Is the earth running out of food? That’s what scientists warned if the world leaders don’t act now and negotiate food security policies at this week’s Climate Change talks in Cancun, reports the New Zealand Herald.
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Hey, NASA: We Need a New Planet
Get your spacesuits ready. A study conducted by the World Wildlife Fund shows that humans’ demand on our biosphere (using resources like water and trees) has doubled since the 1960s. If we keep going at this rate, we’ll have to …
Wannabe Astronauts Pretend Utah is Mars
Is Utah the new Mars? For Martian lovers who don’t want to wait for NASA to schedule its first Martian envoy, it just might be.
Worried About the Environment? Then You Should Probably Let Your Lawn Die
That’s the conclusion of Laura Vanderkam, who notes that there are 21 million acres of grass in the U.S. that wouldn’t exist without the aid of human labor, water supplies, and pesticides. (Via USA Today)
Quotes: Stephen Hawking on Colonizing Other Planets
“I believe that the long-term future of the human race must be in space.”
— STEPHEN HAWKING, arguing that it is nearly impossible for Earth to avoid disaster within the next few hundred years, and therefore the human race …