The pill that’s roiling US drug regulation

The hard right is challenging FDA’s authority to regulate drugs with its lawsuit to ban America’s most used abortion pill

Trillions more need to be invested if SDGs are to be rescued: UN report

Bold actions needed to scale up SDG investment and reform global financial system

The last over 4-minute-long ‘total solar eclipse’ in the US was used by Tecumseh to unite indigenous Americans

Tecumseh’s brother, Tenskwatawa, an influential shaman, predicted an eclipse on June 16, 1806; it happened, and indigenous people united …

Study highlights need for tourism industry to curb emissions: Yellowstone case shows travel’s big footprint

The park generates over 1.03 megatonnes of CO2 annually, travel to and from the park contributes to 90% of it

The Gambia may allow female genital mutilation again – another sign of a global trend eroding women’s rights

Proposed changes before parliament could permit medicalised female genital cutting and allow it for consenting adults

Tripling nuclear energy by 2050 will take a miracle, and miracles don’t happen

It is time to abandon the idea that further expanding nuclear technology can help with mitigating climate change

US oil & gas lobby pushes massive ad campaign promoting fossil fuels

The “Lights on Energy” campaign pushes message that dependence on oil & natural gas is a matter of survival for Americans and …

Japan is about to land its first lunar probe. As more nations race to the Moon, how will we keep the peace?

Despite urgent recommendations from across the political spectrum to practice caution and avoid escalation, the world continues on a path towards …

A new world order taking shape

Proponents have turned their backs to the idea of unfettered global trade; how will new globalisation rules take shape in a climate-risked and war-…

Measles accounted for most excess deaths as a result of COVID-19 related vaccine disruptions

Excess deaths due to vaccine breaks amounted to 967,000 deaths, catch-up shots could avert 79% of them, finds Lancet study

India needs more representative national food waste studies, says latest UN report

Food waste can be halved through concerted, collaborative effort, advises UN analysis

Baltimore bridge collapse: A bridge engineer explains what happened, and what needs to change

One lesson is that we need to consider how the vessels near our bridges are changing

World Water Day 2024: Precious blue liquid is a thin red line between war and peace, says UN report

Sustainable and equitable water management can be a source of peace and prosperity; poverty and conflict can amplify water insecurity, says UN report

Humanity produced 62 billion kg of e-waste in 2022. In 2030, that number will be 82 billion kg: UN

Easiest solution for all e-waste issues is still not to generate any e-waste in the first place, urges report  

United States bans white asbestos, last of its kind still in use

Chrysotile asbestos used in chlor-alkali industry to make water treatment chemicals, chlorine bleach, caustic soda

There will be more human-bull shark interactions in future; the species is adapting to warming seas, and thriving

Five-fold increase in the abundance of juvenile bull sharks over the last 20 years in Mobile Bay coincides with increasing sea surface temperatures

Poverty reduction in reverse, far-right populism to blame, says UN 2023 Human Development Report

A ‘democracy paradox’, coupled with a sense of powerlessness & lack of control over government decisions, has fuelled political …

What is the Darien Gap? And why are more migrants risking this Latin American route to get to the US?

The challenging topography of humid, swampy rainforest as well as criminal gangs who control the area, make the route an extremely challenging …

Almost 5 million children died before their fifth birthday in 2022, finds UN report

A neonatal death happened every 14 seconds, one under five death every 6 seconds

FAO publishes first national report on AMR surveillance in India’s fisheries, livestock sectors

Data generated on AMR trends will be helpful to inform policy and decision making for AMR containment

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