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But in the years since, progress has been so slow that even some of the world's most well-known environmentalists are now calling for a rethink, the New York Times reports.
"It's time for the international community to wake up to the fact that climate change is real, it's happening, and it's not going to go away," said Evangeline Lilly, the Oscar-winning actress and executive director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria.
"It's not going to go away, and it's not going to go away for good," she said last week in Bangkok, Thailand, where she's taking part in the 10th Asia-Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development.
The forum, organized by the UN's Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, aims to chart the region's path toward the goals, which include reducing greenhouse gas emissions to mitigate the effects of global warming, providing access to safe drinking water, and improving the lives of the planet's poorest people, among other things.
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The over-the-counter ( OTC) pediatric healthcare market is expected to grow at a significant rate over the next five years, according to a new report published by Prophecy Market Insights.
The...more
The mental health of college athletes is a hot-button topicand now it's going to get a lot more attention.
The Ballmer Institute for Children's Behavioral Health at the University of Oregon is...more
It's that time of year again: time to stock up on the latest must-have toy for your little one.
This year, it's the Himiway C1 Kids Ebike, which is, as its name suggests, an electric bike for...more
If you're looking for a kid's bed that won't need to be replaced as the child grows, the Big Eyes Bed might be just what you're looking for.
It's a mid-high bed that turns into a basic bed when...more
The World Health Organization has set Nov.
20 as World Children's Day to call attention to the millions of children worldwide who don't have access to the medicines they need to live a long,...more
For the first time in its history, Qatar is holding a national science and innovation competition for elementary and high school students, the BBC reports.
The competition, called National...more
"Three times as many children as there are licensed child care slots," Caitlin Jensen writes on the Zero to Five Montana website.
"That doesn't just affect parents, it affects the growth of our...more
On the heels of the release of the fifth National Climate Assessment, which found that climate change is already taking a heavy toll on the US, President Biden is announcing $6 billion in...more
"We want to first of all, recruit the best and brightest tutors and we want to make sure they're incentivized to actually get the performance of the students greatly increased," Oklahoma's...more
When Ferran Adris opened the restaurant El Bulli in Barcelona in the 1970s, it was billed as "the epicenter of innovative gastronomy."
Today, it's more like "a theater show, maybe more like a...more
Ontario, Canada is seeing an emergence of thousands of social enterprises and the Ontario government hopes to tap into the social enterprise movement.