Landmark studies shows air pollution is now the second largest killer in India and another recent study in Journal of Indian Paediatrics shows children in […]
Eric Bender Boston is working on projects large and small to meet these threats. Most dramatically, the city is considering building a giant seawall […]
Manipadma Jena Recent research suggests that extreme heat waves and high atmospheric humidity could be triggering increased lightning strikes in regions that are most vulnerable […]
From Mumbai to Houston, cities have caught up with heavy precipitation events in a much fiercer ways than ever before. As the world growingly […]
Kamran Reza Chowdhury Despite massive flooding Bangladesh has seen very few disease related deaths, as having learnt from previous disasters the country has focussed […]
Beatriz Garcia The Amazon, often described as the “lungs of the Earth”, is the largest rainforest in the world. Its extraordinary biodiversity and sheer […]
More than 355,000 children under five years-old vaccinated against polio in hard to reach areas of Syria UNICEF, the World Health Organisation and partners […]
Bhaswati Goswami The Boat Clinic keeps hopes sailing silently to the rescue of flood affected people in Assam A boat in deed saved hopes […]
Flood forecasting maps and data points towards major flood waves taking over Brahmaputra, may extend to the Ganga basin and impact Bangladesh. In the […]
Joydeep Gupta A new study looks at five major impacts of climate change, the sectors and the people most vulnerable. Almost 750 million people in South […]
The Minas Gerais disaster, which had irreversible negative effects on human health and the environment, was revived this year in one of the most […]
Elizabeth Grossman In the absence of a federal U.S. policy for schools located near potentially dangerous sites, community activists search for safer solutions. On […]