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WHO: Air Pollution Conference Aims High to Cut Deaths

GENEVA — Participants at the first ever WHO Global Conference on Air Pollution have adopted a plan for reducing air pollution, which every year prematurely kills an estimated seven million people. The World...

Scientists Set Out to Map Genome of All Life Forms on Earth

Scientists across the world have set an ambitious goal for themselves: to sequence the genome of every known life form on Earth within the next decade. The Earth BioGenome Project, launched this...

Fathers’ Exercise Impacts the Health of Their Children

Many people know that a woman's health, including her diet and exercise habits, can impact the health of her baby even before she gets pregnant. But, until recently, little was known...

Rescue Robot to Help Revive Australia’s Great Barrier Reef

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA — For the first time an underwater robot is to be used to plant baby coral to parts of Australia's Great Barrier Reef damaged by mass bleaching, as scientists plan...

Corporate Pledge to Deal With Plastic Draws Mixed Reaction

More than 250 corporate signatories joined together to try and deal with plastic pollution in an announcement timed to coincide with the 5th Annual "Our Ocean Conference" in Bali, Indonesia. Under terms...

WHO: Air Pollution a Health Risk for Children

GENEVA — The World Health Organization says air pollution kills hundreds of thousands of children every year and puts the physical health and neurological development of hundreds of millions of other youngsters...

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