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Biodiversity loss weakens global development
Sep 30, 2009 |
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Biodiversity loss is undermining global development, leading scientists warn. The paper brings together a broad group of scientists and policy makers, including Natural History Museum plant expert Dr Sandra ...
Students tackle world's woes at Microsoft Imagine Cup
Jul 10, 2009 |
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Hundreds of thousands of college students from around the world vied in a Microsoft challenge to find ways that technology can help achieve the UN Millennium Development Goals.
Malaria Millennium Development Goal 'unlikely to be met'
Jul 22, 2008 |
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The Millennium Development Goal (MDG) to halt and begin to reverse the incidence of malaria globally is unlikely to be met, according to Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow Professor Bob Snow. The statement comes in ...
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WHO: young child deaths down a third since 1990
May 21, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The World Health Organization says almost a third fewer young children are dying than in 1990.
U.S. 28th in environmental performance
Jan 23, 2006 |
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A nation-by-nation study by Yale and Columbia universities shows the United States is 28th in the world in environmental performance.
ICSU: Widen world's scientific capacities
Sep 14, 2005 |
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In an unprecedented statement to the U.N. General Assembly, the International Council for Science has urged widening the planet's scientific capacities.
Early Andean maize is unearthed
Mar 02, 2006 |
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Archaeologists say they've found evidence that ancient Peruvians grew maize more than a millennium earlier than previously thought.
Ban: Science has role in Africa's future
Nov 22, 2007 |
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Science, technology and human resources are needed to aid Africa's efforts to ease poverty and attain sustainable development, U.N. officials said.
Conflict-affected countries receive less aid dedicated to reproductive health
Jun 09, 2009 |
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Low income, conflict-affected countries such as Afghanistan, Sudan and Somalia receive less development money for reproductive health than countries that are not experiencing conflict, according to a new study in this week's ...
Oldest evidence of leprosy found in 4000-year-old skeleton
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
May 27, 2009 |
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A biological anthropologist from Appalachian State University working with an undergraduate student from Appalachian, an evolutionary biologist from UNC Greensboro, and a team of archaeologists from Deccan College (Pune, ...
Seasonal hunger devastating and under-recognized
Jun 30, 2009 |
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Most of the world's acute hunger and undernutrition occurs not in conflicts and natural disasters but in the annual "hunger season," according to an article published this week in open access journal PLoS Medicine. The hu ...
Is nitrogen the new carbon?
Sep 21, 2009 |
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In looking forward to the next Green Revolution, researchers have been carefully examining the role of nitrogen fixation in delivering successful crops around the globe.
Quitting smoking in pregnancy boosts chances of easygoing child
Mar 13, 2008 |
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Giving up smoking during pregnancy may boost the chances of giving birth to an easy going child, indicates research in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.
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