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Sara Menker and Gro Intelligence are tackling global hunger
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Sara Menker and Gro Intelligence are tackling global hunger

The Ethiopian entrepreneur Sara Menker founded Gro Intelligence, which uses artificial intelligence to forecast global agricultural trends and battle food insecurity.
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Millions more people got access to clean drinking water. Can they drink it?
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Millions more people got access to clean drinking water. Can they drink it?

The U.N. pledged to halve the proportion of the world without access to clean drinking water by 2015.
ORIGINAL REPORTING
An illustration of three office workers who are carrying their belongings in boxes after layoff and a chart showing some people crossed out in red.

Trump administration moves forward with federal layoffs after Supreme Court ruling

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Texas flooding puts scaled-back FEMA under scrutiny

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Texas flood disaster reveals rising human cost of climate-fueled extreme weather

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Trump administration redirects clean energy funds in defiance of Congress

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Scientists call on UN to adopt bold ocean policies to combat climate and biodiversity threats

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EU ocean protection plan draws fire for weak enforcement and lack of binding goals

CLIMATE
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Trump’s NOAA nominee backs deep budget cuts amid rising disaster toll

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Democratic senator says fossil fuel lobbying has silenced climate action in Congress