Every minute of every day, our global family welcomes 255 babies into the world. That’s 134 million new mouths to feed every year, for a total population increase of 2.2 billion in the next thirty ...

1995年の北京宣言と行動綱領は、世界の女性の平等、開発、平和のための野心的な目標を設定した。189カ国の賛同を得たこの宣言は、女性の権利が人権であることを再確認し、人生のあらゆる ...

人工知能（AI）を取り巻く環境は、画像処理装置（GPU）への依存から脱却しつつあり、大きな変革期を迎えている。当初は画像をレンダリング（処理もしくは演算）するために設計された ...

Mostly unreported as the Ukraine conflict captures headlines, international financing has played a significant role in the current situation there. In late 2013, conflict between pro-European Union ...

Millions of mobile phones, laptops, tablets, toys, digital cameras and other electronic devices bought this Christmas are destined to create a flood of dangerous “e-waste” that is being dumped ...

Every minute, an estimated 20 people are forcibly displaced due to conflict, persecution, or war. Of the 68.5 million forcibly displaced people worldwide, 25.4 million are refugees. Compounding the ...

Renewable energy is helping to power increasing numbers of the world’s road vehicles. Now several European countries are exploring the potential for using renewables to fuel their trains. In the ...

The bean counters at the World Wildlife Fund found that it takes more than 200 litres of water just to produce one cup of latte coffee (see video below). Water wastage is only one aspect of the total ...

Fuelled by a growing international appetite for leather, the industry represents a sizeable chunk of Bangladesh’s yearly export revenues — $284 million in 2007-08. There are about 200 leather ...

Lake Chad has literally gone from being an oasis in the desert, to being just desert. Spanning the countries of Chad, Nigeria, Niger and Cameroon and bordering the Sahara desert, Lake Chad has ...

Does climate change cause conflict? It really depends on who you ask. Warming increases the risk of civil war in Africa is the title of a new research paper tabled in the Proceedings of the United ...

Jared Diamond famously stated that “the biggest problems facing the world today are not at all beyond our control, rather they are all of our own making, and entirely in our power to deal with” when ...