Islamabad(SANA)Electricity trading with Pakistan is part of a larger plan of a South Asian transmission link, which will help countries in the sub-continent harness energy potential of the region.

Joe Palca

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An Anopheles albimanus mosquito, which is an important vector for malaria transmission in Central America.

JUSTIN GILLIS

For two decades, the world’s governments have failed to meet their own commitment to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide, the main heat-trapping gas.

Wil Longbottom

• Trip of a lifetime would take the best part of three weeks through picturesque Alaska and Siberia
• Russia set to complete extension of rail network to tip of Siberia by 2030

Matt Ball

The United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) voted to establish a committee on global geospatial information management in order to enhance international dialogue and cooperation on spatial data infrastructures.

ALEXIS FLYNN, WILL CONNORS

People who live in the poorest and remotest parts of the developing world often have their lives cut short by disease -- preventable or curable disease. The first essential step to fighting these diseases is correctly identifying them.

Yakout Mansour

There is a new tool sharpening California's renewable vision. It is in the form of a state-of-the-art system control center that houses the first dedicated renewables dispatch facility in the nation.

David Chandler, MIT

"Very radical" concept could be a game-changer for the solar industry.

Erik Kjems