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Community Broadband: A Local Solution for a Global Problem
According to a 2023 study by the International Telecommunications Union, approximately…
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Green Cement Production Is Scaling Up
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How Smallholder Farmers Could Harvest More Rice with…
Rice has become a big part of Ghanaians’ daily diet. The…
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We Used AI and Satellite Imagery to Map…
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COP28: Seven Food Innovations Needed for a Healthy…
For the first time ever, food and agriculture took center stage…
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How ChatGPT Might Help the World’s Poorest and…
ChatGPT has been touted as a tool that is going to…
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Morocco’s Earthquake Wasn’t Unexpected – Building Codes Must…
More than 2,000 people died when a powerful magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck Morocco…
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Farmers Worldwide Face a Soaring Risk of Flash…
Flash droughts develop fast, and when they hit at the wrong…
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African Digital Innovators Are Turning Plastic Waste into…
Plastic pollution is a growing global menace. Between 2010 and 2020,…
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Using the Ocean to Fight Climate Change Raises…
Heat waves, droughts and extreme weather are endangering people and ecosystems…
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Climate Change Threatens Food but Microscopic Algae Offer…
In 2021 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued the first…
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Hunger Is Increasing Worldwide but Women Bear the…
Recent UN data on food insecurity paints a bleak picture of…
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Indigenous Food Sovereignty Requires Better Data Collection
Indigenous communities are increasingly investing in agriculture to sustain their cultures…
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Green Buildings Can Boost Productivity, Well-Being and Health…
Most people now recognize the energy savings benefits of green buildings.…
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Does Turning the Air Conditioning Off When You’re…
Hot summer days can mean high electricity bills. People want to…
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Future Engineers Need To Understand Their Human Impact…
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Want to Solve Society’s Most Urgent Problems? Cash…
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We Created a Tool to Help Predict COVID-19…
One of the obstacles if you are trying to guide policy…
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Most Buildings Were Designed for an Earlier Climate…
Climate change will affect every aspect of our lives – including…
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Robots Are Coming and the Fallout Will Harm…
COVID-19 has brought about numerous, devastating changes to people’s lives globally.…
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Where the Cold Chain Doesn’t Go
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Plastics Could Help Build a Sustainable Future –…
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UV Light Can Make the Indoors Safer During…
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World-First Mining Standard Must Protect People and Hold…
This month, the first global standard to prevent mining catastrophes was…
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Cloth Masks Do Protect the Wearer – Breathing…
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Virtual Hackathons: Solve Coronavirus Problems Without Leaving Home
If you want to solve a problem quickly it helps to…
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Coronavirus: We’re in a Real-Time Laboratory of a…
A pause has been forced on urban life. Quiet roads, empty…
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Megacity Slums Incubate Disease – But the Coronavirus…
Having ravaged some of the world’s wealthiest cities, the coronavirus pandemic…
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The Coronavirus Is Breaking Global Supply Chains But…
As COVID-19 wreaks havoc on global supply chains, a trend of…
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How Changes Brought on by Coronavirus Could Help…
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Coronavirus: What Might More Handwashing Mean in Countries…
Different strategies for resisting the spread of the new coronavirus have…
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The Global Effort to Tackle the Coronavirus Face…
In recent weeks, two stories out of many about the shortage…
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Lessons from Rwanda on Tackling Unsafe Drinking Water…
Unsafe drinking water and household air pollution are major causes of…
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As the Climate Changes, Architects and Engineers Need…
In the past seven years, four major disasters have caused serious…
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Better Batteries Fuel a Surge of Electric Scooters…
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We Used Smartphones to Screen Children for Vision…
Healthy hearing and vision in early childhood are the foundation for…
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New Technologies Can Be a Force for Good…
Sub-Saharan Africa is at a point where new technologies such as…
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How to Harness the Potential of a Massive…
Agbogbloshie in Ghana is a vast urban area that houses a…
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We Have the Blueprint for Liveable, Low-Carbon Cities.…
Over the past seven years more than 100 research projects at…
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How Buildings in Johannesburg Could Benefit from Green…
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We Built an App to Detect Areas Most…
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Coding in South African Schools: What Needs to…
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How to Keep Buildings Cool Without Air Conditioning…
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How Africa’s Science Academies Can Help Drive Sustainable…
Many African countries have a long way to go to meet…
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As More Developing Countries Reject Plastic Waste Exports,…
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Why Jamaica is Winning the Green Tech Game
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How Urban Agriculture Improves Food Security in US…
During the partial federal shutdown in December 2018 and January 2019,…
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Mexico Wants Internet Access for All. Getting Everyone…
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Hurricane Kids: What Katrina Taught Us About Saving…
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Far-Sighted Adaptation to Rising Seas Is Blocked by…
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Shelter design can help people recover from homelessness
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‘Supermud’ bricks could help tackle the world’s housing…
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I Teach Refugees to Map Their Worlds
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Amazonian dirt roads are choking Brazil’s tropical streams
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Biomining the Elements of the Future
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