DTE Coverage: 2 summits, 1 agenda

Conferences were held in Geneva and Nairobi to decide future of biodiversity governance 

Simply Put: Tsar Vladimir

Simply Put: Climate impact on hospitals

Predicting disasters: Technology behind early warning systems & countries with lowest adoption

Asia and Africa have the lowest share of countries with early warning systems

Simply Put: Microplastics in food

Yaounde Declaration: Health ministers of 11 African countries commit to end malaria deaths

But experts insist that such expressed political will must be accompanied by action on the ground  

AI can see you

A sophisticated and frightening face-recognition algorithm being employed by technology firms could be the end of privacy as we know it

As the world heats up, solar panels will degrade faster – especially in hot, humid areas. What can we do?

We’ll need to incorporate new ways of cooling panels and improve the materials used. We also need to improve manufacturing processes and …

Book Excerpt: Have you ever tried a sustainable safari in Africa?

In safari tourism, the balance between humans, development, and wildlife is a difficult one to strike; but there are safari companies trying to …

A new virus-like entity has just been discovered – ‘obelisks’ explained

Obelisks have a circular single-stranded RNA genome and no protein coat but, like viruses, their genomes contain genes that are predicted to code …

Simply Put: Alone

World seeing signs of climate breakdown: Antonio Guterres

UN Pact for Future must prioritise communities bearing brunt of climate emergency, says UN secretary-general 

Robots develop new semiconductor materials in tests that are 10 times faster & greener

With the technology, scientists have been able to develop alloys with perovskites materials that can improve solar cells

WHO releases first-of-its-kind patient safety rights charter ahead of Patient Safety Day

Outlines core rights of all patients in the context of safety of health care

Climate change responsible for over 80% of temperature rise within Asia last month, the hottest April ever: WWA

Climate change and El Nino combined to push minimum and mean temperature rise in eastern India to highest ever in April  

World Earth Day 2024: Global network presents solutions for cutting down plastic use in food chain

Slow Food Earth Markets around the world suggest steps undertaken by it to reduce plastics in their food systems

The year 2023 smashed several climate records, with some being ‘chart-busting’: WMO report

Greenhouse gas levels, surface temperatures, ocean heat and acidification, sea level rise, Antarctic sea ice cover and glacier retreat reached …

Road traffic deaths declined overall, but those of cyclists and pedestrians rose in last decade: WHO report

Cyclists deaths have increased by 70 per cent in a decade; just 25 per cent of countries have laws in place to support public transportation,…

AMR Awareness Week: Natural livestock farming effective bottom-up approach to reduce antibiotic use in dairy sector

Crisis with AMR obliges dairy sector to look beyond maximising cattle productivity and focus on both milk quantity, quality

AMR Awareness Week: Way forward for pharma companies to ensure antibiotics manufacturing doesn’t drive resistance

The risk of AMR posed by the release of antibiotic manufacturing waste can be prevented  

Mysterious pneumonia-like illness grips China, sparks fear of a pandemic

Experts speculate mycoplasma bacterium to be behind outbreak; more information needed for confirmation

“Rich countries need to consume and produce less animal-source foods”

World Food Prize winner Lawrence Haddad on the impact of climate change on food systems

World faces a triple health jeopardy as drug pipeline for new antibiotics dries up

It is time to look at antibiotics as global public good

Simply Put: A bridge too far

Unsafe WASH behind 395,000 deaths of children under 5 in 2019: WHO report

Most WASH-attributable deaths were reported from the WHO African and South-East Asia regions