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Filipino investigative journalist to receive UN press freedom prize
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) on Tuesday named investigative journalist and media executive Maria Ressa of the Philippines as the recipient…
Research: Lactic acid bacteria can extend the shelf life of foods
Researchers at the National Food Institute, Technical University of Denmark, have generated a lactic acid bacterium that efficiently secretes a food-grade preservative when grown on…
UN chief ‘realistic’ at start of fresh bid to resolve Cyprus stalemate
A fresh United Nations-led bid to seek to resolve decades of tensions in Cyprus began in Geneva on Tuesday, with Secretary-General António Guterres “realistic” about…
EC: Member States should raise water prices
Vice president Frans Timmermans of the European Commission (EC) presented the new EU Strategy on Adaptation to Climate Change as part of the Green Deal….
Vertical turbines could be the future for wind farms
The now-familiar sight of traditional propeller wind turbines could be replaced in the future with wind farms containing more compact and efficient vertical turbines. New…
New UN-led global immunization push aims to save more than 50 million lives
A UN-led global immunization strategy was unveiled on Monday to reach more than 50 million children who have missed lifesaving jabs against diseases such as…
Commission welcomes the political agreement on the proposal for a Public Sector Loan Facility of the Just Transition
The Commission welcomes today’s political agreement by the European Parliament and the Council on the Commission’s proposal for a new Public Sector Loan Facility (PSLF)….
Hydrocracking our way to recycling plastic waste
In the United States, less than 9% of plastic waste is recycled. Instead, more than 75% of plastics waste ends up in landfills and up…
Philippines: Country faces health and human rights crisis one year into the COVID-19 pandemic
The Philippine government must urgently address the country’s COVID-19 crisis with reports of thousands having struggled to access adequate healthcare, said Amnesty International today. Hospitals…
Link between young adults’ climate anxiety and mental health strongest in Finland
According to Professor Katariina Salmela-Aro, young Finnish adults take climate issues very seriously. At the same time, many of them are reporting mental health struggles,…
A ‘malaria-free future’ is possible, UN chief says on international day
Despite the COVID-19 pandemic and the multiple crises it has sparked, a growing number of countries are approaching and achieving malaria elimination, the UN chief…
Singapore’s recycling rate falls to 10-year low
For a developed country, Singapore’s domestic recycling rate was already low, at 17 per cent. Covid has been blamed for pushing down recycling rates further,…
Charities risk missing out on a share of trillions of pounds of inherited wealth from millennials, report warns
Charities risk missing out on a share of trillions of pounds of inherited wealth from a “lost generation” of affluent millennial givers unless the sector…
Fair Pricing Forum ends with good intentions and new undertakings from WHO
The third WHO Fair Pricing Forum on reaching fairer prices of medicines and health tools ended on Thursday 22 April after six days of intense…
Climate-friendly microbes chomp dead plants without releasing heat-trapping methane
The tree of life just got a little bigger: A team of scientists from the U.S. and China has identified an entirely new group of…
In Calculating the Social Cost of Methane, Equity Matters
What is the cost of 1 ton of a greenhouse gas? When a climate-warming gas such as carbon dioxide or methane is emitted into the…
Paulig’s Annual Report 2020: Towards a sustainable future for food with a new sustainability approach
In its first year of implementation, Paulig’s ambitious sustainability approach has already yielded concrete results. In 2020, Paulig reduced greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from its…
President Ursula von der Leyen welcomes the first official submission of a recovery and resilience plan by Portugal
President Ursula von der Leyen said: “Across Europe, we can see vaccination campaigns accelerating. In parallel, it is now all the more important to launch…
‘Careers have no gender’, connect girls to tech, for a brighter future UN urges
Despite information and communication technology playing such a key role throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, the UN chief said that half the world remains offline, in…
Waste-to-Energy has still a place in the EU Taxonomy
Together with the recognition of anaerobic digestion, the broader inclusion of Waste-to-Energy in the EU Taxonomy would have been a positive signal for the whole…
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