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Neue Weltkarte der Wälder: Der Mensch zerstört im rasanten Tempo die weltweit verbleibende intakte Waldwildnis.

Die Zahl ist schwer vorstellbar: Über 104 Millionen Hektar (8,1 Prozent) der letzten weltweit verbliebenen intakten Waldwildnisflächen wurden innerhalb der letzten dreizehn Jahre zerstört. Eine Fläche, dreimal so groß wie Deutschland. Das enthüllt eine neue Untersuchung von Greenpeace, der Universität von Maryland (UMD) und dem World Resources Institute (WRI) zum Zustand der sogenannten Intact Forest Landscapes (IFL), der letzten intakten Waldwildnisflächen. (more…)

Terrorism and the Olympics By-the-Numbers: Analysis from UMD-based START

By Guest PostJuly 27, 2012Politicsatlanta, Beijing, erin miller, Europe, global terrorism database, gtd, munich, olympic games, olympics, potential threat, public transportation, qaida, secret organization, start, suicide bombings, terrorism, umd, university of maryland

COLLEGE PARK, Md. – History offers a warning, but no clear pattern on the true risk of terrorism at the Olympic Games, concludes a new report by the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) based at the University of Maryland.

The Olympic Games have been terror targets on three separate occasions since 1970, claiming 22 lives and wounding more than 100, the report says. It compiles and analyzes data from START’s comprehensive Global Terrorism Database (GTD).

“The heightened profile of these events might increase the likelihood of a terrorist attack while the heightened security and surveillance might decrease the likelihood of an attack,” explains START researchers and report co-author Erin Miller. (more…)

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Terrorism and the Olympics By-the-Numbers: Analysis from UMD-based START