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UNITED NATIONS - When the worlds rising population hit the historic seven billion milestone last October, the United Nations predicted that population growth will continue to increase, reaching...

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CLIMATE - A fast-track technology called marker-assisted selection, or molecular breeding, is helping agronomists more quickly adapt crops to global warming and the accompanying challenges, suc...

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HEALTH - British researchers have released genetically modified mosquitoes into the wild in a bid to combat the spread of dengue fever. The disease infects 50 million people a year and causes a...

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UNITED NATIONS - The World Meteorological Organization has launched a tool to exchange information on weather-related events in a bid to promote disaster risk reduction and improved resource ma...

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FOOD - Drought and famine are not unexpected events but rather a predictable result of a global food system riddled with inequality and imbalance, says the United Nations special rapporteur on ...