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On average, UK households waste £96 million worth of energy every week. The average household wastes an incredible £200 a year by not being energy efficient. Some 80% of the rubbish we throw away goes straight into landfills which emit CO2 and methane.
Environment	Christian Herald - 2nd October 2004



Every year an area of rainforest the size of England is destroyed. Over half the world's fish species are in danger of decline through over fishing. One third of the world's biodiversity has been lost since 1970. More than 1 billion people lack access to safe water and 2.4 billion to basic sanitation. Poor water supply and inadequate sanitation are the world's biggest killers: there are 250 million cases of water borne diseases per year, leading to 2.2 million deaths. The burning of fossil fuels gas, coal and oil contributes to global warming, which causes more floods and droughts.
Environment	Christian Herald - 2nd October 2004



Kenya- There are 370,000 Maasai in Kenya Life expectancy in Kenya is 48 years for men and 50 for women
Environment	Tear Times - Autumn 2004



Uganda facts- Population: 26,404,543, Median age: 14.1, 300,000 killed under Idi Amin (dictator 1971-79), 100,000 killed under Milton Obote (dictator 1980-85), Religions- Roman Catholic 33 per cent, Protestant 33 per cent, Muslim 16 per cent, Indigenous beliefs 18 per cent.
Environment	The Church of England Newspaper - 20th August 2004



Christian aid agency Oxfam is helping 138,000 people in Darfur and 97,000 in Chad, providing water and sanitation facilities and helping to curb the spread of diseases such as Malaria.
Environment	The Baptist Times - 5th August 2004



Almost 700,000 hectares of UK farmland was taken up with organic production by the start of this year, compared with just 30,000 in 1993. The proportion of UK organic food in shops has increased in the past two years and now accounts for 44 per cent of total organic sales.
Environment	The Sentinel Sunday - 8th August 2004



'China will strictly ban selective abortion of female foetuses to try to reverse a disatrous imbalance in the ratio of newborn boys to girls. In China 119 boys are born for every 100 girls, according to latest statistics. A normal newborn sex ration is 103-107 boys for 100 girls
Environment	The Times - July 16th 2004



The Belize government has admitted that more than 5,000 children are prevented from getting an education because they are working. Official figures show that around 6 per cent of children between the ages of five and seventeen are involved in child labour and over half of these child labourers are engaged in hazardous work.
Environment	New Nation - 21st June 2004



The overall green house gas emissions dropped 10 per cent between 1990 and 2002, the increase from the transport sector as a whole was 50 per cent. The largest increase of 85 per cent was from air transport and even this figure would have risen to over 100 per cent but for the slump in air travel as a result of the attacks on the World Trade Centre.
Environment	The Guardian - 27th May 2004



The government has pledged that the UK will cut CO2 emissions by 60 per cent by 2050. Thats a hugely ambitious target achievable only if each of us limits the CO2 emitted in our name.
Environment	The Guardian Thursday G2 - 29th April 2004



Since the late 1950s, the earth's average surface temperature has increased by 0.6C and snow cover and ice extent have diminished. During the past century, the sea level has risen, on average, by 10-20cm - and the temperature of the oceans has increased. Mid-range estimates for future climate change are 1-3C global mean warming, and a rise in the sea level of 45cm by 2100. It is anticipated that the equivalent of the UK heatwave in the summer of 1976 - which occurs once every 310 years under the current climate - may occur every five to six years by 2050. The heatwave in July-August 1995 in London was associated with a 16 per cent increase in mortality.
Environment	Baptist Times - 15th April 2004



The Met Office which keeps track of weather and temperature patterns has predicted that temperatures in Britain will rise between 1'C and 3'C by 2080. There is clear evidence that the winter season is shrinking and that spring now arrives about two weeks earlier than it did 30 years ago. That means that for every degree rise in temperature, spring arrives about six days earlier.
Environment	Kids Alive - 13th March 2004



Global Warming may be slowing as trees in the tropical forests of the Amazon are growing and dying much more quickly. The growth of trees in the Amazon Basin has nearly doubled in recent decades helping to slow warming.
Environment	The Sentinel, 11th Febuary 2004.



The average person in the United Kingdom uses 10 tonnes of carbon every year, but we should really be using as little as 2.5 tonnes. The UK government has set a target for a huge cut in the amount of carbon we pump into the atmosphere - 60 per cent by 2050. That means everyone needs to take serious action now, otherwise the climate in this country will change in a big way.
Environment	Kids Alive - Nov 29th 2003

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