Ditch coal from homes to tackle air pollution in Bishkek
Improving how homes are heated is the most effective way to prevent deaths from poor air quality in the Kyrgyz capital, finds the first...
How can a cloud-based LMS benefit your organization
Have you considered using a cloud-based learning management system (LMS) to host your e-learning programs? Cloud-based LMSs like Cloud Academy enable you to provide...
Improved Provision of Mental Health Services Benefit Lithuanian Youth
Strengthened governance and delivery of mental health services will improve the well-being of young people in Lithuania, according to a new World Bank report.
To...
World headed for climate catastrophe without urgent action
The window to take urgent climate action is closing rapidly. Unless countries dramatically scale up their efforts to counter the climate crisis, the world...
Inadequate progress on climate action makes rapid transformation of societies only option
As intensifying climate impacts across the globe hammer home the message that greenhouse gas emissions must fall rapidly, a new UN Environment Programme (UNEP)...
Zero emission vehicles: first ‘Fit for 55′ deal will end the sale of new CO2 emitting cars in Europe by 2035
The European Commission welcomes the agreement reached last night by the European Parliament and Council ensuring all new cars and vans registered in Europe...
Rosneft CEO Igor Sechin calls ‘cutting’ Russia out of global economy ‘absurd and illusory’
Rosneft CEO Igor Sechin (photo) has made several important announcements addressing a Eurasia-themed economic forum in Baku (Azerbaijan):
- The sanctions pressure targeting Russia culminated...
Millions face flooding threat across west and central Africa
In west and central Africa, some 3.4 million people need help after destructive flooding, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, said on Friday. The alert...
How the tracking of birds can help them – and us
By Anthony King
Scientists track birds with electronic tags and radar to solve flight mysteries. In answering ecological questions, the research findings may also improve...
Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestinian territory, tantamount to ‘settler-colonialism’: UN expert
Israel’s occupation is illegal and indistinguishable from a “settler-colonial” situation, which must end, as a pre-condition for Palestinians to exercise their right to self-determination,...