The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) published the 2024 Global Education Monitoring Report: Gender report – Technology on her terms in France in 2024. The report examines the impact of technology on girls' education opportunities and future technological development. It highlights ICT's potential to overcome educational barriers …
http://www.amphibiaweb.org Call it a virtual initiative to help a variety of animals, many of whose ancestors shared space with dinosaurs. The decline of amphibians has spurred a group of volunteers who run www.amphibiaweb.org: an online system that enables anyone with a web browser to look up information relating to amphibian …
Ten of thousands of contributors work to ensure that online encyclopedia Wikipedia is in a constant state of update. But now an innovation on the site has confirmed a long-held suspicion: Wikipedia is a prime target for spin-doctoring. A new identification programme on the site reveals that some of the …
http://www.peakoil.com In 1956 M King Hubbert, a geologist for Shell Oil, predicted that production of oil would peak in the 1960s, and will decline then. Although derided by most in the industry, he was correct. Hubbert was the first to assert that oil discovery, and therefore production, would follow a …
The uk's department of transport has launched a website designed to let car buyers choose the most environmentally friendly vehicle. The site, qww.dft.gov.uk/ActOnco2, allows buyers to search models by category, transmission and fuel type. It then provides them a list of the lowest co2 emitting models. "By choosing the car …
John Mackey, head of us organic foods group Whole Foods Market, is being investigated for posting messages on the Internet about a rival company. He used a pseudonym to make comments about Wild Oats, a firm Whole Foods is hoping to buy in a us $565 million deal. Finance watchdogs …
Officials in the Chinese city of Xiamen were forced to suspend plans for a paraxylene plant, after the town's residents organised a digital campaign that included blog posts, online signature campaigns and the distribution of nearly 1 million text messages. Paraxylene is a polluting, carcinogenic petrochemical used in the process …
www.dasani.com This website is prefaced by a question: "What makes your mouth water?' Before you have a moment to think, the answers come thick and fast. "The crisp taste of Dasani. Delicious Dasani flavours
People polluting water in the us state of Tennessee face online infamy. The state's department of environment and conservation has begun listing companies and individuals violating the Clean Water Act from June 26, 2007. The action is part of a public access bill that was passed as part of the …
Sewer ark http://www.sewerhistory.org/ Sanitation doesn't usually inspire literature; nor is it an attractive proposition for academics. Well, not usually. But over the last 15 years, Jon Schladweiler has made it his mission to prove that sludge indeed has been the artist's muse, if only rarely. With links to F M …
Bowing into global pressure, auction website eBay has decided to stop online ivory trading. On June 5, 2007, the first-ever online trading ban on ivory was announced in Amsterdam. The website will allow listings of ivory products only in the seller's country. The move comes after the International Fund for …
Soaring inflation and a chaotic governance has put Zimbabwe into its worst days. But its diaspora has pitched in to help, through a medium that the country's despotic regime can hardly tame: the Internet. Online portals like Mukuru.com, Zimbuyer.com and Zimland.com are helping the diaspora support relatives at home. The …
www.pttf.net/go/Managed by the Pune Traffic and Transportation Forum (PTTF), an ngo for sustainable transportation policy, the website promotes sustainable traffic practices. It asks the public to use public transport. "The public transport's per-capita usage of resources, per-capita pollution and per-capita accident rate is much lesser than a private vehicle,' says …
Access to Internet in rural and semi-urban India may be hit, if the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (trai) has its way. In a set of recommendations submitted to the Department of Telecom on May 10, trai has suggested that Internet Service Providers (isps) at the district level, which provide …
http://www.greenfacts.org This site under review is run by an eponymous Belgian non-profit organisation, created in December 2001 by individuals from a variety of backgrounds. It brings complex scientific reports on health and the environment to non-specialists. As a contribution to the International Day for Biological Diversity, green facts has also …
Estonia has recently accused Russia of waging a cyber war against it. It said the country's websites were under attack, which came from networks hosted by Russian state computer servers. Head of it security at Estonia's defence ministry, Mikhail Tammet, said the attacks affected the functioning of the government since …
http://www.eol.org/ Five major universities in the us are on a mission to create the Earth's book of life. According to the researchers, over the next 10 years, information about the planet's 1.8 million species will be available for free on web. This project has been initiated by the Harvard University, …
Fertile herbs A cocktail of herbal drugs can cure male infertility caused by diabetes, claims a research team from West Bengal. The team from Vidyasagar University has found that the cocktail produced from banana root, tamarind, jamun seeds and ivy gourd leaves not only decreased levels of blood glucose but …
An alternative to car culture? www.worldcarfree.net Almost all of us have, at some point, rued our slavish dependence on cars. But the exasperation has always been fleeting. Most of us bear with traffic congestion and car breakdowns and brave unsafe roads, comforting ourselves with the thought that there are no …
