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Students at the Commonwealth Elementary School in Quezon City learn the proper way to wash hands with soap. More than 2 million children worldwide die of diarrhea every year, says the World Health Organization, yet the simple act of handwashing is the most cost-effective way of saving half of them.

A new report from the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) predicts that alternative energy technologies will create millions of new jobs over the next twenty years, including 11 million in the biofuels industry alone.

China's Ministry of Environmental Protection, the United Nations Environment Program and Dow Chemical (China) have signed an agreement to collaborate on promoting chemical safety and emergency preparedness in the chemical industry in China.

Daily TIPs, Republican National Convention, Bandwidth Neil Savage wrote: Conventions Draw Citizen Journalists It’s not just the presidential candidates who are taking advantage of new technologies in this year’s campaign. As CNET News tells us, citizen journalists are recording and broadcasting events in unprecedented numbers and formats.

Coastal Dead Zones Are Growing Posted on August 15, 2008 by jaggerkieth Over the past two or three decades, scientists have noticed with growing alarm that vast stretches of coastal waters are turning into dead zones — patches of seabed so depleted of oxygen that few creatures, if any, can survive there.

In The News (July 2) Posted on July 2, 2008 by Dennis Pfaff Global investment in sustainable energy broke all previous records in 2007, with more than $148 billion of new money raised, 60 percent more than the previous year, with wind driving much of the investment activity, according to a report for the United Nations environment program.

For those of you having problems reading this text, please place your cursor over the text and hold down the control key on your keyboard, (CTRL), and with the wheel of your mouse, roll the wheel towards yourself. This will increase the text size. In reading NewsWithViews today I came across an article that was rather stunning in its conclusions.

Lots of meaty stories leading up to Thursday’s World Environment Day sponsored by the United Nations Environment Programme: ENS news service - Heads of state and 87 ministers from around the world have reinforced their commitment to “substantially reduce” the global loss of biodiversity within two years.

Hi Brit, Taking advantage of the cover given by our elections, the insane climb of oil prices, and the release of the latest Indiana Jones movie, the Global Warming Fanatics have taken the next step at driving the world’s population back to a living in a hunter-gather society.  In a recent news

Amidst the controversy, media attention and calls for boycotts, Beijing continues to try to convince the world that the 2008 Summer Olympics will earn the title, the “Green Olympics.” According to the Seattle Time’s Daniel Beekman who is Blogging Beijing: A slew of ambitious ‘green’ campaigns have indisputably transformed the city and garnered international attention.