UN: Fight climate change with free condoms

The battle against global warming could be helped if the world slowed population growth by making free condoms and family planning advice more widely available, the U.N. Population Fund said Wednesday.

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Older Population to More Than Double

Rapid growth in the nation's older population is likely to put huge pressure on the cost of government safety-net programs, even though the rise of immigrants is helping to increase the total of working-age people, a report said.

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EXCERPT: Genetic evidence is revealing that human populations began to expand in size in Africa during the Late Stone Age approximately 40,000 years ago. A research team led by Michael F.

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In recent years, Seattle has grown at a fast clip. The city's population is pushing 600,000. It's not due to the birthrate — in fact, the Pacific Northwest has one of the lowest in the country and Seattle one of the highest percentages of childless households of any major U.S.

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What kind of world are we leaving our children?

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SYDNEY'S rental squeeze has hit a new low with desperate tenants vying for only 739 available rental properties on the market across the whole of the city yesterday.

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STOP USING WATER!!! THERE IS NONE LEFT!!! We have two rivers flowing through Sacramento and our area, yet because of allocations to Southern California, the residents are asked to cut water usage. So, the county says to slow water usage.

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The Bush administration is preparing to ease the way for the nation's largest private landowner to convert hundreds of thousands of acres of mountain forestland to residential subdivisions. The deal was struck behind closed doors between Mark E.

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My college students will have to unplug the cell phones and iPods from their ears and figure out to live, survive, even prosper in a nation that at least one researcher says will triple in population in their lifetimes.

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Four Texas metropolitan areas were among the biggest population gainers as Americans continued their trend of moving to the Sun Belt in 2006 and 2007, according to Census Bureau estimates to be released Thursday.

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Water shortage is one of the critical challenges facing human society. The March 20th issue of Nature has a cover story on the subject, and this article surveys some of the topics.

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Electricity rates are going up in British Columbia, but Premier Gordon Campbell said on Thursday that the provincial government wants to ensure that higher rates don't rob B.C.

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A s people who care about the legacy of the Pacific Northwest, we all share responsibility to support renewable energy. At the same time, we have a responsibility to protect national treasures.

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Canada's westernmost province plans to recruit its vast forests to help in the battle against climate change, with the goal of no net deforestation by 2015, British Columbia said on Tuesday. The province will also use its planned Pacific Carbon Trust to offer carbon offsets for  …

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Lake mead may go dry in coming decades

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As if voters had tossed a match into the fireworks box in passing Measure 49, land-use lawsuits, court decisions and county ordinances are popping all over.

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And by economy, I mean economic growth. And by stupid, I mean politicians and others who preach that a continuously growing economy is the only way. And by the headline in toto, I mean most of us are stupid.

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About 3,200 people turned out tonight at the University of Portland to show lawmakers that voters, especially young voters, want action to curb global warming.

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Many of the state's largest industries testified here Wednesday that they are willing to support - with reservations - landmark legislation requiring them to measure and report greenhouse gas emissions, join a national registry of polluters, and live with new statewide emission l …

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British geologists suggest humans have so changed the Earth that the planet has ended its Holocene era and has entered a new epoch -- the Anthropocene. Jan Zalasiewicz and colleagues at the University of Leicester said Nobel Prize-winning chemist Paul Crutzen, in 2002, suggested …

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Recent research by scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the University of California, Merced and the National Center for Atmospheric Research shows that California temperatures have jumped statewide by more than 2.1 degrees Fahrenheit between 1915 and 2000.

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The preservation of coastal ecosystem services -- such as clean water, storm buffers or fisheries protection -- does not have to be an all-or-nothing approach, a new study indicates, and a better understanding of how ecosystems actually respond to protection efforts in a "nonline …

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Washington is poised to take a regional and national leadership role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. At the same time, the state has begun preparing for climate change impacts that experts say are coming regardless of what the state does to reduce its carbon footprint. Th …

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The BC government's ambitious $14-billion vision for transit improvements hinges largely on being able to attract private-sector partners - a plan critics are not very pleased about. The 12-year plan calls for building or expanding rapid-transit lines in metro Vancouver, Victori …

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Members of a task force that had begun reviewing Oregon's land-use planning system hope an upcoming session of the Legislature will restore the focus and funding they need to complete their work.

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More than two years have gone by, but it still galls Joe Peck that he was ordered to shut off water to the whole city of Roslyn while the owners of the new, supersized homes just out of town got to keep watering their lawns. The big drought of 2005 was fast drying up the Yakima  …

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The Capital Regional District deserves praise for acting so quickly to freeze most development along the Island's southwest coast.

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