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United Nations Teams up With Google
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In Food Shortage, The World Looks to the Potato
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Humanity Needs to Start Farming Bugs for Food, Says United Nations Policy Paper
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John Kerry: The Assad Regime Used Chemical Weapons
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The Most Depressing Climate Change Visualizations From Today's IPCC Report
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Facebook CEO Tells U.N. That Global Internet Should Start In Refugee Camps
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United Nations Teams up With Google
Science How the UN is using Google technology to increase awareness of refugee camps The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has teamed up with Google to give anyone...
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In Food Shortage, The World Looks to the Potato
Science Can the humble tuber relieve some of the pressure on the strained worldwide grain market? The UN thinks so. Quite a lot has been written in search of the root causes of the recent global...
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Humanity Needs to Start Farming Bugs for Food, Says United Nations Policy Paper
Science The raising of livestock consumes two-thirds of the planet's farmland, and is a major source of greenhouse gases. Meanwhile, tons of edible, sustainable protein swarms all… The raising of...
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John Kerry: The Assad Regime Used Chemical Weapons
Technology Speaking from the podium at the State Department briefing room today, Secretary of State John Kerry lambasted the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for firing… Speaking from...
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The Most Depressing Climate Change Visualizations From Today's IPCC Report
Science See where Earth is heating up. Remember that leaked draft of the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report that gave us "stronger-than-ever evidence that global warming is driven...
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Facebook CEO Tells U.N. That Global Internet Should Start In Refugee Camps
Technology Mark Zuckerberg 'friends' key global leaders Saturday's assembly of the United Nations brought speakers from all walks of life, among them Nobel Prize Laureate Malala Yousefzai, Pope...
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