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Description: Cities are the world's future. Today, more than half of the global population—3.7 billion people—are urban dwellers, and that number is expe...

Description: This sixteenth volume of Worldwatch’s Vital Signs series makes it clear that climate change is both a growing driver of and an increasingly ...

Description: From the thinning of the Arctic sea ice to the invasion of the mosquito-borne West Nile virus, State of the World 2001 shows how the economi...

Description: In State of the World 2005, Worldwatch researchers explore underlying sources of global insecurity including poverty, infectious disease, en...

Description: This report tracks and analyzes 44 trends that are shaping our future, and includes graphs and charts to provide a visual comparison over ti...

Description: With chapters on food, water, energy, the politics of consumption and redefining the good life, Worldwatch’s award-winning research team ask...

Description: Like a tsunami, consumerism has engulfed human cultures and Earth’s ecosystems. Left unaddressed, we risk global disaster. But if we channel...

Description: 'VITAL SIGNS does for the environment what stock market indicators do for the City. But it says more about the future of our world than the ...

Description: From meat consumption to automobile production to hydropower, Vital Signs, Volume 20 documents over two dozen trends that are shaping our fu...