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U.N. to plant 1 million trees to fight deforestation near Ethiopia refugee camps

Deforestation – Feb 8, 2017

Ethiopians alight from a boat at the Blue Nile falls, 30km from Bahir Dar, April 19, 2011.

Cool insights for a hot world: Trees and forests recycle water

Forests – Feb 10, 2017

via World Agroforestry Centre

In race to clean energy, emerging nations seize bigger role – World Bank

Energy – Feb 15, 2017

In this 2013 file photo, a boy stands in front of wind turbines at the Ashegoda Wind Farm, near a village in Mekelle, Tigray, 780 km (485 miles) north of Addis Ababa.

Unleash the entrepreneur in every small farmer - new U.N. agency chief

Agriculture – Feb 15, 2017

In this file 2011 photo, former Prime Minister of Togo Gilbert Fossoun Houngbo addresses the 66th United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters, in New York.

Wooden "plyscrapers" challenge concrete and steel

Urban design – Feb 23, 2017

via Reuters

Designer forests: Scientists hope to tune up Canada's trees to thrive in changing climate

Deforestation – Feb 28, 2017

via Vancouver Sun

Climate change is a threat – but it won't hurt me, Americans say

Environment – Mar 1, 2017

A house sits undamaged in the aftermath of the Black Forest Fire in Black Forest, Colorado June 13, 2013.

World Bank's medicine for Thailand: more jobs, green protection

Jobs – Mar 13, 2017

In this 2011 archive photo a woman carrying a basket of papayas walks through a vegetable market in Bangkok.

U.N. pushes 'smart crops' as rice alternative to tackle hunger in Asia

Food – Mar 14, 2017

A farmer plants saplings in a rice field in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima prefecture, Japan, July 8, 2015.

'Billion tree tsunami' surges across northern Pakistan

Forests – Mar 16, 2017

Former cricketer Imran Khan tours a tree nursery in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.

Put the rainfall and air-conditioning back into trees, scientists say

Forests – Mar 21, 2017

Wild bluebells form a carpet in the Hallerbos, also known as the "Blue Forest", near the Belgian city of Halle, Belgium April 17, 2016.

Despite growth, one in 10 Asians live in extreme poverty

Poverty – Mar 29, 2017

Women wrap themselves in blankets in a government shelter for homeless people to escape the cold in Delhi, India

Cameroon steps up reforestation efforts – but forest loss continues

Forests – Mar 30, 2017

A truck loads timber in Bertoua, East Cameroon

High-res mapping and locals join forces in India to restore deforested land

Forests – Mar 28, 2017

A man walks under a barricade pole installed to check passing vehicles by Indian forest officials at the remote district of Kandhamal in the eastern Indian state of Orissa in this 2012 archive photo.

As cities surge, careful planning needed for the 'invisible' poor

Urban planning – Apr 5, 2017

Local shoe menders work along a street in Ebutte meta district in Lagos,Nigeria July 28, 2016.

More community workers needed for the "last mile" on healthcare - doctor

Access to healthcare – Apr 5, 2017

A Last Mile Health community health worker treats a patient.

Brazil's land titles programme improves Amazon forest protection - research

Forests – Apr 5, 2017

Sawmills that process illegally logged trees from the Amazon rainforest are seen near Rio Pardo, in the district of Porto Velho, Rondonia State, Brazil, in this 2015 archive photo.

Latin America's poor need more help to tackle Zika: UN

Disease control – Apr 6, 2017

Raquel Barbosa bathes her daughter Heloisa, who has a twin sister named Heloa, both 10 months old and both born with microcephaly, at her house in Areia, Paraiba state, Brazil

Attract youth to farming in Nigeria to fight extremism, says campaigner

Farming – Apr 7, 2017

Kola Masha, Managing Director of Babban Gona and winner of the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship.

Hundreds of millions of poor menaced by 'silent killer': heat

Heat – Apr 12, 2017

A worker takes a bath from the water of a bore pump on a hot summer day in Gurgaon, India, May 29, 2015.