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Haneen Khreis, Texas A&M University and Mark Nieuwenhuijsen, Australian Catholic University Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, is the second most congested city in the world. To […]
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Cecial Adhikari Menstruation Hygiene Day 2018 was celebrated with tag line #nomorelimits. This illustrated no limitations or restrictions during menstruation including everyone, everywhere. Nepal […]
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Vivek K.Singh Challenges, even threats, remain in the accountability of supply chains, notably in the apparel industry. This is what Vivek K.Singh, a sustainability expert living […]
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Nile Bowie Malaysian premier says a decades-old, fixed rate supply contract is ‘too costly’ and ‘ridiculous’ while the rich city-state maintains that a deal […]
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Global fish production will continue to expand over the next decade even though the amount of fish being captured in the wild has levelled […]
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There is no policy in India that promotes a holistic approach to conservation of our rivers. We depend on several institutions to safeguard our […]
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Adam Sharpe Benedict Joson is launching a hugely ambitious education nonprofit called 260by26. His goal? To get the 260 million children out of school […]
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Ranjan K Panda India needs to proactively include indigenous communities and forest dwellers in its efforts to restore and expand forest cover to sequester […]
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Sharman Stone Of the nearly 700,000 Rohingya refugees that have crossed into Bangladesh since August 2017, well over half are women and girls, and […]
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The World Meteorological Organization is revamping its strategy on water in order to face up to the unprecedented challenges posed by water stress, floods […]
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Farasha Bashir/icddr,b Bangladesh’s capital – Dhaka – is classified as hyper-endemic as the city experiences two seasonal outbreaks of cholera every year. In spite […]
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A measles epidemic has hit an isolated Amazon tribe on the Brazil-Venezuela border which has very little immunity to the disease. The devastating outbreak […]
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Ashley Lopez, KUT The fear of family separation is nothing new for many immigrants already living in the U.S. In fact, that fear, heightened […]
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Endurance swimmer and UN Environment Patron of the Oceans Lewis Pugh announced his plans to swim the entire length of the English Channel – […]
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M. Sreelata Excessive withdrawal of groundwater across India is not only lowering the water table, it is also contaminating water with uranium. According to […]
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The Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) has ruled that Germany breached EU law by allowing manure runoff from farms to pollute water. […]
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The rufous treepie is an arboreal omnivore feeding almost completely hopping between branches in the trees on fruits, seeds, invertebrates, small reptiles and the […]
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Rhett Butler Dramatic footage released last week by an animal welfare group shows a wild orangutan trying in vain to fight off destruction of […]
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Putu Ayu Swandewi Astuti, University of Sydney and Becky Freeman, University of Sydney The world’s second-largest market for tobacco after China, Indonesia is home […]
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News from Iraq comes that the Tigris River had fallen to historically low levels due to dam in Turkey. This situation has resulted in […]
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Millions of people worldwide are being displaced by natural disasters triggered partially by climate change, and the international community is finally taking steps to […]
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Chloe Warren Low-power wide-area networks — LPWANs — are finding application in everything from tracking rhinos in Tanzania to monitoring water quality in Ireland […]
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Morgan Erickson-Davis A study finds 3.4 million acres (13,760 square kilometers or 5,313 square miles) in Europe fit the definition of primary forest set […]
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Ishrat Jahan To put solutions into context, interventions require deeper understanding of the lives of adolescent boys in the urban slums of Bangladesh Rojib […]
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