News tagged with un millennium development goals
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.
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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 ...
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.
German firms join for solar-thermal push in the U.S.
Aug 18, 2009 |
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German firms Solar Millennium AG and MAN Ferrostaal AG on Monday said they formed a joint venture to build up to three utility-scale plants in Southern California at a cost about $1 billion each.
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.
Pledge to cut hunger called empty promise
Feb 16, 2006 |
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A Cornell University world hunger expert says a 1990 pledge by nearly 200 nations to cut worldwide hunger in half by 2015 was an empty pledge.
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 ...
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 ...
Are we spending too much on HIV?
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Feb 16, 2007 |
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Billions of pounds are being spent on the fight against AIDS in developing countries. In this week’s BMJ, two experts go head to head over whether we are spending too much.
You can't always get what you want: Young infants understand goals, even if unsuccessful
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jan 28, 2009 |
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We all have goals and desires, but unfortunately, they are not always achieved. For example, a fouled basketball player tries for a free throw shot, but misses. It may be obvious that he wanted to make the shot, but the outcome ...
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