geonews
A $95,000 question: Why are whites five times richer than blacks in the US?


Racial descimination and Economic policies that favour the weathy blamed for Americas White/Black divide.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/may/17/white-people-95000-richer-black

18th May 2010 Inequality, Race issues
Boscombe Surf Reef Not Working!


 
The performance of Boscombe's £3m artificial surf reef since it opened has been sub-standard, Bournemouth Borough Council has confirmed.
The findings came from experts at Plymouth University who assessed the quality of waves enhanced by the underwater creation over six months.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/dorset/8688693.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_8688000/8688744.stm?ls
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/may/18/artificial-surf-reef-wrong-waves
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/surfing/7736942/Council-adm...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8688696.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/8338927.stm
 

18th May 2010 Rebranding, Regeneration, Surf Reef
Will the World Cup change South Africa?


Former South African president Thabo Mbeki predicted the 2010 World Cup would be the moment when the African continent "turned the tide on centuries of poverty and conflict". It was a grand claim from a man of poetry as well as politics. But with one month to go to Africa's first World Cup, it is evident that such ambitions were never likely to be fulfilled by a sports event, no matter how big and how lucrative.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/davidbond/2010/05/will_the_world_cup_change_sout.html
 
 

25th May 2010 Rebranding, Regeneration, Sport, World Cup 2010
For want of a drink - a special report on water


 
Finite, vital, much wanted, little understood, water looks unmanageable. But it needn’t be, argues John Grimond
 
http://www.economist.com/opinion/displaystory.cfm?story_id=16136302

25th May 2010 drought, Pollution, Water
Indonesia to postpone deforestation for 2 years
28th May 2010 Deforestation
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