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Bolivia Designates World’s Largest Protected Wetland
The Bolivian government recently created the largest protected wetland in the world – an area bigger than the Netherlands and Belgium combined, more than...
Start Up Company Wins $630,000 for Making Bio-Plastic Out of Greenhouse Gas
A young start-up called Mango Materials has won a Green Challenge prize of $630,000 for its plan to use bacteria to turn the most...
Scientists Make Progress in Tailor-Made Organs Using Body’s Own Cells
Tissue engineers are building organs using the body’s own cells and letting the body do most of the work.
So far, only a few organs...
Dutch Kids Pedal Their Own Bus To School
The Dutch are bicycle fanatics. Almost half of daily travel in the Netherlands is by bicycle. Devotees of the two-wheelers have taken the next...
Teenage Sailor Laura Dekker Becomes Youngest to Circle the Globe
A year and a day after she set out to sail single-handed around the globe, Dutch teenager Laura Dekker will finish her 27,000 mile...
Newsweek Ranks the World’s Greenest Companies
Even in this weak economy, many of the world’s largest companies are tackling green projects -- emissions, energy efficiency and recycling -- with increasing...
First Independent Palestinian News Program Bolsters Civil Society
Less than two months ago, from a humble, but well-equipped studio in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, two young television anchors presented the...
World Landmarks Light-Up With ‘End Polio’ Message in Final Push to Eradicate Disease
What do the Trevi Fountain in Rome, India’s Charminar monument, and the New York Stock Exchange building have in common? Each of these iconic...
‘World Giving Index’ Ranks Generosity of Countries With Surprising Results
The “World Giving Index” is the first report of its kind to tally different types of charitable behavior found in people from 153 countries....
Pollution-Eating Concrete Clears Roadway Air
Researchers at the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands have tested pollution-eating concrete on about 1,000 square meters of roads in the...
Protector of Anne Frank, Dies at 100: Tribute
Miep Gies, the last surviving member of the group who helped protect Anne Frank and her family from the Nazis, has died in the...
Students Invent Way to Recover Metal From Incinerator Waste
Former students at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands are transforming incinerator waste into marketable and eco-friendly raw materials. Incinerator ash consists...
Wind Supergrid to Connect Europe in North Sea
Progress has already been made in Copenhagen at the UN Climate Change Conference in the realm of renewable energy. Nine European countries, it was...
Cow dung to Power More Dutch Homes
A plant that converts cow dung into energy for homes opened in the Netherlands last week.
Manure from cows at a nearby dairy farm will...
Google Street Maps Helped Identify Muggers
Police in the Netherlands have arrested two men after the alleged muggers were identified on a picture taken at the crime scene by Google's...
‘Freedom Kites’ Fly Over the Hague (Video)
Over 100 kites took to the skies of the Hague in The Netherlands on Monday to symbolize freedom of Afghanistan from the...
Mexico City to Turn Green with New Recycling Plan
A newly formed Waste Commission in Mexico City is working to build four state-of-the-art processing centers in the next four years to recycle, compost...
Donations of $450 Million Hit UN Emergency Fund Target for First Time
The United Nations emergency relief fund, set up to speed response to those suffering from natural and man-made disasters, has reached its $450 million...
90,000 Homes To Be Powered By Chicken Manure
The world’s largest biomass power plant running exclusively on chicken manure has opened in the Netherlands, converting one-third of all chicken manure residue there...
Donors Pledge $6.1 Billion to Climate Change Funds
Industrialized countries pledged more than $6.1 billion on Friday to international investment funds aimed at helping developing countries adopt cleaner technologies and mitigate growth...