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  1. There are many known issues related to the topic of cloning. Many believe that cloning does pose health risks. This is true especially when cloning is used for replicating animals.
  2. Cloning dates back to 1885 when the first study was conducted by German scientist Hans Adolf Eduard Driesch. In 1902, he cloned a set of twin salamanders by dividing an embryo into two separate, viable embryos. Since then, there have been many breakthroughs in cloning.
  3. Urban agglomeration provides opportunities for innovation and reducing costs; provision of urban services is not a function of city size but of co-ordination of different services; clustering of economic activities stimulates economic development; linking land use with public transport is more effective for sustainable and inclusive development.
  4. Humans are spreading across the planet in a way that is unsustainable. Cities, the places where most humans now live, are becoming bigger and more voracious exploiters of space than ever before.
  5. Just over half the world's population now call cities home. Soon some 500 cities around the world will have more than 1 million people each. Within a couple of decades, says the UN.
  6. A global water crisis is already apparent to those who look beyond humans and consider what is happening to other species. Planet Earth is at the beginning of a mass extinction event that is eliminating species at a faster rate than at any time in the history of the planet. This is the sixth mass […]
  7. Renewable energy usually is believed to be a solution to the rising energy demands and as a measure against environmental damage. Is it really so?
  8. Subjects and verbs must agree in two ways: number (singular or plural) and person (first, second, or third). These two general rules hold through all the different subject/verb guidelines. As a rule, plural subjects end in -s and plural verbs do not end in -s.