Data & Reports
‘Nightmare Bacteria’ Stalk U.S. Hospitals
Liz Szabo The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention detected more than 220 cases last year of a rare breed of “nightmare bacteria” that […]
Category: Sustainable Development
Featured
Masculinity in the Message: Can Understanding Masculinity Improve Gender Intervention?
Ishrat Jahan While program interventions and research initiatives have addressed the debilitating impact on women in urban slums, they have only recently taken into […]
Biodiversity
Draining peatlands leads to greenhouse laughing gas emissions, study shows
Julie Mollins Drained peatlands lead to the significant release of nitrous oxide — a greenhouse gas also known colloquially as laughing gas — leading […]
Environment
Watch: How an Indian professor is turning plastic trash into highways
Todd Reubold Plastic pollution is one of the greatest challenges facing the world. Just last week scientists writing in the journal Scientific Reports announced […]
Biodiversity
Barren hills bring Rohingya refugees and Bangladeshis into conflict
Pinaki Roy The impact of hundreds and thousands of Rohingya refugees have been devastating to the forest cover and water availability in Cox’s Bazar, […]
Cities
Informal Cities and Climate Resilience: building an inclusive approach
Informal settlements in cities of the developing world fare very poor under the ‘risk reducing’ infrastructure parameters of the IPCC. Climate change has brought […]
Disasters
For One Father And Son In Puerto Rico, Hurricane Maria’s Cloud Has Not Lifted
Sarah Varney Inside a darkened bedroom, the elder Martinez, a 67-year-old former star pitcher in the local baseball league, spoons rice and sausage into […]
Sustainable Business
Sand Stories: An upcoming publication on the sand crisis
We have unwittingly built ourselves a society that is highly dependent on the consumption of sand in order to maintain a high standard of […]
Aid
Integrated finance for climate and poverty vulnerability
The ultimate successes and failures of climate finance will have diverse consequences for populations living in poverty Climate change induced risks are undermining efforts […]
Biodiversity
An inside look on Eskom’s work with wetlands in South Africa
Wetlands play a crucial role in making cities liveable and sustainable and their effective management need to be a part of planning and development […]
Environment
China’s ministries revamped for “ecological civilisation”
Ma Tianjie and Liu Qin Two new cabinet level ministries will be tasked with managing natural resources and fighting pollution China’s growth story has been an […]
Aid
Gender audits – from paper to practice
Alice Ridge and Juliet Hunt The point at which gender audit findings get translated into practice – is the subject of this qualitative research, recently […]
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