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Tensions are high over Russians role in the conflict in eastern Ukraine Nato SecretaryGeneral Jens Stoltenberg said that the statement from Mr Putin was confirming the pattern and behavior of Russia over a period of time we have seen Russia is investing more in defence in general and in its nuclear capability in particular He said This nuclear sabrerattling of Russia is unjustified its destabilising and its dangerous
   
   
   
   
Kirk Kerkorian the son of Armenian immigrants who became a aire Las Vegas mogul has died at the age of The veteran US businessman was the largest shareholder in MGM Resorts International which owns the MGM Grand and Bellagio hotels in Las Vegas
   
   
   
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The worlds seven people consume varying amounts of the planets resources Compare the lifestyle of a subsistence farmer with that of a wealthy citydweller in a developed country More land is required to grow the city dwellers food more materials are used to build the city dwellers home and workplace more energy is required for transport heating and cooling So its obvious that Americans consume more on average than the people of less developed countries But the claim that four Earths would be needed if everyone lived like Americans is still a striking one It has been recurring on social media at least since when science writer Tim De Chant�produced this infographic�illustrating how much land would be required if seven people lived like the populations of nine selected countries from Bangladesh to the United Arab Emirates De Chant was using a subset of data produced by the Global Footprint Network GFN which has been attempting the tricky business of measuring the impact of humans on the planet since Ecological footprinting is where researchers look at how much land sea and other natural resources are used to produce what people consume how many potatoes they eat how much milk they drink the cotton that goes into the shirts they wear and so on They do this by using published statistics on consumption and the amount of land or sea used to produce the quantity of goods consumed Its a bookkeeping approach for resources says GFN director and cofounder Mathis Wackernagel The key questions for GFN he says are If there is one planet how much planet is available per person and how much planet do we use per person The answers are expressed in an unusual unit the global hectare defined as a biologically productive hectare with worldaverage bioproductivity The average American says GFN uses seven global hectares compared to a global average of according to the most recent GFN figures based on data from Its this figure of seven global hectares that allows Wackernagel and his colleagues to calculate that it would take four Earths or to be precise Earths to sustain a population of seven at American levels of consumption However the US does not consume the most on this measure It is in fact ranked fifth among countries with a population of one or more Kuwait comes top with global hectares Earths followed by Australia Earths the United Arab Emirates Earths and Qatar Earths The others in the top are Canada Sweden Bahrain Trinidad and Tobago and Singapore One curious thing to note is that according to the Global Footprint Network the worlds population is currently using not one but oneandahalf Earths Thats because it takes account of carbon emissions The forests and oceans of the world absorb a lot of carbon dioxide but we are currently emitting more than the planet can handle and Wackernagels team has calculated how much extra land and sea we would need to absorb it They estimate that we need an extra half a planet If we now look again at the average American footprint twothirds of that is made up of carbon emissions This means that for the four Earths we would need if everyone consumed like an American more than twoandahalf of those would be needed just to absorb carbon dioxide This calculation has its critics It seems a little odd to convert whats happening in the atmosphere into a proxy measure and pretend youre measuring land when youre not says Fred Pearce environment correspondent for New Scientist magazine
   
   
   
   
The lack of a result leaves a summit of government leaders later in the day with few prospects of making any concrete decisions on the countrys crisis Greece needs more loans from its creditors which include its fellow eurozone states and the International Monetary Fund in time for June when it faces a debt repayment it cannot afford The country has been negotiating for four months what economic reforms it should make to get the Ahead of the meetings in Brussels German Chancellor Angela Merkel and other European officials had warned against expecting too much on Monday Markets had rallied strongly in the morning on hopes that new proposals for reforms submitted by the Greek government over the weekend would pave the way for a deal Those gains faded somewhat as it became clear that a deal would have to wait a little longer yet After trading percent higher earlier the main Greek stock index was up about percent The Stoxx index of major European shares was up percent
   
   
   


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