How Climate Change Is Putting Doctors In The Hot Seat
Melissa Bailey Global warming is often associated with dramatic effects such as hurricanes, fires and floods, but patients’ health issues represent the subtler ways […]
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Global energy demand to plunge to a seven decade low, the biggest shock since Second World War
The Covid-19 pandemic represents the biggest shock to the global energy system in more than seven decades, with the drop in demand this year […]
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The surprising link between our consumer habits and deadly diseases ranging from malaria to the novel coronavirus
Anita Makri From age-old malaria to COVID-19, markets influence systems that drive pandemic risk. Here’s what we can do about it. Rebecca Wong knows […]
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Pandemic effect – can we save the SDG on water and sanitation?
Ashok Swain The Covid-19 pandemic could be the spur needed to aggressively pursue the Sustainable Development Goals, especially on water and sanitation, but it […]
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Nature gets a breathing space, but for how long?
Scientists and others concerned about climate change kept on urging human race to shift to greener paths of development; this pandemic sent out a […]
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Germany committed to climate protection despite COVID and tight budgets: Merkel
The 11th Petersberg Climate Dialogue virtually hosted by Germany and COP 26 host UK is focusing on how the international community can emerge from […]
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Watch: DamNation | The Problem with Hydropower
Patagonia This film explores the evolution of our national attitude from pride in big dams as engineering wonders to the growing awareness that our […]
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Faced with a crisis, airlines seek delay on climate measures
Catherine Early The aviation sector deserves support to recover from Covid-19, but that doesn’t mean a free pass on climate, Aviation is one of […]
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Pandemics and prejudice: When there is an epidemic, social prejudices resurface
Diseases don’t care for race or class. But they continue to be pinned to race, gender, sexual preference and geography In the early 1900s […]
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Governments, private sector and health leaders to ensure everyone can access new vaccines, and treatments for COVID-19
Heads of state and global health leaders today made an commitment to work together to accelerate the development and production of new vaccines, tests […]
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Fixing the WHO
Joel Negin Like other United Nations bodies, the WHO has always been a political beast. It is funded by and given its power by […]
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“Earth School” launched to keep students connected to nature in the time of COVID-19
In response to the COVID-19 crisis, UNEP launched a coalition with TED-Ed and others called “Earth School,” for providing free, educational content for students, […]
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Mastercard Foundation joins FAO to fight Desert Locusts in East Africa
A $10 million donation from Mastercard Foundation has been made to FAO for fighting the Desert Locust menace in East Africa that can destroy […]
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‘It’s Not Over Until It’s Over’: 5 Things To Know About Hitting The COVID-19 Peak
Phil Galewitz Health experts say not to expect a single peak day — when new cases reach their highest level — to determine when […]
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Mizuho, World’s 9th Largest Fossil Fuel Financier Restricts Coal Financing
Mizuho Financial Group (Mizuho) announced its new policy on coal financing on April 15 , drawing a bittersweet reception from climate activists across Asia. Mixed reactions […]
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As coronavirus outbreak exposes faultlines in long supply chains, are locally self-sufficient economies the way forward?
I donned my mask, and bravely set forth to the local grocery shop and vegetable and fish market. The formerly boring chore was now […]
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Climate change could cause abrupt biodiversity losses this century
Christopher Trisos, University of Cape Town and Alex Pigot, UCL The impacts of climate change on species and ecosystems are already evident. Poleward shifts […]
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Waste management an essential public service in the fight to beat COVID-19
With the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic continuing to spread and its impacts upon human health and the economy intensifying day-by-day, governments are urged to […]
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Rich countries ‘raiding’ developing world’s nurses
Fiona Broom Rich countries are ‘raiding’ nurses from their lower-income neighbours, a global nursing organisation says, leaving parts of the global South with less […]
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In India, fight against corona is a fight for water, against inequality
In the country, 7 percent of the population are without even a basic water supply close to home. About 81 percent rural Indians don’t […]
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Half a billion people could be pushed into poverty by coronavirus
Oxfam’s new report ‘Dignity Not Destitution’ presents fresh analysis which suggests between six and eight percent of the global population could be forced into […]
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Public Calls for Governments to Close Southeast Asia’s Wildlife Markets
A WWF public survey in South East Asian countries show that an overwhelming majority support closure of wildlife markets which are mostly illegal This […]
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Drug companies should drop their patents and collaborate to fight coronavirus
Enrico Bonadio, City, University of London and Andrea Baldini, Nanjing University As the coronavirus pandemic continues to claim victims around the world, the race […]
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Trump Administration Uses Wartime Powers To Be First In Line On Medical Supplies
Christina Jewett and Lauren Weber The Trump administration quietly invoked the Defense Production Act to force medical suppliers in Texas and Colorado to sell to it […]
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