United Nations News Centre - Climate change Micronesia’s biggest and continuing challenge, President tells UN debate

27 September 2012 – With climate change representing the “biggest challenge” to his country, the President of Micronesia, Emanuel Mori, speaking at the United Nations General Assembly, today urged UN Member States to confront the phenomenon “more urgently, and more creatively.”

“Our very existence depends on it,” President Mori said in his address to the 67th Assembly’s General Debate, taking place at UN Headquarters in New York.
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“How do I tell my people that their plight and their future lie in the hands of those most responsible for greenhouse gasses?” he asked.

Antarctic Seals Survive Arrival of Massive Icebergs - Technology & science - Science - LiveScience | NBC News

In years without icebergs, there is a nearly 70-percent chance a female will give birth to a pup. During the iceberg years, this dropped by about 20 percentage points, down to a 50-percent chance.

Roundabout – review | Stage | The Guardian

The pick of the trio is undoubtedly Macmillan's Lungs, a two-hander set in the near future about a couple negotiating sexual politics and climate change as they contemplate having a baby. If seven billion people is already too many for the planet, is it responsible to bring another person into the world? Particularly when having a child leaves a carbon footprint as big as flying back and forth to New York every day for seven years.

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