The amount of proven oil reserves awaiting to be exploited fell last year for the first time in a decade, according to new figures released today. The amount of crude left in the ground was 1.258trn barrels – 3bn less than this time last year. http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2009/jun/10/oil
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Are we running out of oil? The world in energy statistics
Published October 20, 2009 Energy Leave a Comment
China has begun to resettle 330,000 people to make way for a project to divert water from the south of the country to the north, state media say. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/8314447.stm
The extraordinary true story of a Malawian teenager who transformed his village by building electric windmills out of junk is the subject of a new book, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind.
Self-taught William Kamkwamba has been feted by climate change campaigners like Al Gore and business leaders the world over.
His against-all-odds achievements are all the more remarkable considering he was forced to quit school aged 14 because his family could no longer afford the $80-a-year (£50) fees.
A multi-billion-dollar project to divert water from southern China to the arid north is already four years behind schedule.
The news comes as parts of northern and central China struggle to cope with severe drought.
Officials recently admitted that water would not flow along the project’s central route – a total of three are planned – until 2014
West Somerset has the highest average age in the UK at 52, with almost three in 10 people there aged over 65, a population survey has revealed. The figure could reach 56 by 2018 as people continue to retire to the coast. North Norfolk comes next at almost 51, followed by Rother, Christchurch and East Dorset on the south coast, the Office for National Statistics says.
At least 75 people are dead and thousands are trapped under rubble after a strong earthquake shook western Indonesia, officials say.
Buildings, including at least two hospitals, were brought down by the 7.6 magnitude quake, centred about 50km (30 miles) off the coast of Sumatra.
