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World Watch articles from January 1996
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World Watch archives from January 1996
Ozone repair.(Environmental Intelligence)
January 1, 1996... Ozone Repair: The effort to heal the atmosphere's ozone layer recently received an important political boost, as well as some constructive criticism. Last October, the Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded to the three scientists whose work...
Power shock: the next energy revolution.
January 1, 1996... We live in a futuristic world of cyberspace, genetic engineering and other mind-boggling technologies. Yet when it comes to energy, most experts seem to think that our decades-old oil- and coal-based energy systems will barely change....
Russia's population sink.
January 1, 1996... In the former heart of the Soviet empire, deaths are far outpacing-births.
In Nadvoitsy, a small Russian town near the Finnish border, an estimated 4,000 children have been poisoned by fluoride, which replaces calcium in the body, leaving its...
A billion cars: the road ahead.
January 1, 1996... People in Asia, Latin America, and Eastern Europe want cars just as much as Americans do. The skyrocketing demand is raising hopes, hackles, and questions about sustainability.
At the mid-point of the 20th century, when there were 2.6 billion...
When Corporations Rule the World.
January 1, 1996... The specter of economic insecurity haunts a growing portion of the world's people. In industrialized countries, workers are seeing their job opportunities decline and their incomes erode. The median income in the United States has dropped by 4.6...