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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 of the constant threat of this disease, an exploration of the diverse V.cholerae strains percolating in this environment a

Data & Reports , Environment , Health , Sustainable Development , Water / 06/25/2018

Uranium ‘widespread’ in India’s groundwater

M. Sreelata Excessive withdrawal of groundwater across India is not only lowering the water table, it is also contaminating water with uranium. According to a study published in Environmental Science & Technology Letters, uranium contamination is “an emerging and widespread phenomenon”. I

Data & Reports , Environment , Featured , Health , Sustainable Development / 06/14/2018

Protecting young Indonesian hearts from tobacco

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 to 100 million smokers. Smoking kills more than 200,000 Indonesians a year. The death threat also looms over its young generation. A f

Business , Data & Reports , Disasters , Environment , Events , Featured , Resources , Sustainable Development , Waste / 06/05/2018

Global call on G7 and Corporates to end plastic pollution crisis

New data collected through cleanups and brand audits confirms that some of the world’s largest corporations — including Coca-Cola, Unilever, Nestlé, and Procter & Gamble — are top contributors to single-use plastic pollution worldwide. With the G7 set to release a plastics charter on Worl

Business , Data & Reports , Governance , Science & Technology , Sustainable Development / 06/04/2018

Impact of General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on Indian Businesses

Ameya Paratkar The scope for GDPR implementation is much wider in India. According to a survey conducted by EY, 70% of Indian respondents see data protection and data privacy compliance as increasing areas of concern. What is GDPR? The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a Regulati

Data & Reports , Health , Sustainable Development / 06/03/2018

Cancers linked to obesity to double by 2025 in Brazil

The number of people suffering from cancers associated with obesity or overweight — such as breast, colon and prostate tumours — is expected to double in Brazil by 2025, up from just over 15,000 for every 470,000 new cases diagnosed in 2012.

Data & Reports , Disasters , Environment , Featured , Resources , Science & Technology / 05/19/2018

Are we ready for the next Pompeii-learning from past disasters

The great disasters of the past – like the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD or the hurricane that devastated Santo Domingo in 1930 – can provide valuable lessons to help governments and institutions increase the resilience of communities in the face of modern challenges, such as climate change and

Biodiversity , Climate , Data & Reports , Environment , Food , Forests , Migration / 05/14/2018

Climate change could put food supply for migratory birds at risk

Augusta Dwyer Along with rising sea levels and disrupted weather patterns, climate change could also have a potentially harmful impact on migratory birds. That finding comes from a new study carried out by ornithologists at Cornell University, recently published in Ecology Letters. The study used c

Cities , Data & Reports , Environment , Featured , Resources , Sustainable Development , Water / 05/04/2018

Asian Cities pollute our Seas the most, must act together to curb it!

Eight of the ten rivers, that carry almost 95 percent of all the plastic debris into the Seas, are from Asia. Ganges and Indus are among them. A recent scientific study has this shocking revelation to make. Researchers from the Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ of Germany hav

Data & Reports , Disasters , Featured , Science & Technology , Sustainable Development / 04/26/2018

Do no harm: A code to guide use of humanitarian drones

Sandy Ong Humanitarian UAViators Network as a platform that discuss best practices in the field — and drafting a code of conduct was the first order of business. Joel Kaiser arrived in Nepal just after the deadliest disaster to hit the Himalayan country. It was late in April 2015; two major ear

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