Population in the News

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Population News Tuesday December 26th 2006

Florida's population growth declines
(Turks.US: Sat, 23 Dec) During the previous year, Florida was one of the fast-growing cities in the world, it being 4th on the list. However, this year, it fell to 9th as its population growth slides down to 1.8%, according to a U.S. Census report.

Poverty becomes a cold reality in wealthy Japan
(Moldova.org: Mon, 25 Dec) Tokyo (dpa) - Japan's economic growth has enjoyed the longest expansion since the World War II, but not everyone is smiling amid the economic recovery. Kaori Murano (not her real name) may be in a minority, but others like her in Japan's emerging community of urban poor are not benefiting from the distribution of wealth and clinging onto what they can scrape together every day. The single mother ...

World news
(The West Australian: Mon, 25 Dec) Bluefin tuna stocks in the Pacific could be hit seriously by the end of this century if global warming progresses at the current pace, researchers say.

Southern growth leads USA
(USA Today: Fri, 22 Dec) The South is rising again, this time as a population magnet for immigrants who come for the same reasons that pull Americans there from other states: the warm climate, jobs and cheaper housing, according to an analysis of Census estimates out Friday.

NASA Diagnoses Tropical Storm Gert's Growth Spurt
(Science Daily: Sat, 23 Dec) Scientists present findings from a 2005 field campaign during which they flew over Tropical Storm Gert to look at the storm inside and out to determine how Gert evolved. Presentation (poster A13A-0882) at the American Geophysical Union meeting, at 4:40 p.m. EST, Dec. 11.

Climate Change Clash In Africa
(CBS News: Sat, 23 Dec) As elsewhere in Africa, the population in eastern Uganda continues to grow as the environment deteriorates, putting added pressure on land that grows ever drier. When resources get scarce, conflict increases, experts say.

Complexity constrains evolution of human brain genes
(EurekAlert!: Tue, 26 Dec) Despite the explosive growth in size and complexity of the human brain, the pace of evolutionary change among the thousands of genes expressed in brain tissue has actually slowed since the split, millions of years ago, between human and chimpanzee, an international research team reports in the December 26, 2006, issue of the journal, PLOS Biology.

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