Doomsday Vault Protects World’s Seeds on “60 Minutes”

Posted by Matt in June 5th, 2008 | no comment

Published in Off-Topic, 60 Minutes, Agricultural Production, Arctic Mountain, Centuries, climate change, Contingencies, Diversity, Doomsday Vault, Doors, Global Level, global warming, Man Made Disaster, Map, Multicultural Diversity, Norway, Seeds, Signs, Spitsbergen, Vault Doors, Worst Case Scenarios, Zoom

Svalbard Global Seed Vault opened its doors on February 26, 2008 to the world.
This ‘Doomsday Vault’ is part of an effort to protect the planet’s diminishing biodiversity.
The facility was dug deep into the frozen rock of an Arctic mountain on Spitsbergen, one of 3 Arpichelago Islands in Norway. Any seeds stored here will be secure [...]

Report Sees Decade of High Food Prices

Posted by Matt in May 29th, 2008 | no comment

Published in Economy, general, Agricultural Production, Andrew Martin, Angel Gurria, Anticipation, climate change, Crop And Food, Crop Yields, Drought, Farm Crops, Food Crisis, Food Prices, Fundamental Changes, Global Agriculture, Global Summit, High Food Prices, New York Times, Next Decade, Secretary General, Spike, United Nations, Urgent Measures, Weather Conditions, World Leaders

The United Nations report, the global agriculture outlook through 2017, said prices for farm crops will remain substantially higher over the next decade because of fundamental changes in demand, though they will gradually decline from current highs.
Because the recent spike in crop and food prices has been caused in part by temporary factors like drought, [...]

Pakistan-India: Ten years of the Bomb

Posted by Matt in May 16th, 2008 | no comment

Published in India, Nuclear, Pakistan, Agricultural Production, Atmosphere, Bomb, Casualties, Climate Models, Decade, Famine, Imagination, India And Pakistan, India Pakistan, Land Surface, Military Planners, Nuclear War, Nuclear Weapons Material, Pakistan India, plutonium, Policymakers, Political Leaders, Rainfall, Uranium

Their political leaders and military planners seem impervious to the fact that a war between Pakistan and India in which each used only five of their nuclear weapons on the other’s cities could kill several million people and injure many more. The effects of a nuclear war could be much worse if India and Pakistan [...]

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Doomsday Vault Protects World’s Seeds on “60 Minutes”

Report Sees Decade of High Food Prices

Pakistan-India: Ten years of the Bomb

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