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Extreme heat costs Bangladesh $4.1 billion in lost wages each year: Study
Climate Change

Extreme heat costs Bangladesh $4.1 billion in lost wages each year: Study

Madhumita Paul
3 min read
Experts recommend stronger workplace protections, enforceable heat threshold, recognition of heat-related illness as an occupational disease
Ageing with HIV: Global report highlights the need to prepare health systems
Africa

Ageing with HIV: Global report highlights the need to prepare health systems

Luicer Anne Ingasia Olubayo
Older adults are acquiring HIV and being diagnosed later in life. But prevention and testing campaigns remain focused on younger people
Five African countries mark end of polio outbreak: WHO
Health

Five African countries mark end of polio outbreak: WHO

Madhumita Paul
2 min read
Progress reflects years of efforts to close vaccination, detection gaps
China is launching a Moon mission to find water ice. It’s unlike anything NASA has done

China is launching a Moon mission to find water ice. It’s unlike anything NASA has done

Richard de Grijs
3 min read
Governments shouldn’t rely on AI to decide who gets a social grant: inside a South African court case

Governments shouldn’t rely on AI to decide who gets a social grant: Inside a South African court case

Mark Richard Gaffley
The soil’s early warning system: microbes can predict desertification before plants start to die

The soil’s early warning system: microbes can predict desertification before plants start to die

Marc Van Goethem
3 min read
Lithium in the Sahel: how armed groups are exploiting the global scramble for the critical mineral

Lithium in the Sahel: How armed groups are exploiting the global scramble for the critical mineral

Bradley A Mortin
4 min read
A new class of metals could transform Africa’s clean energy economy — scientists explain

A new class of metals could transform Africa’s clean energy economy — scientists explain

Michael Oluwatosin Bodunrin
3 min read
Africans migrate for jobs mostly within the continent: Why regional skills partnerships are needed

Africans migrate for jobs mostly within the continent: Why regional skills partnerships are needed

Amanda Bisong
5 min read
Study shows disproportionate burden of water fetching on girls in Ghana

Study shows disproportionate burden of water fetching on girls in Ghana

Susan Chacko
2 min read
Mukuru Kwa Njenga slums in Nairobi.

Drought and the war in Ukraine changed what families in Kenya could afford to eat – research tracked food and cooking gas use

Matthew Shupler
4 min read
EPR in Asia Pacific: Vietnam made companies pay for packaging, then wrote discount into the formula

EPR in Asia Pacific: Vietnam made companies pay for packaging, then wrote discount into the formula

Vanhishikha Vyas
6 min read
Trump administration moves to block public from enforcing environmental protection laws

Trump administration moves to block public from enforcing environmental protection laws

Sarah J Morath
UK sees highest heatwave exposure of children in two decades

UK sees highest heatwave exposure of children in three decades

Madhumita Paul
2 min read
Cholera still kills thousands each year — in places without clean water, it’s far from history

Cholera still kills thousands each year — in places without clean water, it’s far from history

Katrine L Wallace
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