Fungi that attack wheat are growing as a threat to the hungry inhabitants of poor countries. At a conference this week in Aleppo, Syria, scientists will be planning a counteroffensive.

Maghreb/Middle East Renewable Energy Conference 2010
26-27 July 2010 - Marrakech, Morocco

The Maghreb/Middle East Renewable Energy Conference 2010 is organized to stimulate and provide a comprehensive, focused and operational framework for cooperation aimed at creating a renewable energy market for investors, project developers and funding/financing agencies in the regions and among actors and stakeholders at all levels to mobilize technology, innovation, expertise, capacity and financing required to build, develop and optimize the regions vast and untapped renewable energy as well as promote and address grid related incentives and challenges for renewable energy integration into the regions electricity systems.

The United
Nations Climate Change secretariat is pleased to announce the launch of
the third round of its fellowship programme, whose objective is to
contribute to building capacity for addressing climate change in Parties
not included in Annex I to the Convention, particularly in small island
developing States and least developed countries.

1GOAL: Education for All Campaign Outline

Who we are, what we have, what is coming up, how you can help

1) What is 1GOAL?
1GOAL: Education for All is a new campaign to ensure that every child around the world has the opportunity to go to school. FIFA and some of the biggest names in football are backing the 1GOAL campaign to deliver a legacy out of this year's World Cup; education for all. To achieve this, 1GOAL which is backed by over 100 organisations in over 100 countries will be putting pressure on governments around the world to deliver the extra $16 bn a year that is needed to pay for every child to attend school.