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Over the weekend, 60 young, innovative software developers, engineers, designers, and technologists from Kathmandu came together at the NASA International Space Apps Challenge: Kathmandu Hackathon to develop solutions to pressing global problems. The winning team, Mars Odyssey, consisting of Binayak Dhakal, Roshan Bhatta, and Sakar Pudasaini, developed an easy-to-use tool to teach children...
The 1st Annual World Congress of Biodiversity-2012 was held in Xi’an last April and played a special role in advancing the understanding and a proactive approach to Biodiversity. Inspired by outstanding keynote lectures by ten Nobel laureates, nearly 200 expert speakers from more than 29 countries shared their views, concerns and achievements. The focus of BioD-2012...
The Climate Reality Leadership Corps is excited to share with you news about Climate Reality's Leadership Corps trainings. With their Chairman, former Vice President Al Gore, they are pleased to announce a U.S. training in Chicago July 30 - August 1 to train new Climate Leaders volunteers from the U.S. and Canada and an Istanbul, Turkey training on June 14 - 16 focused on...
The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) is organizing a Digital Photo Contest on the theme of 'Water and Life' to celebrate its 30th Anniversary. This contest also coincides with the United Nation’s International Year of Water Cooperation 2013.
The photo contest aims to draw the attention of the public, policymakers and relevant stakeholders to the...
India, the world’s third-largest emitter of planet-warming carbon dioxide, will likely this year commission four studies to evaluate when the country could take on legally-binding curbs on its greenhouse gas emissions, according to the Times of India on Wednesday.
The paper claimed the studies will focus on when India’s emissions are likely to peak, how best the nation can cut emissions...
A new output from the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), the report on an international workshop on "Scaling up Climate Services for Farmers in Africa and South Asia," available at:
On 8-19 April, the UN Forum on Forest 10 (UNFF) will gather the world community to focus on some of the pressing issues at stake to secure healthy forests worldwide. Jan McAlpine, Director of the UN Forum on Forest Secretariat, shared some of her hopes for this major event and beyond, in an exclusive DESA News interview.
Forests cover one third of the Earth’s land mass,...
The distribution of water in Asia's highest mountains and driest deserts tells an important story of climate change.
Almost half the world's population gets its water from glacier melt and rainfall in the Himalayas and other lofty peaks, yet little is...
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