One year ago, the Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet (GEAAP) was launched at COP26 with an urgent mission: to change the trajectory of greenhouse gas damage while ending…
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Over the past two centuries, economists, policy makers, and researchers have aspired to “harden” social science. A lot of progress has been made: using randomized, controlled experiments; making “evidence-based” decisions;…
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Across the globe, over 20,000 highly experienced and exceptionally productive data scientists, AI engineers, designers, and thinkers make up the DataKind community. This base of pro bono volunteer experts is…
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More than 90 percent of the country’s coal plants are contaminating water across 43 states, according to a new report. And nearly half of them have no plans to clean up…
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While recent months have seen some easing in the pace of price increases, with the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization Food Price Index falling from the all-time-high it reached in March 2022,…
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During hurricanes, flash flooding and other disasters, it can be extremely dangerous to send in first responders, even though people may badly need help. Rescuers already use drones in some…
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Click here for more.The pandemic has been a great disruptor for many industries and, in some cases, hastened overdue changes. Across many growth markets, it helped accelerate an ongoing transformation in the social…
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Click here for more.In a volcanic hot spring in Yellowstone National Park is an organism we can learn a lot from. Its scientific name is Fusarium strain flavolapis. It lives in an extremely…
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Food and agriculture systems are on the agenda at the U.N. Climate Change Conference (COP27) this year for the first time. In addition to more than 300 live events, new reports…
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According to a United Nations senior official, the world’s topsoil could be gone within 60 years. The Dust Bowl in the 1930s in the United States is one example of how…
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Click here for more.Many of us are familiar with the tension between the needs of nonprofits and the giving levels of foundations during economic downturns. At a moment when many nonprofits seek to…
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“The WHO is,” says Oyewale Tomori, “well, I know the W stands for World, but sometimes I think it stands for White.” Tomori is a virologist at Redeemer’s University and the…