The Ecuadorian government on Thursday issued an environmental permit with the signed approval of its Environment Ministry for oil drilling in the Amazon's Yasuni National Park.
The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) released a report consisting of an analysis of over 4,000 surveys in seven developing countries on reading from mobile devices.
A United Nations report released earlier this week revealed that 20 percent of teenagers in Latin American countries between the ages of 11 and 18 do not attend schools.
A group of Nobel-prize winning scientists released a report Monday outlining the how critical global warming will be on humanity, "Al Jazeera America" reported.
The U.N.'s weather agency announced Monday that the majority of the extreme weather experience in 2013 in the Asia, Europe and Pacific regions were caused by human-induced climate change, "Fox News" reported.
