Transport experts and municipal authorities from major cities across Asia have gathered today at a United Nations meeting in Seoul to examine how a well integrated system of buses, subways and trains can contribute to sustainable development.
The Paralympic Games currently under way in Vancouver, Canada, highlight the contribution sport can make in promoting the inclusion and well-being of people with disabilities, a senior United Nations official said today.
An advancement in hybrid electric vehicle technology is providing powerful benefits beyond transportation.Researchers at DOE’s’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have designed, fabricated and demonstrated a PHEV traction drive power electronics system that provides significant mobile power…
by Nicole Stricker, DOEBiorefineries may soon rely on a process akin to roasting coffee beans to get more energy-dense biomass. The process is called “torrefaction” — heating biomass above 250 degrees C in an oxygen-free environment. A new collaborative study between DOE’s Idaho National…
United Nations agencies and the Afghan health ministry are conducting a three-day campaign aimed at vaccinating an estimated 7.7 million children under the age of five against polio.
The head of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has helped kick off Haiti's spring planting season, distributing seeds, fertilizer and tools to farmers in a village near the epicentre of January's devastating earthquake.
With five years to go before the deadline for halving the number of people without access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the World Health Organization (WHO) warn in a report released today that without stepped-up efforts, nearly one…
An independent United Nations human rights expert who recently visited Myanmar said today that there is no indication that the Government is willing to release political prisoners ahead of national elections scheduled for later this year.
A United Nations human rights group today will begin reviewing more than 200 cases of disappearances around the world, as the body commemorates its 30th anniversary.
The many instances of harrowing and horrific human rights violations in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) will continue unless certain measures at the national and international levels are taken, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on human rights in the country said today.
A United Nations-backed conference aimed at regulating international trade in endangered species such as elephants, polar bears, sharks and bluefin tuna kicked off today in Qatar with a warning that stronger action must be taken to protect wildlife at risk.
The plan to bust the Hump restaurant in Santa Monica was launched months ago when Sea Shepherd Outreach Coordinator Zoli Teglas first told me about a Santa Monica restaurant serving whale meat. I thought he was joking.But it was not a joke, and Zoli set about organizing a sting operation recruiting…
12 March 2010 ¦ Dushanbe/Geneva -- A new US$1.5 million project to make 16 health facilities and the staff working in them better able to deal with humanitarian crises is being rolled out along the Tajikistan-Afghanistan border.
The Ministry of Health of Egypt has announced two new cases of human H5N1 avian influenza infection.
As of 7 March 2010, worldwide more than 213 countries and overseas territories or communities have reported laboratory confirmed cases of pandemic influenza H1N1 2009, including at least 16713 deaths.
The Department of Environmental Protection today approved a project by Hazleton Creek Properties that will use processed construction and demolition debris, as well as regulated fill, to reclaim ...
The Department of Environmental Protection reported today that an abandoned well near a residential neighborhood in Moon Township, Allegheny County, has been successfully plugged. The well had been releasing ...
The Department of Environmental Protection today fined Allied Waste Systems of Pennsylvania $650,000 for violations related to off-site gas, odor and operational problems at its Imperial Landfill facility ...
A major new United Nations study will examine the influence of climate change and some of the world's most hazardous chemicals on human health and the environment.
University of California – BerkeleyAtrazine, one of the world’s most widely used pesticides, emasculates three-quarters of adult male frogs, who then cannot reproduce, and turns one in 10 into females, according to a new study by University of California, Berkeley, biologists. While the…