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   "title": "Biodiversity Talks Test What Protecting Nature Really Means",
   "summary": "Healthy Environment Governments meeting in Yerevan, Armenia, are confronting a question that goes beyond drawing boundaries on a map: how can commitments to conserve nature become lasting protection? The UN biodiversity conference, COP17, runs from October 19 to 30, 2026.…",
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   "title": "WHO and ENHYPEN Encourage a New Generation of Blood Donors",
   "summary": "Health & Wellness WHO is drawing on music fans’ community connections to encourage voluntary blood donation. In a statement published October 23, 2026, the agency described a meeting the previous day in Seoul between Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and the group…",
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   "title": "Children’s Summit Puts Education Investment in Focus",
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   "title": "New Funding Connects Emergency Food Aid and School Meals",
   "summary": "Food & Nutrition More than US$182 million in new US Department of Agriculture awards will support emergency food assistance and school meals, the World Food Programme announced on October 16, 2026. The package links immediate relief with a longer effort to keep children…",
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   "title": "Smoke Over a Wild Island: Drought Fuels Record Fires Across New Guinea",
   "summary": "New Guinea is one of the great wild places on Earth. The world's second-largest island holds more than a dozen distinct ecoregions, from seasonally dry savannas to tropical rainforests and lowland swamp forests, and an extraordinary variety of plant life. This autumn, much of…",
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   "title": "A Cartoon and a Cap: New Brainwave Test Shows How Well Young Children Understand Speech",
   "summary": "For a toddler with hearing loss, the first few years are a race against the clock. Those are the years when speech and language take shape, yet they are also the years when children are hardest to test. A hospital in Belgium has just put a new kind of hearing test into everyday…",
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   "title": "Cholera Spreads Across Eastern DR Congo as Families Turn to Untreated Lake Water",
   "summary": "A preventable disease is moving through some of the most vulnerable communities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. National authorities have recorded more than 55,000 suspected cholera cases in the country between January and October, according to the UN Office for the…",
   "url": "https://thehumanfamily.org/p/cholera-spreads-eastern-dr-congo-tanganyika-2026-10-25",
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   "title": "Healthy Environment: The Climate Report's Warning and the Choices Still Available",
   "summary": "The UN Environment Programme's Emissions Gap Report 2026, released October 21, warns that global warming is expected to exceed 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels. Its message is not that action is pointless, but that faster emissions reductions can limit how high…",
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   "title": "Health and Wellness: Lower Malaria Vaccine Prices Could Protect More Children",
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   "title": "Education Access: 273 Million Young People Are Still Out of School",
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   "title": "Food and Nutrition: Innovation Must Reach Families Facing Hunger",
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   "title": "Clean Water: Fighting Threatens Water Supplies for Families in Taiz",
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