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By Katherine Gustafson | Thu Nov 19, 2009 12:46 PM ET

Some 2.5 billion people live without toilets, and more children die of sanitation-related diseases than any others. Today we recognize how important toilets are. Read More

More like this in: Health, Children, Water

By Chaniga Vorasarun | Tue Nov 17, 2009 6:23 PM ET

And you thought that pair of knock-off Adidas was apalling. Read More

More like this in: Starbucks, Nike, Business, Fashion, China, Sneakers, Louis Vuitton, Dolce & Gabbana

By Katherine Gustafson | Tue Nov 17, 2009 12:28 PM ET

Today's Leonid shower will be hard to see from the US but cosmic nonetheless. Read More

More like this in: Europe, National Geographic, Meteor Showers

By Marc Hertz | Mon Nov 16, 2009 6:56 PM ET

The president answers a question about Twitter use in China and reveals his own lack of experience microblogging. Read More

More like this in: Barack Obama, The New York Times, Twitter, China

By Katherine Gustafson | Mon Nov 16, 2009 12:34 PM ET

How to clean up your pollution and improve your highways at the same time. Read More

More like this in: The New York Times, India, Pollution, Film, Beaches, Asphalt

By Katherine Gustafson | Mon Nov 16, 2009 9:27 AM ET

The religious scholar and author’s inspired Charter for Compassion breathes new life into the Golden Rule. Read More

More like this in: Love, Kindness, Compassion, Spirituality, Religion, The Internet, Call to Action, Karen Armstrong

By David Bois | Thu Nov 12, 2009 3:32 PM ET

There's a buzz about the great gains made and still underway by Johns Hopkins researchers striving towards an end to malaria. Read More

More like this in: Hope, Malaria, Zambia, Biology, Johns Hopkins University

By Katherine Gustafson | Thu Nov 12, 2009 11:56 AM ET

A Gates Foundation-funded study by University of California researchers will test alternative methods to save children from diarrheal diseases. Read More

More like this in: Health, California, Water, Kenya, Death, University of California, World Health Organization, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (B&MGF), Bangladesh, Hygiene, Water Quality

By Katherine Gustafson | Thu Nov 12, 2009 9:46 AM ET

The org Video Volunteers is on the leading edge of the next social change revolution: giving the poor a voice for change via digital media. Read More

More like this in: Education, India, YouTube, Television, Film, mtv, Entrepreneurship, Cameras, Domestic Violence, Third World and Developing Countries, Social entrepreneurship

By Katherine Gustafson | Wed Nov 11, 2009 5:19 PM ET

At the Maldives Forum for Climate Vulnerable Countries, those nations most threatened by a changing climate vow to take the lead on action. Read More

More like this in: Climate change, Global Warming, Emissions, Kenya, Vietnam, Ghana, Tanzania, Nepal, Bangladesh, Maldives, Glaciers, Bhutan