A UN SAFETY NET FOR REFUGEES IN AFRICA
The United Nations Foundation’s Nothing But Nets campaign announced today a new initiative to help eliminate malaria deaths in the next generation.
Responding to an urgent and immediate need, Nothing But Nets is working with the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees to send long-lasting, insecticide-treated bed [...]

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Google has announced “Project 10 to the 100th”, which is a call for ideas to change the world by helping as many people as possible.
“If you have an idea that you believe would help somebody, we want to hear about it. We’re looking for ideas that help as many people as possible, in any [...]

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“Spectacular detailed images of Mars have revealed how climate change shaped the Red Planet over millions of years.
More than 1,000 observations taken by the high resolution camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have revealed details on the surface as small as a desk.
A number of dramatic icy dunes are thought to reflect how the Martian [...]

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Arctic ice levels dipped to the second-lowest levels ever recorded this summer — up slightly from 2007, but still symptomatic of climate change effects, U.S. scientists said Tuesday. “In terms of long-term climate, it’s not a recovery in any sense of the word. The long-term trend is still steeply downward and getting steeper,” said Walt [...]

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An estimated 350 million indigenous peoples live in over 70 countries and speak more than 5,000 languages: such is the importance of indigenous people today.
Their cultures express the powerful links between humanity and nature, between tradition and modernity, offering a holistic view of the world. They could become a source of renewal for the [...]

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Regions whose water level has typically run low — the Middle East, North Africa, and stretches of Central Asia — are now reaching historic levels of drought. Yemen is near to depleting its water table, Kyrgyzstan is cutting electricity to preserve water, and the Sea of Galilee has reached its lowest record ever.
Climate change [...]

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Why do Aborigines in Australia die on average 17 years earlier than non-aborigines in the same country? And why does a black man in Washington, D.C., generally die earlier than a man in India, as well as a white man in the same city? A new report from the World Health Organization (WHO) released a [...]

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