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Gates Donates $20M to Help Rice Farmers
Bill Gates, the world's richest man, is to donate nearly 20 million dollars for research into helping rice farmers deal with global warming, the...
Increased Employment Is Climate Change’s Silver Lining: UN
Despite the detrimental effects brought on by climate change, new industries to combat global would likely spur employment oportunities for not just the middle...
Saving Plants that Save Lives
Unsustainable collection practices are threatening the survival of many of the plant species used in traditional and modern medicines. After three years of collaboration...
Ethiopian Farmers Boosted By Improved Seed
Five years ago, Wegene Abebe was just another local peasant eking out a living in Tijo, 220km southeast of the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa;...
Countries Agree on Plan to Save Animals
Over one hundred countries are taking action to save endangered livestock breeds using genetic stockpiling to preserve a wide variety of species, according to...
Israel Tops Green List
The IUCN-World Conservation Union named Israel the nation with the highest percentage of preserved land in the Mediterranean region (France preserves 11.7 percent) with...
Florida Everglades Off the Danger List of World Heritage Sites
The World Heritage Committee announced that significant improvements in the preservation of the Everglades National Park in Florida, and of the Río Plátano Biosphere...
Coca-Cola Company Pledges to Replace the Water It Uses in Its Beverages and Their Production
The Coca-Cola Company pledged to replace the water it uses in its global beverage operations, and that of its franchise bottlers, as part of...
Teaching AIDS Orphans to Farm and Help Themselves
(IRIN) - Twelve-year-old Nhlanhla Matsebula, one of Swaziland’s growing number of children orphaned by AIDS, has good reason to feel proud. He has mastered...
New Coffee Helps Save Chimps and Impoverished Farmers at the Same Time
Chimpanzees and coffee have more in common than you might think. It was in Gombe National Park in Tanzania in 1960 that legendary primatologist...
Ex-Senate Leaders Launch Center to Forge Bipartisan Solutions
Two Republicans and two Democrats, all former U.S. Senate Majority Leaders, have launched the Bipartisan Policy Center, a new organization with the noble goal...
Instead of Hauling Water Up Mountain, New Faucets for Tajiks
For decades, residents of Kuldara, a village nestled in the remote mountainous region of Khovaling, Tajikistan, hauled water on their shoulders from the bottom...
Five Ways the United Nations is Saving People and the Planet
In 1997, the owner of Cable News Network, Ted Turner, shocked the world when he handed over a billion dollars to the United Nations....
Colombian Peace Groups Nominated for Nobel Prize
Two Colombian groups were nominated in February for the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for their extraordinary commitment to nonviolence in the midst of the...
Poor Earn Income From Trees – Without Felling Them
Entrepreneurs don't grow on trees, but with a little help from the U.N., poor families around the world are starting their own small...
Paraguay: Music against Hunger
Tomorrow a group of world-famous artists raise their voices in Paraguay's capital to draw attention to the world's hungry and raise money for food...
China, India Once Food Aid Recipients, Now Food Donors
In the same year it stopped receiving global food aid, China emerged as the world's third largest food donor. According to a report by...
Soros Invests $50M to Lift African Villages From Poverty
US financier George Soros is to invest $50 million in a development project that aims to show how targeted investment can end extreme poverty...
Cuba’s Agricultural Revolution an Example to the World
An organic, green revolution, largely unnoticed, is well under way in Cuba — unprecedented both within the developed and undeveloped world — establishing a self-sustaining system...
Over 6 Million Acres of New Protected Areas Established in the Amazon
On June 6, 2006, the Brazilian government announced the creation of protected areas of the Amazon rainforest totaling 6.2 million acres, including The Juruena...