The United States government is backing plans to establish standards that can help boost the adoption and distribution of healthy and environmentally friendly cookstoves in millions of poor people's homes in the developing world.
Written by Sunrise Reporters Friday, 14 October 2011 07:53
New research has found that if you want some of the many health benefits associated with eating broccoli or other cruciferous vegetables, you need to eat the real thing - a key phytochemical in these vegetables is poorly absorbed and of far less value if taken as a supplement.The study, published by scientists in the Linus Pauling Institute at Oregon State University, is one of the first of its type to determine whether some of the healthy compounds found in cruciferous vegetables can be just as easily obtained through supplements.
Written by Henry Lutaaya Saturday, 20 November 2010 04:35
A key water resource that will grow in importance as climate change takes hold is currently going largely unmeasured — with big implications for poor communities in developing nations, says research published recently. The International Institute for Environment and Development’s study shows that hundreds of millions of urban people in such countries already depend on this hidden resource.
Water taken directly from wells rather than being piped to users from surface-water supplies such as rivers and reservoirs is rarely taken into account, and it is therefore being used invisibly.
A group of 10 medical and technical experts from Kenya arrived in Uganda to carry out complicated surgeries and other delicate operations on patients who sustained severe injuries during the July 11 bombing in Kampala.
The resignation last week of Yvo De Boer - as Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) - the UN organ responsible for designing the global framework for policy response to climate change, has cast more doubt on a multi-lateral approach to fighting one of man's most urgent problems.