Biodiversity
Darjeeling tea goes organic
Gurvinder Singh Growers of the world’s most expensive tea are going organic due to pressure from international buyers and a need to preserve the […]
Category: Health
Climate
Rising heat-related deaths linked to global warming
Claudia Caruana Using empirical data gathered from 732 locations, researchers estimated the mortality burdens associated with additional heat exposure resulting from human-induced warming from 1991 to […]
Sustainable Business
Watchdog Shines Light on Big Pharma’s ‘Fierce’ EU Lobbying Campaign Against Vaccine Patent Waiver
Jake Johnson The public is being left in the dark as to the demands, influencing strategies, and full firepower of the Big Pharma lobby […]
Sustainable Business
Targeting pollutive brick kilns in Bangladesh with AI
Sanjeet Bagcchi A low-cost machine learning method has the potential to track down immensely polluting brick kilns in Bangladesh, helping regulators monitor environmental compliance, […]
Aid
About 155 million people pushed into food insecurity in 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed the fragility of the global food system and the need for more equitable, sustainable and resilient systems to nutritiously […]
Aid
Amidst COVID, UK Government proposes 80 percent aid cut for water and sanitation sector
The reported cuts will end all future spending on water, sanitation and hygiene by the UK in countries including Kenya, Tanzania and Malawi, which […]
Corruption
Media’s failure in contending with second COVID-19 wave has left Indians paying the price
The systemic lapses that exacerbated the scale of the second COVID-19 wave would arguably not have happened in a country with a freer media that […]
Sustainable Business
US$ 1.4 trillion lost every year to tobacco use
WHO’s new technical manual on tobacco tax policy and administration shows countries ways to cut down on over US$1.4 trillion in health expenditures and lost productivity […]
Corruption
12 Months of Trauma: More Than 3,600 US Health Workers Died in Covid’s First Year
Jane Spencer, The Guardian and Christina Jewett The yearlong series of investigative reports found that many of these deaths could have been prevented. Widespread shortages of […]
Climate
Governments across the world fail to protect human rights amid a pandemic
The global pandemic has exposed the terrible legacy of deliberately divisive and destructive policies that have perpetuated inequality, discrimination and oppression and paved the […]
COVID-19
COVID-19 in Mauritius – A success Story?
Mauritius has been globally acclaimed for successfully limiting the spread of the coronavirus. Yet, this was not without substantial hassle. COVID-19 induced various responses […]
COVID-19
TB progress set back a decade by COVID-19 – WHO
Ruth Douglas and Gareth Willmer More than half a million people may have died last year as a result of reductions in TB diagnosis and care, setting back […]