Premier stresses gender equality, care for children---Premier Li Keqiang urged continued efforts to implement the basic state policy of gender equality and the principle of prioritizing the development of children's education.

Freetown November 28, 2016: The 2016 African Human Development Report (AHDR) launched today offers pathways to reducing the persistent gender inequality in Africa. The report titled “Accelerating Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment in Africa,”...

Slight gender variations in attention scores have been well documented, but a new study from Harvard Medical School suggests that these minor gaps widen significantly in places with lower gender equality.

A new agricultural technique may have just solved the problem of growing food in some of the world's most inhospitable places – locations that don't currently support traditional agriculture. In addition, the technique can save what are clearly...

A host of invasive species, including some polar species, have been spotted in the eastern Mediterranean off the coast of Lebanon, some of them wreaking havoc

UK’s two largest supermarket chains will replace the plastic stems with paper ones in all own-brand products by the end of 2017

Have Great White Sharks shown us how to create a future for our planet? Chris Fischer, Founding Chairman & Expedition Leader of OCEARCH who is also commonly ...

In 1667, Danish naturalist Nicolaus Steno made a discovery that forever changed the way we viewed the oceans forever: a megalodon sharks tooth.

Clever Buoy uses sonar and sophisticated software to detect the distinctive movement patterns made by sharks

Few moments have so profoundly altered our understanding of what it means to be a living thing on Planet Earth as the discovery of deep-sea hydrothermal vents and the organisms that thrive around t…