AMR Awareness Week: Antimicrobial research and development needs greater push through policies

We need policies to reward R&D, bring products to market and ensure equitable access and prudent use

World Health Assembly defines pandemic emergency, pledges improved access to medical products & financing

Critical amendments to International Health Regulations adopted by WHO member countries

G7 way off-track in emission cuts to achieve 1.5°C target; finding significant as WMO says Asia ‘global disaster capital’

Present policies mostly paper tigers; India need greater ministerial integration to counter climate impacts, say experts  

COVID-19 was declared a pandemic 4 years ago: Take a look at the virus’ journey and global response to it

A timeline of the key events related to COVID-19

Globally, women have just two-thirds of legal rights given to men, finds World Bank

India’s rank improves from 126 to 113

Devastating Libya floods were 50 times more likely, 50% more intense due to warming planet

Once in 300-to-600-year event but ongoing conflict and state fragility in country compounded effects

Ozone Day 2023: Why the South Pole has set alarm bells ringing this year

After a record-low sea ice cover, Antarctica saw one of the largest ozone holes ever reported this August, highlighting the changing nature of …

No immediate cause for concern, epidemiologist tells DTE as MERS case detected in UAE

A 28-year-old male tested positive for MERS-CoV in Al Ain, WHO said July 24  

World Environment Day 2023: This project in south India is all about bridging art, conservation and empowerment

Adivasis make life-sized elephants from lantana; this provides them with employment besides decreasing lantana in the forest and raises awareness …

Health for all: WHO launches first-ever roadmap to link health with sustainable economic growth

WHO Council on the Economics of Health for All launches report at 76th World Health Assembly

Feeding off each other

Vegetarian movements in South Asia and the West grew with mutual support and validation

Simply Put: Insect killers

Baobab reforestation efforts show rapid impact in Madagascar

Down To Earth speaks to two scientists on efforts to conserve the iconic trees of the world’s fourth-largest island

River pollution is causing harmful outbreaks of sewage fungus in the UK

Sewage fungus effects can interact with other types of human pollution, including agricultural and urban runoff

Putin wants to transform Russia’s far east into a tourist hotspot – but history shows it won’t be easy

Russia’s far east is already grappling with issues such as overfishing, illegal logging and poaching of its wildlife. Mass unregulated …

Simply Put: Priorities

Burkina Faso, Mali & Niger hint at a new west African currency: what it’ll take for it to succeed

Close coordination of macroeconomic and budgetary policies, establishment of robust monetary management institutions and creation of an …

The Great Barrier Reef’s latest bout of bleaching is the fifth in eight summers – the corals now have almost no reprieve

We can expect heavy losses of corals to occur on hundreds of individual reefs over the next few months

You Are What You Eat: A Twin Experiment: Two truths about nutrition amid plenty of half-truths

You Are What You Eat was guilty of cherry-picking statistics that project vegan diets to be the healthier alternative for people of all age …

Child poverty a global concern

It is time poverty alleviation policies and programmes get child-centric, to lay a solid foundation for a future generation that is healthy and …

Zimbabwe to construct first utility geothermal power plant

Project aims to reduce Zimbabwe’s reliance on hydropower energy sources, which are under threat due to climate change

Pharma is getting high on marijuana

As drug companies develop cannabis-based medicines for serious illnesses, generic firms are trying to get into the act

Book Excerpt: Forgotten Foods: Memories and Recipes from Muslim South Asia

In Forgotten Foods, historians, literary scholars, plant scientists, heritage practitioners, writers and chefs come together to document …

Simply Put: Balanced Growth

Paris fumigated for 1st time as disease-carrying mosquito spreads, likely triggered by climate change

It has become easier for the species to thrive in a warming Europe