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  • August 2008

    • America's Fastest-Dying Cities

      Forbes  |  Aug 12, 08 7:30 PM CDT

      America's Fastest-Dying Cities

      (Newser) - America’s Rust Belt continues to corrode a little more each day, reports Forbes in its analysis of the nation’s fastest-dying cities. Cities in Ohio and Michigan take 6 of the top 10 spots in the survey, which is based on population flight and unemployment: Canton, Ohio Youngstown, Ohio Flint, Mich. Scranton, Pa. Dayton, Ohio More »

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      General Motors  • Ford  • Ohio  • Michigan  • Cleveland  • urban poverty  • human population  • Dayton, Ohio  • Canton, Ohio

  • June 2008

    • World Pop. to Hit 7B by 2012

      Associated Press  |  Jun 20, 08 2:37 AM CDT

      World Pop. to Hit 7B by 2012

      (Newser) - The world's soaring population is expected to hit 7 billion by 2012, further straining thinly stretched natural resources, AP reports. The current population is 6.7 billion, and growing at 1.2% a year, spurred by increasing medical and nutritional advances in developing countries. But as more women in developing nations join the work force, the growth rate is expected to slow—eventually to .5% by 2050. More »

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      China  • India  • immigration  • Census Bureau  • overpopulation  • human population  • Brookings Institution

    • Phone Data Used to Map Human Activity

      BBC  |  Jun 4, 08 3:41 PM CDT

      Phone Data Used to Map Human Activity

      (Newser) - Researchers using mobile-phone data to study patterns of human movement find that we're quite creatures of habit, the BBC reports. The 100,000 randomly selected subjects—outside the US, where such tracking would be illegal, the AP notes—remained mostly in the same small area, traveling less than 6½ miles daily, with few going more than 50 miles on a regular basis. More »

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      cell phones  • research  • economics  • population  • avian flu  • human population

  • May 2008

    • Cougar's Long Trek to Chicago May Tell Tale

      Chicago Tribune  |  May 1, 08 11:03 AM CDT

      Cougar's Long Trek to Chicago May Tell Tale

      (Newser) - A cougar shot April 14 in Chicago was spotted earlier in Wisconsin, DNA tests show, suggesting an epic trek. Now, scientists are eager to study the animal, hoping to learn more about how and why it migrated; they aim to pin down its ancestry in an effort to better understand how animals like it adjust to human populations, the Chicago Tribune reports. More »

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      Chicago  • science  • Wisconsin  • migration  • biology  • South Dakota  • overpopulation  • human population  • cougar

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