Mon 01 February 2021: South Africa saw a marked decline in rhino poaching during 2020, with the killing of rhino declining by 33%. “While the extraordinary circumstances surrounding the battle to beat the COVID-19 pandemic contributed in part to the decrease in rhino poaching in 2020, the role of rangers and security personnel who remained […]
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Sat 30 January 2021: WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Friday said the vaccine nationalism will prolong the COVID-19 pandemic as he expressed concern that some countries are rolling out vaccine only for their own citizens while the world’s least developed nations only wait and watch. Speaking at the last day of the week-long online […]
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Fri 29 January 2021: Seven in 10 workers on the front line of the coronavirus pandemic are female yet women are left out of many COVID-19 response and recovery plans, according to a global survey published on Thursday. The survey, by New York-based women’s rights advocacy group Women Deliver and Paris-based research organisation Focus 2030, […]
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Wed 27 January 2021: The rate at which ice is disappearing across the world matches “worst-case climate warming scenarios”, UK scientists have warned in new research. A team from the universities of Edinburgh, