Until recently, a store selling groceries in a village in Zambia couldn’t sell cold drinks: It didn’t have access to electricity to power a fridge. But the store now has a solar panel on the roof ...

In early June, my colleague Sam Dean sent me an enthusiastic yet slightly cryptic Slack message: “The fridges are spreading!” He attached a link to an Instagram post of a refrigerator in front of what ...

Keeping food fresh without refrigeration is near impossible in the scorching climate of sub-Saharan Africa. But it’s hard to power fridges in a region where almost 600 million people live off the grid ...

MARLBOROUGH — Following the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of people experiencing food insecurity has risen sharply, with one area food pantry reporting an 85% increase in demand over a recent 18-month ...

A fridge that positively thrives in direct sunlight might seem a bit of a strange idea, but if you find yourself in a baking hot country where keeping your medical supplies cool and fresh could mean ...

23 year old Emily Cummins has become the first female, and only European, to be awarded an Oslo Business for Peace Honouree by a jury of Nobel prize winners recently in Norway. Cummins was chosen as ...

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FREETOWN, Sierra Leone — President Biden this month announced plans to ship a half a billion doses of the Pfizer vaccine to the 100 lowest income countries in the world. That would include Sierra ...