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 ...

With a population of five million crammed on a landmass of just 715 square kilometres, the tiny republic of Singapore has been forced to expand upwards, building high-rise residential complexes to ...

DEVELOPMENT & SOCIETY 2009•10•08 Brendan F.D. Barrett Osaka University ...

The Climate News Network is a free, ready-to-use factual service that brings the latest news of climate change science. This network helps both scientists and journalists to overcome the difficulties ...

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 ...

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 ...

Caring for the Earth and for our environment seems to have been a notion dear to humankind since the dawn of time. Even to this day, many of those societies that are deemed “primitive” for having ...

In the previous article in this series, I argued that would-be reformers of the UN Security Council should learn from the current impasse by creating a more flexible membership basis — i.e., no new ...

Over four million Syrian refugees have fled Syria since 2011, with the majority seeking refuge in neighbouring countries. Five years into the crisis, and with no foreseeable end, it is of grave ...

Dr. Cosmin Corendea (S.J.D./GGU) works as Associate Academic Officer/Legal Expert at the UNU Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS) in Bonn, Germany. He is acting as focal point for ...

Last March, Tim Jackson put forward the idea of prosperity without growth in a report published by the United Kingdom’s Sustainable Development Commission and followed up with a book of the same name ...

E-waste is a term used to cover almost all types of electrical and electronic equipment that has or could enter the waste stream. It can apply to televisions, computers, mobile phones, ‘white goods’ ...