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The global economy grew last year, carbon emissions didn't. What's going on?

Maybe it wasn’t a blip.

98% of women in Somalia have undergone female genital mutilation

The practice of female genital mutilation is more widespread, and affects many more women and girls, than previously thought, according to a new report from Unicef.

How this simple solar innovation saves lives

Petra Wadström, a Swedish designer and artist now in her 60s, doesn’t have an engineering background. Back in 2005, when she came up with the idea for Solvatten—a piece of equipment that ...

Has Africa become a testing ground for new renewable tech?

Distributed power—where electricity is generated locally, instead of delivered via complex grid infrastructure—makes lots of sense for Africa. About 600 million Africans don’t have electr...

Good news on climate: CO2 emissions are actually falling

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