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In Southeast Asia, India Leads In Child Mortality

India accounts for maximum number of newborn deaths in Southeast Asia region. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), out of the total deaths in the region, more ...

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Environment

NO2 Emission Rising In India, New NASA Air Quality Maps Show.

The emission of the nitrogen dioxide pollutant has gone up significantly in the South Asia region, including India, during the 2005-2014 period, severely affecting air qual...

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Sustainable Development

Development Banking For Sustainability

National development banks can play a decisive role in financing the Sustainable Development Goals and the transition to a low-carbon energy future. Given their size and po...

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Environment

This Is The End Of Fossil Fuels

Le Bourget, France (CNN) For Selina Leem, an 18-year-old from a tiny part of the Marshall Islands in the middle of the Pacific, the adoption of?Saturday's?"Paris Agreement"...

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Sustainable Development

NITI Aayog To Soon Unveil Policy On Important Sectors

Taking forward its project of creating a national agenda in consultation with the states, the NITI Aayog will soon come out with policy papers on critical sectors such as a...

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Sustainable Development

A Low Carbon Future Is Possible

At Paris this week in the hottest year in recorded history, there are expectations that a global legally binding agreement on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions will be adopted...

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Environment

A Low Carbon Future Is?Possible

At Paris this week in the hottest year in recorded history, there are expectations that a global legally binding agreement on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions will be adopted...

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Sustainable Development

What Happens If Someone Uses This DIY Gene Hacking Kit To Make Mutant Bacteria?

The campaign, called "DIY CRISPR Kits, Learn Modern Science By Doing" was started by Josiah Zayner, a synthetic biologist and research fellow at NASA Ames Research Center. ...

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Sustainable Development

Engineers Combine Biological Energy-Harvesting With Electronic Circuits

Previous experiments have accomplished similar-sounding schemes—energy harvested within an inner-ear, tree-powered nanoelectronics—but with the critical limitat...

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Sustainable Development

Kickstarter Is Funding Investigative Journalism (About a Failed Kickstarter)

Kickstarter has commissioned tech journalist Mark Harris to investigate and report on one of the company’s most high-profile failed campaigns to date: the&n...

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