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The World Bank launched a fund in Reykjavik on Wednesday to come up with $500 million for developing geothermal energy in developing countries. http://phys.org/news281803928.html Technology Wed, 06 Mar 2013 14:52:14 EST news281803928 The president of the World Bank on Saturday warned the finance chiefs of the world's leading economic powers that global warming is a real risk to the planet and already affecting the world economy in unprecedented ways. http://phys.org/news280311445.html Space & Earth Sun, 17 Feb 2013 08:30:01 EST news280311445 (AP)—The Middle East and North Africa will be especially hard hit by climate change in the coming decades, the World Bank said in a report Wednesday, saying the region will see less rainfall, more recording-breaking temperatures and rising sea levels. http://phys.org/news273905948.html Space & Earth Wed, 05 Dec 2012 04:59:17 EST news273905948 The World Bank warned that global temperatures could rise by four degrees this century without immediate action, with potentially devastating consequences for coastal cities and the poor. http://phys.org/news272522628.html Space & Earth Mon, 19 Nov 2012 04:43:59 EST news272522628 The European Union and the United States should stop using biofuels as they are hampering food production, the UN's special rapporteur for the right to food Olivier De Schutter told AFP on Wednesday. http://phys.org/news269703692.html Technology Wed, 17 Oct 2012 14:41:48 EST news269703692 (Phys.org) -- Atheists and believers alike will repeatedly sacrifice large portions of their income to unresponsive entities in the hope of a better outcome, a new study suggests. http://phys.org/news264757182.html Other Sciences Tue, 21 Aug 2012 08:40:02 EST news264757182 The World Bank said on Monday it plans to buy carbon credits from pig farms in the Philippines, helping farmers generate extra income by setting up environment friendly waste treatment facilities. http://phys.org/news263486316.html Space & Earth Mon, 06 Aug 2012 15:38:46 EST news263486316 Unfair and exploitative political agreements allow Europeans to eat fish from the plates of developing countries, according to a study led by University of British Columbia researchers. http://phys.org/news260548330.html Biology Tue, 03 Jul 2012 15:32:15 EST news260548330 The world's city dwellers are fast producing more and more trash in a "looming crisis" that will pose huge financial and environmental burdens, the World Bank is warning. http://phys.org/news258259667.html Space & Earth Thu, 07 Jun 2012 04:30:01 EST news258259667 The World Bank was on Friday to propose a coalition of governments, global organisations and other groups to protect the oceans, aiming to raise $1.5 billion in the next five years for the purpose. http://phys.org/news249280823.html Space & Earth Fri, 24 Feb 2012 04:50:01 EST news249280823 When food prices spiked in 2008, the number of households that moved into poverty was overestimated by about 60 percent, according to a recent University of Illinois study. In middle-income countries such as Mexico that have more diversity in their diets, households are able to substitute other foods and cope with the change in prices. http://phys.org/news248537134.html Other Sciences Wed, 15 Feb 2012 14:05:41 EST news248537134 (PhysOrg.com) -- Smaller companies are more likely than larger firms to commit illegal backdating of executive stock options but are less likely to be punished, say researchers at the University of Michigan. http://phys.org/news240663353.html Other Sciences Wed, 16 Nov 2011 10:56:02 EST news240663353 South Africa signed a $250-million (183-million-euro) loan deal with the World Bank on Monday aimed at adding 200 Megawatts of solar and wind power to the coal-dependent country's grid. http://phys.org/news240494295.html Technology Mon, 14 Nov 2011 11:58:23 EST news240494295 Climate change will bring more floods and extreme weather to Southeast Asia, a World Bank official said Thursday on a visit to the region, where hundreds have died in severe inundation. http://phys.org/news240135349.html Space & Earth Thu, 10 Nov 2011 08:15:57 EST news240135349 Leaders of the C40 Mayors Summit on climate change said Wednesday the group had reached a financing agreement with the World Bank to help the world's major cities better adapt to climate change. http://phys.org/news226161207.html Space & Earth Wed, 01 Jun 2011 15:33:36 EST news226161207 Allowing developing countries to increase import tariffs based on price and supply triggers under proposed World Trade Organization rules would actually harm those countries, according to a Purdue University economic analysis. http://phys.org/news203098729.html Other Sciences Tue, 07 Sep 2010 17:30:14 EST news203098729 Google is adding World Bank figures to Internet results in a bid to make hard facts about countries worldwide easier to find. http://phys.org/news177186683.html Technology Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:00:01 EST news177186683