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Five Nobel Prize winners publish scientific article collection for children

Frontiers

Quasi-Crystal, Not Quasi-Scientist , written by Dan Shechtman , awarded The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2011. UN Sustainable Development Goals – Quality Education. The initiative is also part of Frontiers’ commitment to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, particularly Goal 4 – Quality Education.

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How we Conceptualize Security will Shape our Response to Environmental Challenges

HumanNature

Thus, it is crucial to understand how placing the environment alongside notions of security shapes the way environmental issues are understood and also governed by whom and for whom. Photo Credit: John Englart, Flickr References: Barnett, J., Climate Change, Human Security and Violent Conflict. Political Geography 26 (6): 639–655 Browning, C.,

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Building a More Resilient, Just City

Academy of Natural Sciences

Flooding on the Schuylkill River from Hurricane Irene, 2011. The program, which launched in 2011, is a 25-year effort to install stormwater runoff-absorbing green infrastructure and improve traditional infrastructure, easing the burden on our combined sewer system and reducing combined sewer overflows.

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Analysis: What challenges face Chile’s new ‘environmentalist’ government?

A Greener Life

A native of Chilean Patagonia, Boric became known as one of the leaders of the country’s student protests of 2011. Boric will become Chile ’s new president on 11 March, at just 36 years old, having defeated his far-right challenger, José Antonio Kast, in December’s historic vote.

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The Infamous Failure of the Eco-Patent Commons and the Quiet Success of the WIPO Green Project: What We Can Learn About Disseminating Green Tech to Developing Countries

Vermont Law

As the global climate crisis worsens, the need to encourage sustainable growth in the developing world has never been greater. Much of the technology for this sustainable development already exists, but is covered by exclusive patent rights. A detailed post-mortem on the program found a number of problems with the.

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How companies can save water

Edouard Stenger

To some amazing results : Since launching the Water<Less processes in 2011, we have saved more than 1 billion liters of water in the manufacturing of LS&Co. We’ve also saved 30 million liters of fresh water through the industry’s first Water Recycling and Reuse Standard , which we piloted with one of our vendors in China.

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Jayati Ghosh – It’s not just analysis, it’s a call for action

Frontiers

There’s one estimate that says that 80% of the carbon emissions between 1850 and 2011 (more than one and a half centuries) were caused by rich countries who made up 14% of the global population. Keeping with the topic of climate change, one part of the inequality is evident and it’s the discussion about carbon debt.