Environment
World comes together to tackle mercury poisoning
The world’s first Convention to protect the environment and human health in close to a decade, the Minamata Convention on Mercury, enters into force […]
Category: Sustainable Development
Environment
It’s time to start thinking about our digital carbon footprint
Pietari Kaapa Contemporary digital media is pervasive and proliferating, and raises fundamental questions over the capabilities of the industry to account for its environmental […]
Cities
Untreated wastewater from cities expose 885 million people to severe health risks globally
Advanced modelling methods helped determining that 65 per cent of all irrigated areas within 40 kilometres downstream from urban centres worldwide are affected by […]
Data & Reports
Asthma, More Deadly With Age, Takes Heavy Toll On Older Adults
Judith Graham Death rates for older adults with asthma are five times that of younger patients, according to a new review of asthma among […]
Data & Reports
Dear Lancet, its pesticides that killed children, not lychees
Deepika Lobo Lancet study blaming the lychee fruit for children deaths in India negated by another study that suggests pesticides behind deaths. The New […]
Data & Reports
Dengue virus rides Asia’s airline networks
Yao-Hua Law Asia’s burgeoning airline network is helping spread the dengue virus (DENV) across the continent, says a new study. Published this month (August) […]
Data & Reports
Breastfeeding: No country meets recommended standards
In five of the world’s largest emerging economies—China, India, Indonesia, Mexico and Nigeria—the lack of investment in breastfeeding results in an estimated 236,000 child […]
Cities
Introduction to Sustainable Development Goals for Urban Managers
Know more about the SDG on urban management from these video series produced by TU Berlin students, Katherine Cashman and Moutasem Al-Khnaifes. More information […]
Labour
The Guardian on seasonal workers: poor journalism
Stephen Howes It’s pretty odd to write an article about foreign farm workers and then exclude the vast majority of them. It’s even stranger […]
Data & Reports
Revealed: 91% of Karachi’s water unfit to drink
Zofeen T. Ebrahim Faced with leaky pipes, faulty treatment plants and illegal tapping, the government of Sindh is struggling to provide clean and safe […]
Education
Do Fidget Spinners help ADH or autism disorder?
The toy has been advertised as helping people who have trouble with focusing or fidgeting, by relieving nervous energy or psychological stress. And mainly […]
Sustainable Development
The role of humanitarian academics in a post-truth world
At the end of 2016, Oxford dictionaries made “post-truth” their word of the year. The word encapsulates many phenomena: the role of emotionality in […]
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