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UNITED NATIONS - Global population could top 15 billion by the end of the century if birth patterns are slightly greater than expected, the UN Population Fund projected. The more likely total i...

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UNITED NATIONS - Demographers at the United Nations drill deep into census data, surveys, data from UN Childrens Fund vaccination campaigns and many other sources in order to arrive at their wo...

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DEVELOPMENT - As extreme weather conditions, rising carbon emissions, unprecedented global economic crises and widening social inequalities throw the planet increasingly off balance, the world ...

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DESERTIFICATION - More than 12 million hectares of arable land are lost to desertification each year, affecting some of the worlds poorest people. The 193 nations party to the UN Convention to ...

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DEVELOPMENT - Environmental degradation has accompanied the growth of global GDP in recent decades leaving the world on a trajectory of unsustainable growth, United Nations official Rae Kwon Ch...