Experience A Gaza Refugee Camp in 3D
The Jabaliya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip is home to more than 110,000 refugees, according to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA). Among them are children, so many that the camp’s 20 schools work double shifts to accommodate them all. Some children are third-generation refugees, whose grandparents settled in the region […]
Clock Starts Ticking to Implement Paris Climate Deal
A new global agreement to tackle climate change will take effect on November 4 after the accord crossed an important threshold for support late on Wednesday. European nations, Canada, Bolivia and Nepal boosted official backing for the 2015 Paris Agreement to countries representing more than 55 percent of world greenhouse gas emissions, as needed for […]
Inside Brazil’s Battle to Save the Amazon with Satellites and Strike Forces
When George Porto joined Brazil’s environment agency 13 years ago, the country didn’t have access to satellite data on illegal logging – let alone heat maps tracking deforestation patterns or gun-toting agents dedicated to stopping ecological crimes. How times have changed. Today, IBAMA, as the agency is known, has access to four satellite feeds monitoring illegal […]
Young American Sailors Call for Action on Marine Pollution
Leading offshore sailors Charlie Enright and Mark Towill are sounding the alarm about the danger posed by marine debris and pollution, after recent research from the Ocean Conservancy estimated a staggering eight million tons of plastic trash is entering the ocean every year. The duo spent much of last year in the most remote waters […]
Social Entrepreneurs say They Face Tough Hurdles but Making Headway
Greater support from the public, governments and investors is needed to boost the work of entrepreneurs using business for social good, said industry activists and organizers after a Thomson Reuters Foundation poll highlighted these as key issues. While progress overcoming those obstacles is healthy and growing, they said at SOCAP – the largest annual conference […]
Sculptor Anthony Gormley Explores our Relationship With Urbanism
British sculptor Antony Gormley puts people’s relationships with urban construction at the forefront of his latest exhibition “Fit”, creating a sort of labyrinth in a London gallery space. “Sleeping Field”, one of the installations at the White Cube Bermondsey gallery, is made up of hundreds of iron sculptures, which at first look like small high-rise […]
From Duped Maids to Rice Farmers, Asian Women Lead the way in Businesses to aid Society
At all the peace talks Joji Felicitas Pantoja attended in the conflict-troubled Philippines island of Mindanao, coffee was served to put people at ease. But Pantoja soon realised talking about peace wasn’t enough in communities unable to address basic needs like food and health, sparking an idea to use coffee as a vehicle for change. Setting […]
Eat Your Food Packaging, Don’t bin it – Scientists
Scientists are developing an edible form of packaging which they hope will preserve food more effectively and more sustainably than plastic film, helping to cut both food and plastic waste. The packaging film is made of a milk protein called casein, scientists from the U.S. Department of Agriculture said at a meeting of the American […]
UN Secondary Education Goals Will be Missed by 50 Years
The world is set to miss by more than half a century a deadline for ensuring all children receive secondary education, the United Nations has said, adding that 40 percent of pupils are being taught in a language that is not their mother tongue. World leaders agreed last year that by 2030 all girls and […]
Refugee Girls, Hoping for More Than Survival, Need Education – Malala
Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai has called on world leaders to provide education to girls in refugee camps to avoid them being forced into early marriage or child labour. Yousafzai’s statement comes a week before U.S. President Barack Obama hosts the first U.N. summit on refugees in New York where he is expected to urge leaders […]
