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Dreams of the Bottom Billion - A New Approach To Curing W...

Samatha Herman

Why has the readily available and continuous wide-spread access to information not yet eradicated poverty in much of the world? Anik Singal explores how one ...

Impact investing in India could touch $6-8 billion by 202...

Samatha Herman

New Delhi: Impact investments in India is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 20-24 per cent to touch US$ 6-8 billion by 2025, from US$

Paul Graham on Building Companies for Fast Growth

Samatha Herman

Graham's tech accelerator, Y Combinator, has minted many big hits, including Dropbox, Reddit, and Airbnb. Here's a conversation with the start-up guru.

Premier stresses gender equality, care for children - Xin...

Efren Emard

Premier stresses gender equality, care for children---Premier Li Keqiang urged continued efforts to implement the basic state policy of gender equality and the principle of prioritizing the development of children's education.

AfHDR 2016 – pathways to reduce persistent gender inequality

Efren Emard

Freetown November 28, 2016: The 2016 African Human Development Report (AHDR) launched today offers pathways to reducing the persistent gender inequality in Africa. The report titled “Accelerating Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment in Africa,”...

Gaps in gender equality may fuel disparities in cognitive...

Efren Emard

Slight gender variations in attention scores have been well documented, but a new study from Harvard Medical School suggests that these minor gaps widen significantly in places with lower gender equality.

Solar panel farm grows 17,000 tons of food without soil, ...

Sean DuBuque

A new agricultural technique may have just solved the problem of growing food in some of the world's most inhospitable places – locations that don't currently support traditional agriculture. In addition, the technique can save what are clearly...

Polar species spotted in the deep seas of the Mediterranean

Sherwood Treutel

A host of invasive species, including some polar species, have been spotted in the eastern Mediterranean off the coast of Lebanon, some of them wreaking havoc

Tesco and Sainsbury's ban plastic cotton buds to cut waste

Sherwood Treutel

UK’s two largest supermarket chains will replace the plastic stems with paper ones in all own-brand products by the end of 2017

Saving white sharks - a model for saving the world | Chri...

Sherwood Treutel

Have Great White Sharks shown us how to create a future for our planet? Chris Fischer, Founding Chairman & Expedition Leader of OCEARCH who is also commonly ...