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Vietnam's Mekong Delta region has long been considered a climate hot spot. With its low elevation, rapidly urbanizing population, and central role in global rice production, flooding alone could easily …

From vaccines that prevent childhood diseases to antiretroviral drugs that treat HIV, we're better equipped than ever to take on the world's greatest public health challenges. In the past two …

Last week, the Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network (ACCCRN) was officially launched at the Resilient Cities Asia-Pacific Conference in Bangkok. Created in 2008, this Rockefeller Foundation-supported initiative has focused on building capacity, …

I'm often asked what we at The Rockefeller Foundation mean when we talk about the intersection of resilience and innovation. One way to understand that relationship might be to imagine …

In December 2013, I attended a workshop organized by the Global Knowledge Initiative (GKI), a grantee in The Rockefeller Foundation's Waste and Spoilage Initiative. At one point, a workshop participant arrived …

Market and enterprise-based solutions for development objectives are on the rise among actors both old and new. So why aren't more problems being solved? To tackle part of this question, we …

By the time Tom Brady kneeled down on the field to bring an end to Super Bowl XLIX, the game had become the most-viewed U.S. television event in history. Over …

Tonight, U.S. Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx is sitting down with Google's Eric Schmidt for a fireside chat, livestreamed on YouTube, to discuss DOT's "Beyond Traffic," which looks at the …

"A quarter of the world's population—or 1.3 billion people—lack access to electricity. Close to 85 percent of those without electricity live in rural areas and 87 percent are geographically concentrated …

2015 promises to be a banner year of landmark progress for the universal health coverage (UHC) movement to provide health care to everyone on the planet. It's an ambitious goal, …