

The Biggest Global Risks of 2023
The Biggest Global Risks of 2023 The profile of risks facing the world is evolving constantly. Events like last year’s invasion of...


Report by Devex of why ‘The world is not prepared for the next health emergency
Read a 22 December 2022 report by Devex author Jenny Lei Ravelo of why ‘The world is not prepared for the next health emergency’ The...


Secretary-General Guterres speaking at his year-end press conference had little positive to say
Read Devex author Colum Lynch’s article (3 January 2023) on the UN leader’s year end speech. U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres...


Is the answer to eating less sugar simply to replace it with artificially sweetened foods?
Our Food Is Getting Sweeter, Changing Appetites - Carrie Arnold When Cherie Russell's husband brought home a bottle of jarred marinara...


Long Covid and its continuing perplexities/legacy – how will this affect employers and employees in
See article by Jenny Lei Ravelo of Devex A patient with COVID-19 shows a medical staffer a picture of his chest X-ray at a field hospital...


Blowing hot air: Africa’s big greenhouse gas emitters
Photo by Chris LeBoutillier on Unsplash South Africa is one of the world’s biggest greenhouse gas emitters. The 452 megatonnes of carbon...


Visualizing Changes in COâ‚‚ Emissions Since 1900
Visualizing COâ‚‚ Emissions Since 1900 Leaders from all over the world are currently gathering at the Conference of the Parties of the...


Ghana’s illegal mining continues because the rules and reality are disconnected
Illegal gold mining is spreading rapidly in Ghana. Wikimedia Commons/Flickr Artisanal and small-scale mining – a low-tech, indigenous...


TB Cases and Deaths Increase as COVID Pandemic Wipes Out Decades of Gains
Dr Tereza Kasaeva, director of WHO’s Global TB Programme. Tuberculosis cases and deaths have increased for the first time in decades,...


Tuberculosis deaths and disease increase during the COVID-19 pandemic
An estimated 10.6 million people fell ill with tuberculosis (TB) in 2021, an increase of 4.5% from 2020, and 1.6 million people died from...