August was also a record for that month and September was the second warmest September recorded. Looking at the northern hemisphere alone, 2007 temperatures averaged 15.04 degrees ... conditions in the southern Pacific tend to increase the global average temperature, and yet the second half of 2007 saw the opposite developa La Nia, which would usually depress global temperature. ...
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