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Since they failed to patch up the vulnerabilities that allowed hackers to gain access and leak data from their servers the first time, members of TeaMp0isoN revisited the United Nations Development Programme website and leaked another round of data. Even more, they found a series of vulnerabilities present in the org... |
9 February 2012
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Officials from the European Space Agency (ESA) have already made their way to South Africa, where the 2011 United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties 17 (COP 17) starts today. The event will take place in Durban, between November 28 and December 9.
ESA is present at the meeting in order to stress the un... |
28 November 2011
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A rich selection of image from United States Geological Survey (USGS) Landsat satellite's archive of Earth imagery has been selected by an UN group for addition to the Memory of the World International Register. The images are considered worthy to preserve humanity's documentary history. The recognition is ... |
26 October 2011
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For a long time, copyright backers argued that tougher legislation was needed to deter pirates from grabbing the latest Lady Gaga album or the latest Hollywood flick from their preferred BitTorrent sites. One very popular measure proposed is kicking people off the internet to serve as reminder of just how bad copyrig... |
7 June 2011
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According to the latest report released by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), it would seem that the world could get as much as 80 percent of its energy demands from renewable sources by 2050, if steps are taken now.In the landmark study, experts explain that policies to target such ... |
11 May 2011
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The United Nations have just released a new, revised report detailing estimated population growth models set forth by researchers. According to the data, the world's population could exceed ten billion people by 2100, in the moderate estimate. The UN continuously develops population projections, to help authorit... |
6 May 2011
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The fact that we are heading towards a water crisis is no longer a secret to anyone. Given the rate at which the world's population is growing, we may soon find ourselves searching for the precious chemical all over the place. The World Water Day again brought these issues to the spotlight.Celebrated every March... |
24 March 2011
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After four years of negotiations, one would expect the the majority of world governments could come to an agreement on the issues plaguing our planet. Apparently, that is too much to hope for. The UN Climate Change Conference COP16, which took place in Cancun, ended with few results. In all fairness, a modest deal ha... |
13 December 2010
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Analysts say that the world could see an international agreement on two of the planet's most pressing issues as early as this December, if representatives of countries meeting in Cancun, Mexico, agree to compromise, and at least try to work together. Between November 29 and December 10, representatives from near... |
10 November 2010
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ITU (International Telecommunication Union), an UN agency expects 2 billion or more people to be online by late 2010.This means that no more than a third of the World's population will have direct Internet access by the end of this year.The agency, a neutral organization for information and telecommunication tec... |
20 October 2010
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The United Nations is about to appoint an ambassador for alien affairs, who will be in charge of greeting extraterrestrial visitors when and if they come to Earth.The organization is very likely to propose that astrophysicist Mazlan Othman takes this position. Her main responsibilities will be to initiate contact wit... |
27 September 2010
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A director of the United Nations (UN) Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has warned that big food companies and large agricultural producers are currently blocking reforms that would improve food production, human health, and the environment. The official explains that these corporations spend millions of d... |
24 September 2010
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Officials at the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) announced yesterday that they are adding a new batch of regions from around the world to their List of Natural World Heritage sites. The decision to include the new sites was taken by the independent inter-governmental body kno... |
3 August 2010
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The International Whaling Commission (IWC) is so keen at promoting a compromise between nations opposing and countries favoring whaling that it appears to forget why it was set up in the first place. This was made obvious in a proposal that the organization released about five days ago, in which a number of new &ldqu... |
27 April 2010
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A new report by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has determined that deforestation rates at a global scale have been diminishing for the past ten years. This event is not due to more people becoming aware of the importance of forests, but to the fact that China has been planting enormous amounts of new ... |
25 March 2010
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In a report prepared for the first-ever meeting of the Global Conference on Agricultural Research for Development (GCARD), researchers paint a bleak picture of the future. They say that, unless immediate action is taken on increasing the world's food supply, we could soon be faced with a crisis unlike any other ... |
25 March 2010
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After the Conference of the Parties (COP) 15 meeting ended in Copenhagen, last December, many analysts, and officials in countries that are directly under threat from the effects of global warming, called the results disappointing, to say the least. Many have qualified them as null, and a large number of experts were... |
