In Al Gore’s brand-new slideshow (premiering exclusively on TED.com), he presents evidence that the pace of climate change may be even worse than scientists were recently predicting, and challenges us to act with a sense of “generational mission” — the kind of feeling that brought forth the civil rights movement — to set it right. [...]

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Credit crunch costs ‘$1 trillion’

By Steve Schifferes
Economics reporter, BBC News

Mr Strauss-Kahn will head IMF talks in Washington.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned that potential losses from the credit crunch will reach $945bn (£472bn) and could be even higher.
The IMF says that losses are spreading from sub-prime mortgage assets [...]

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Bernanke Urges Banks to Help Borrowers More
by Jim Zarroli
All Things Considered, March 4, 2008 · Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told a roomful of bankers Tuesday that they need to do more to help troubled borrowers. Banks have been giving borrowers who are about to default more time to make payments and are renegotiating [...]

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By Robert C. Cowen, Christian Science Monitor. Posted February 11, 2008.

The Anthropocene epoch would mark the period when humans became the predominant force over the Earth’s environment.
 
Geologists wonder if they should add a new epoch to the geological time scale. They call it the Anthropocene — the epoch [...]

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Unknowns in ‘08 may hurt climate fight 6:46pm EST
LONDON (Reuters) - A stronger focus on turbulent financial markets and escalating geopolitical tension in 2008 could prompt governments and companies to neglect less immediate risks such as climate change [...]

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