Simply Put: Increasing desertification
A giant of the scientific community who showed how to make sense of the universe
Half of India's children are poor
It raises a question: will they ever be out of poverty?
Trump dumps the Paris climate deal
Scientific stutter
Do animals have a language, and hence a mind, of their own?
Octopuses are super-smart ... but are they conscious?
The idea of non-human consciousness raises a host of philosophical questions
Green Climate Fund approves eight projects at Zambia meet
Approved projects worth US$ 168 million
‘Food was grown to keep community healthy’
The local system of agriculture produces more healthy and useful food, says Miller
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
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
‘Paxlovid rebound’ cases have experts scrambling for answers
Is it happening because of the antiviral or is this just how the virus behaves?
Monkeypox outbreak brings focus back on smallpox vaccines. But which countries have stock?
Smallpox vaccination was discontinued after smallpox was eradicated in the 1980s
Global Diabetes Compact to increase access to testing, treatment: WHO
About half of all adults with type 2 diabetes remain undiagnosed
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
Coronavirus Update: After 4 mln cases in US Trump calls for putting on masks
Pandemic will worsen, US president thinks after 15 mln cases worldwide
Coronavirus update: Tamil Nadu to lock down Chennai, 3 other districts
ICMR distances itself from study suggesting November peak
COVID-19 cases in Africa double in just four days
A host of factors could imperil millions of lives on the continent, warns WHO
World Antibiotic Awareness Week: Looking at the microbe’s rebellion
As antibiotics become ineffective, disease causing microbes are on a rampage
UNESCO Director-General deplores fires in Mount Kenya National Park
Offers full help and assistance to Nairobi so that such an incident does not recur
Air pollution sets back global economy by $225 billion
An estimated 5.5 million people died due to air pollution-related diseases in 2013
El Salvador becomes first central American country to be declared malaria-free
The country has not recorded any indigenous case of malaria since 2017