17 March 2010
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According to a new statement released by the United Nations, it would appear that the world's governments are lagging behind in fulfilling their obligations of safeguarding the big cats. The new data seems to indicate that the animals are experiencing a dramatic fall in numbers across the world. Poaching is one ... |
15 March 2010
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According to the United Nations, the non-binding pledges that nations made following the failed Copenhagen climate summit are insufficient to prevent an increase of two degrees Celsius in global temperatures over the coming century. Some 60 countries have submitted their emission-reduction targets to the UN as per th... |
23 February 2010
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Yvo de Boer, the acting leader of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, announced that he would be stepping down from his position starting July 1, 2010. The officials explained in a news conference that the decision has nothing to do with the failure of the world's nations to come to a con... |
18 February 2010
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The earthquake that struck Haiti on January 12 had multiple effects on the country, as far as its society, economy, and politics went, but also managed to destabilize all the fault lines around the region. This was the conclusion geophysicists analyzing the consequences of the tremor came to. They shared their data w... |
3 February 2010
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One of the only achievements of last December's UN Climate Summit, held in Copenhagen, was the promise that the developed world made to developing and poor countries. The terms of the agreement dictated that rich nations would provide about $30 billion in funding to the rest of the world, over a period of three ... |
25 January 2010
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Authorities from some 54 nations in the United Kingdom recently to discuss the terms of the United Nations initiative that would turn 2010 into the International Year of Biodiversity. The meeting was meant to be a starting point in negotiations that would culminate at a full UN summit this October, to be held in Nago... |
22 January 2010
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The impoverished nation of Haiti was again stricken by a powerful earthquake today, January 20, at 06:03:44 AM epicenter time (11:03:44 UTC). With emergency response teams from around the world already on site in Port-au-Prince, as well as in other areas of the country that were strongly affected by the January 12 de... |
20 January 2010
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The United Nations has decided to take a stand against what can only be construed as international neglect of the world's species. While naturalists and biologists have been drawing attention to the fact that the planet is losing biodiversity at an alarming rate, authorities and governments seem more than unwill... |
11 January 2010
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In a move that developing nations called the “death of the African continent,” representatives of the countries that attended the 2009 UN Climate Summit, held in Copenhagen, decided to adopt a draft proposal for a new treaty. The document is the same we were telling you about on Saturday. Even then, it dr... |
21 December 2009
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Though the negotiations of the 2009 UN Climate Summit were scheduled to conclude yesterday, representatives from nearly all countries involved decided to give compromise another chance today, in an extended session. Things don't appear to be running too smoothly however, as a draft proposal presented earlier was... |
19 December 2009
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A large number of world leaders, from 194 United Nations countries, gathered today in the Danish capital Copenhagen for the last planned day of the 2009 Climate Summit. Though there was a lot of big talk before and during the meetings, and high representatives expressed their faith in the success of the negotiations,... |
18 December 2009
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With only 48 hours left to decide on the future of the world as we know it, world leaders are still bogged down in procedures and petty disagreements in Copenhagen, at the 2009 UN Climate Summit. The Conference of the Parties (COP 15) seems to have lost sight of the reason why it gathered in the Danish capital in the... |
17 December 2009
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Officials representing the 190+ countries that are attending the 2009 UN Climate Change conference, held in Copenhagen, have worked through the night, in an attempt to come to a decision about how to fund poorer nations in the international struggle against global warming and climate change. At the forefront of the d... |
11 December 2009
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US President Barack Obama has announced for a long time that he will be attending this year's UN Climate Summit, held in Copenhagen, but he recently said that he would no longer attend the works. Rather, he will meet up with other leaders at the end of the conference, in the very last day. The purpose of the new... |
5 December 2009
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The upcoming UN Climate Summit, scheduled to begin in Copenhagen, Denmark, in just a few days, will be a cornerstone for the international community. It's highly unlikely that any compromise will be achieved during the meetings, analysts say, as there still isn't any will at high levels to take care of our ... |
2 December 2009
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With the last meeting of the United Nations on the issues of global warming scheduled to start on December 6 in Copenhagen, policymakers are looking in every possible place for studies to inform them and their decisions. This is a very active time, right before the summit, as demonstrated by the scandal that is curre... |
26 November 2009
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Under the US Endangered Species Act of 2008, the polar bear populations in Alaska have been listed with an increased risk of extinction. Global warming and human activities in the area are considerably reducing the habitats in which the bears usually live, so the US Department of the Interior has recently issued an i... |
