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Eradicating poverty, stabilizing population:
Global priorities
The 21st century began on an inspiring note when the countries
that belong to the United Nations adopted the goal of cutting
the number of people living in poverty in half by 2015.
And as of 2005, the world is ahead of schedule for reaching
this goal. Two big reasons are China and India. China’s
economic growth of 9 percent a year over the last quarter-century
and India’s acceleration to close to 6 percent a
year over the last decade are together lifting hundreds
of millions out of poverty. [More]
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Earth Talk:
Drift netting strip mines the oceans
Dear EarthTalk: Is it true that
some commercial fishing nets are 40 miles long? I heard
a TV commentator accuse fishing
fleets of “strip-mining the oceans.” If their
nets are really that large, it certainly sounds like that’s
what is happening!
— B. Johnson, Port Chester, NY [More]
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A Striped Dolphin caught in a driftnet in the Northeast Atlantic
Ocean.
Getty Images photo courtesy EarthTalk |
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Aloha
from OI:
Micronutrient content
in aquatic feeds examined
Nutrients, substances that are used by an organism’s
metabolism, can be classified into macronutrients and micronutrients. [More] |
Lytha Conquest and Dr. Zhi Yong Ju.
Courtesy OI |
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