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Climate funding for poor countries should not add to their debt burden – UN expert Special Rapporteur on the effects of foreign debt on human rights, Cephas Lumina. UN Photo/Jean-Marc Ferré Financing received through the proposed Green Climate Fund should not exacerbate developing countries’ debt burdens, an independent United Nations human rights expert said today, […]
Traumatic injury sets off a ‘genomic storm’ New research overturns longstanding assumption “Burn patients may take months to years to recover from their injuries, while trauma patients who are going to recover usually do so within a month. So it was entirely unexpected that gene expression patterns in burns and trauma patients changed in exactly […]
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Time to fight back against ‘cancer’ of corruption – UN chief No country, region or community is immune to corruption, a serious crime that can undermine social and economic development in all societies Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is urging everyone to do their part to stamp out corruption, which afflicts all countries, undermining social progress and breeding […]
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UN, Luxembourg partner to strengthen emergency telecoms A satellite dish, facing the East River, sits on the snow-covered grounds of UN Headquarters. The United Nations International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and Luxembourg today announced that they have agreed to cooperate on strengthening emergency telecommunications and rapid responses whenever natural disasters strike. ITU and Luxembourg are both members of […]
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Food prices remain steady during November, UN agency reports Global food prices in November were virtually unchanged from October, and 10 per cent below their peak in February, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reported today. FAO’s Food Price Index level was 215 points last month – just two points, or one per cent, above […]
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Researchers find best routes to self-assembling 3-D shapes Researchers at Brown and Johns Hopkins universities have found optimal configurations for creating 3-D geometric shapes — like tiny, highly simplified geodesic domes that assemble by themselves. The Brown team developed the algorithmic tools, and the Johns Hopkins team tested selected configurations. The research may lead to […]
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Three professors named AAAS fellows Barry Connors, Diane Lipscombe, and David Rand have been named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. They will be officially welcomed as fellows on Saturday, Feb. 18, 2012, at the AAAS Annual Meeting in Vancouver, B.C. PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — Three members of the Brown University […]
Gene expression study made easy: Just sequence all of it Next-generation sequencers / Eric Morrow, postdoctoral scholar Ece Gamsiz, and colleagues have sequenced the entire “transcriptome” of the mouse neural retina. They used “game-changing” technology that would have been prohibitively expensive even five years ago./Credit: Mike Cohea/Brown University In a new study, researchers have gained new insights into neural […]
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UN agency, Italian energy company partner to combat hunger and climate change The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and the Italian energy company Enel announced today a new partnership to combat hunger and malnutrition while also reducing carbon emissions through the use of ‘green’ stoves and solar panels.The €8 million agreement was unveiled at the UN […]
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Afghanistan and regional partners launch UN plan to boost counter-narcotics efforts UNODC Executive Director Yury Fedotov. UN Photo/Evan Schneider Senior officials from Afghanistan and neighbouring countries today launched a United Nations plan to strengthen counter-narcotics efforts and boost regional stability. The launch of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) 2011- 2014 Regional Programme […]