24 October 2009
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Between 2007 and 2011, eight missions were flown, or will be flown to the Moon, in a genuine flurry of exploration. Undoubtedly, it won't be too long until we will send astronauts there again, and lay the foundation of permanent lunar bases, at first only for research, but later on for habitation as well. But, t... |
17 October 2009
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In a statement made today, October 12, Marie-Paule Kieny, the head of Vaccine Research at the World Health Organization (WHO), announced that the United Nations agency plans to start sending H1N1 influenza vaccines to the developing world as early as next month. Most of the drugs will be donated by big pharmaceutical... |
12 October 2009
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Less than four months before the UN climate change summit, scheduled to take place in the Danish capital, Copenhagen, the United Nations' Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, decided to undertake a visit to the Arctic, so as to raise awareness among world leaders of the necessity for change. The official is also taki... |
2 September 2009
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A new model developed by researchers at the Princeton University holds the promise of being able to fairly distribute the burdens of carbon dioxide cut responsibilities to all nations that will participate at the December United Nations summit, to be held in Copenhagen, Denmark. Previous proposals have all been rejec... |
7 July 2009
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After an extremely narrow vote, 62-year-old Japanese diplomat Yukiya Amano has been appointed as the new Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), succeeding Mohamed ElBaradei as the leader of one of the most important agencies in the world. More than two thirds of the Council voted for Amano... |
6 July 2009
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The clean development mechanism (CDM) is an instrument created by the United Nations to serve as a carbon trading system for a number of countries. Today, a top climate executive in China denied allegations made about the country by several other states, which said that it was more or less getting a free ride within ... |
12 June 2009
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According to the UN nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), traces of undeclared and illegal man-made uranium have been found in a small teaching reactor in Damascus, Syria. This is the second time when off-the-books uranium is found in the Middle Eastern nation, with previous traces identifi... |
8 June 2009
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The United Nations released a 53-page recommendation report on Wednesday, saying that the world was not yet “standing still” as far as a consensus on climate change was concerned. At last December's summit in the Polish city of Poznan, the divide between the developed and the underdeveloped world wid... |
20 May 2009
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A fisheries official in South Korea announced on Thursday that the country was considering resuming its commercial fishing practices, if the International Whaling Commission allowed Japan to continue its cull of minke whales in its territorial waters. The situation, which will be discussed in June at the next IWC mee... |
23 April 2009
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According to top Australian and Chinese officials, there is a good chance that the December 2009 UN summit, to be held in Copenhagen, will be concluded with an international treaty that will replace the Kyoto Protocol. The two representatives say that signs show that the increasing gap between rich and developing nat... |
15 April 2009
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The latest international climate talks, held in Bonn, Germany, as a preview to the December UN summit in Copenhagen, did nothing to solve any actual issue related to the environment, but rather evidenced the fact that there was a widening conflict between developed and developing nations, when it came to deciding the... |
9 April 2009
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The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) announced on Monday that the world should not get the impression that the global food security crisis had passed simply because the price of grain had slightly dropped over the last period. The organization said that the actual number of those below the limit of poverty ... |
30 March 2009
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On Tuesday, Yvo de Boer, the climate chief at the United Nations, warned that time was running out for governments and national authorities to come up with new and sustainable methods of reducing pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. He said that, with just 265 days left until this December's Copenhagen intern... |
18 March 2009
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The European Union (EU)'s environment chief announced on Friday that the Copenhagen conference, scheduled to take place at the end of this year, was the cornerstone in the fight against global warming. He cautions that, if important steps aren't taken to address this issue at the next global summit, then th... |
27 February 2009
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In its annual report, the United Nations' International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) has established that drug consumption in the Unites States, the largest market of illicit substances in the world, has decreased, especially amongst teens, but that prescription pill abuse is on a steep rise. According to the ... |
20 February 2009
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According to a bleak prediction released by the United Nations on Tuesday, the world could lose up to 25 percent of its food supply by no later than 2050, on account of the devastation that will be triggered by global warming and climate change. Among the most serious effects, the report enumerates soil erosion, degr... |
18 February 2009
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