Nearly 58,000 farming households in Sri Lanka are expected to benefit from a United Nations-funded programme designed to improve their livelihoods, boost their incomes and enhance their participation in the marketing and selling of their products.
More than 7 million people in Niger, which last week saw its Government overthrown in a coup d'état, are facing food insecurity, the United Nations health agency warned today.
Nations must make more aggressive pledges to slash greenhouse gas emissions to avoid global temperatures rising by 2 degrees Celsius and prevent the worst possible effects of climate change, warned the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in a report released today.
No, this is not about the Olympics. An interesting article about wind power and an economic analysis. A comparison of capital costs for a wind farm of larger vs. smaller towers:“25 towers @ 4 MW25 towers @ $500k/tower = $12.5 million in structure + foundation10 miles roads @ $1.5 million/mile =…
With the mountains of hazardous waste from electronic products growing exponentially in developing countries, sometimes by as much as 500 per cent, the United Nations today called for new recycling technologies and regulations to safeguard both public health and the environment.
Calling 911 will cost you money in this town. “they will be charged $300 if they make a call for help. ” How many people will not call 911 now ? Let’s say you were going down the road and see a wreck. Or a burglary ? Or an assault ? Will you pay to report it [...]
Washington, D.C. – Governor Edward G. Rendell, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson and members of the Council of Great Lakes Governors today unveiled an ambitious action ...
Social justice based on the values of fairness, equality and respect for diversity is more important than ever amid a global financial and economic crisis that has significantly increased unemployment and poverty and is straining social integration, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today.
Cyclone / Hurricane / TyphoonTropical Cyclone Gelane had sustained winds of 230 kilometers per hour and gusts up to 275 kilometers per hour, according to a report from the U.S. Navy’s Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) on February 19, 2010. The JTWC reported that Gelane was roughly 315 nautical…
Google received federal approval to trade energy on the open market. The ability to buy and sell energy will give Google the ability to help control one of their largest expenses — electricity. It was also give them the ability to have a stand-alone energy company.“We made this filing so we…
The Sea Shepherd ships Steve Irwin and Bob Barker have now had the illegal Japanese whaling processing ship, Nisshin Maru, on the run for two weeks. No whales have has been killed since February 5th.Three weeks remain in the whaling season, and the Sea Shepherd ships have fuel reserves to continue…
A panel of governmental, academic and non-profit scientists speaking today at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) unveiled research suggesting that diseases found in dolphins are similar to human diseases and can provide clues into how human health…
As of 14 February 2010, worldwide more than 212 countries and overseas territories or communities have reported laboratory confirmed cases of pandemic influenza H1N1 2009, including at least 15921 deaths.
The Department of Environmental Protection has fined the borough of Jersey Shore $75,000 for operation and discharge violations at its sewage treatment plant in Lycoming County during 2008 and 2009. ...
The Department of Environmental Protection has fined Exide Technologies $225,000 for air quality violations at the company’s Berks County lead smelting facility where it failed to operate lead detectors ...
Addressing impunity for human rights violations is one of the top challenges facing the Central African Republic (CAR), as it enters the final stretch before elections, a senior United Nations official said today.
Developing countries with energy intensive industries will benefit from a United Nations-backed project launched today to draw up a technological blueprint for capturing and storing global warming gas emissions, a crucial step in averting dangerous climate change.
East Asia's economically viable coastal habitats and ecosystems are under threat from pollution, alien invasive species and other factors which could impact the region's poverty levels unless urgent action is taken, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) said in a new report.
We have known for some time that the best way to rob a bank is to own the bank. The extension that we are seeing now, is that the best way to rob a country is to own the country. From William Black: “They were able to get Congress to extort FASB, which is the Accounting Standards [...]
WASHINGTON, DC — New findings from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory have provided a major advance in understanding a type of supernova critical for studying the dark energy that astronomers think pervades the universe. The results show mergers of two dense stellar remnants are the likely cause…