Water is a limited resource that has to respond to the ever-growing demand of 7 billion people. Since water scarcity crisis is linked to a series of hygiene-related diseases, an Irish inventor has come up with an ingenious, cost-effective idea involving renewable power.
Michael Kilbane has invented the solar-powered... |
9 January 2012
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A team of experts from Singapore has managed to give a new eco-friendly purpose to old glass. Scientists from Ngee Ann Polytechnic have designed a recycled glass-based porous ceramic membrane, used to purify raw water.
Their solution, launched through an ample project entitled GLASSwater is both green and cost-effec... |
22 December 2011
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Victoria's Secret, the giant American lingerie retailer worth billions of dollars shows how a beautiful company can keep a big ugly secret.
A new investigation developed by Bloomberg News Agency reveal the company is no stranger to modern child slavery, a phenomenon noticeable in most of the developing countri... |
15 December 2011
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An interesting new project is boosting teaching methods in developing countries, bringing financially-challenged pupils one step closer to a proper education. Solar-powered classrooms are the next best thing announced by a chemistry academic from the University of Southampton, Science Daily informs. Quite often,... |
15 December 2011
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Canada expects an international climate agreement to become effective within the next four years, to avoid harmful consequences triggered by climate change, according to the declaration of its Environment Minister Peter Kent.
He hopes the Durban summit will provide a “mandate” to negotiate the new legal... |
9 December 2011
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DOC2DOCK is an environmentally friendly non-profit organization keen on saving thousands of lives in developing countries, while reducing the amount of waste created by millions of hospitals from wealthy nations. Its officials are trying to divert unused medical supplies from landfills, collecting and redistributin... |
25 November 2011
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The companies behind KALA innovative stove plan to change the key elements in the lives of poor inhabitants, putting an end to open fires for cooking purposes, known as a tremendous source of indoor pollution.
It is now a fact that the lives of almost 3 billion people from developing countries depend on empiric coo... |
22 November 2011
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Not everything that glitters is gold and no gold-digging process is risk-free. Scientists highlight that goal extraction implies the usage of mercury, presenting long-term risks for
mine workers and communities located near the sites. This alarming situation made the EU adopt strict regulations and ban the usage o... |
18 November 2011
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Our modern society provides the perfect framework for social inequities. Global Soap Project hopes to change this context, by recycling soap coming from hotels while allowing people from developing countries to stay healthy.
A lot of untouched or partially used soap ends up in landfills every year, due to hotels�... |
9 November 2011
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A new discovery made by Rice University researchers, boosts up the power of a common disinfectant, and provides a new and ecological way of killing aerosol- and water-borne viruses.Andrew Barron and Qilin Li, from Rice University, along with their teams, discovered that adding silicone to titanium dioxide (a common d... |
13 January 2011
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A team of researchers developed a new, inhalable human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, that could prove very effective in developing countries, both in terms of cost and needle avoidance.The dry powder was developed by lead researcher David McAdams and colleagues from the University of Colorado at Boulder.The vaccine g... |
17 November 2010
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A new research that will be published next week, concluded that changes in population growth and constitution, including criteria like urbanization and aging, will strongly affect greenhouse gas emissions on a global scale, for the next 40 years. By 2050, the Earth's population could include an extra 3 billion ... |
12 October 2010
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The new draft proposal on global warming that was adopted at the 2009 UN Climate Summit in Copenhagen last week is now generally being acknowledged as weak. Countries say that the direct body of pieces of evidence to support immediate actions is mounting as more and more scientific studies come out, and that the gene... |
23 December 2009
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Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia has announced today that Ovi Mail, the email service it has built, now has a number of more than 1 million accounts activated. Moreover, the company also highlights the fact that this mark has been reached in only a little more than six months since the service has been launched on th... |
11 August 2009
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The number of dementia cases in developing countries could be twice the one previously estimated, says a study involving about 15,000 participants, which might be related to the lack of standard techniques for diagnosing dementia in these particular areas. The findings come in contradiction with similar studies that ... |
28 July 2008
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