POLITICS: U.N. in Final Push for 2015 Development Goals By Thalif DeenUNITED NATIONS - A special U.N. summit of world leaders, scheduled to take place next year, is expected to make "a final push" to help reach the world body's widely-touted development goals by the targeted date of 2015. MORE >>
CLIMATE CHANGE: Health at Risk By Patricia GroggHAVANA - The impacts of climate change on human health will require new approaches to development, based on mitigation and adaptation programmes in line with policies that ensure equal access to health care. MORE >>
CLIMATE CHANGE: The Danish Example By Julio Godoy*COPENHAGEN - Whether a new internationally binding treaty to reduce greenhouse gases and forestall climate change will be signed next month remains to be seen. What is clear though, is that if there is a place in the world that deserves to be the stage where this treaty ought to be signed, it is the Danish capital of Copenhagen. MORE >>
BIODIVERSITY: Plants Finally Get DNA Barcodes By Stephen Leahy*MÉRIDA, Mexico - Advances made in genetic profiling could be used to fight illegal timber trading, provide authentication of herbal medicines and map entire food chains, according to experts at a conference of the Mexican Academy of Sciences. MORE >>
ENVIRONMENT: Wildfires Spreading as Temperatures Rise Analysis by Janet Larsen*WASHINGTON - Future firefighters have their work cut out for them. Perhaps nowhere does this hit home harder than in Australia, where in early 2009 a persistent drought, high winds, and record high temperatures set the stage for the worst wildfire in the country's history. MORE >>
DEVELOPMENT: Child Rights Make Headway, But Millions Still Suffering By Thalif DeenUNITED NATIONS - The international community, which has been hit by a financial meltdown and a global food crisis, claims it is doing its best to protect and safeguard the rights of children worldwide. MORE >>
ENVIRONMENT: Listen to the Earth, Say Indigenous Peoples By Valentina Martínez Valdés*MÉRIDA, Mexico - The idea of wilderness is "an interesting concept; it is a Western concept. Our people have always lived and interacted in the environment," said Illion Merculieff, an environmental activist from the Aleut community in the north-western U.S. state of Alaska. MORE >>
HEALTH: Strategy to Cut Vaccine Price Paying Off By Eli CliftonWASHINGTON - The price of a major combination vaccine called the 'pentavalent' has fallen considerably over the past year, bringing the cost per dose below three dollars - a decrease of almost 50 cents, according to data released Wednesday by an alliance of public and private partners who have worked to bring down vaccine prices in the developing world. MORE >>
CLIMATE CHANGE: Women Central to Adaptation, Mitigation By Nastasya TayPORT ELIZABETH, South Africa - Poor women will bear the greatest ‘climate burden’, says the United Nations Population Fund in its 2009 State of the World Population report, released today. MORE >>
DEVELOPMENT: UNFPA Puts Human Face on Climate Blowback By Thalif DeenUNITED NATIONS - A new U.N. report on the hazards of climate change brings a fresh human perspective to an ongoing wide-ranging debate that has focused primarily on energy efficiency and industrial carbon emissions. MORE >>
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