You may recall the Business Insider scoop from December 2010, And Now Presenting: Amazing Satellite Images Of The Ghost Cities Of China. Here’s their follow-up gallery, with more beautiful imagery of doomed architecture viewed from space. By Gus Lubin16 June 2011 China plans to build 20 cities a year for the next 20 years. […]
By David Sheen 8 July 2011 The neo-liberal global economic system is on its deathbed, and Israel may soon have to provide for all of its own food and fuel needs, instead of trading for them with other countries, says a senior Israel agronomist. Dr. Elaine Soloway of the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies at […]
By Matt Mushalik30 June 2011 Still looking for a 2nd Sydney airport? Want to spend millions on consultants? You can have it easier than that. Find out about the latest peak oil ignorant airport project by just typing 3 words on the internet: “Ciudad Real Airport”, formerly known as Don Quijote or Madrid South Airport, […]
By RAPHAEL MINDER24 June 2011 MADRID — In March, local officials inaugurated a new airport in Castellón, a small city on Spain’s Mediterranean coast. They are still waiting for the first scheduled flight. To justify the grand opening, Carlos Fabra, the head of Castellón’s provincial government, argued that it was a unique opportunity to turn […]
By Steve Kanigher24 June 2011 It wasn’t long ago that hotels, high-rise condominiums and massive retail and office complexes sprang up in Southern Nevada seemingly faster than one could drive from one end of the valley to the other. Take that same drive today, though, and you’ll likely see vestiges of the Great Recession: partially […]
By Peter Huck27 June 2011 This month, as the US reeled from some very nasty weather – floods in Mississippi, drought in Texas, tornadoes in the Midwest – the New York Times got right down to brass tacks: given damage to property, crops and lost business, how much would insurers have to fork out? Ten […]
By Ashwini Shrivastava 26 Jun 2011 Leh (PTI) – Ten months after a deadly natural disaster claimed over 250 lives, relief and rehabilitation work being carried out by the authorities here is hitting a roadblock– due to paucity of funds. Piles of mud and stone are still lying at Choglumsar, which bore the major brunt […]
Berlin, June 21, 2011 (AFP) – Munich Re stated that deadly weather catastrophes in China had soared around four-fold in the last 30 years, costing its economy billions. Munich Re said in a report that the number of annual disasters including violent storms, floods, extreme temperatures, droughts and forest fires had risen to about 48 […]
By Kirsten Boyd Johnson23 June 2011 WHOOPS: Georgia’s legal promise to crucify any illegal immigrants it could get its hands on did, in fact, have the intended effect of scaring away the state’s undocumented workers. So, lo and behold, there are no workers left to harvest all of the state’s crops. Is America ready for […]
By Tony Capaccio21 June 2011 The Pentagon says it has spent at least $1 trillion prosecuting the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and defending the U.S. homeland, according to newly released Defense Department figures through April 30. Spending growth on Afghanistan operations helped push the Pentagon over the $1 trillion mark, increasing to $6.2 billion […]
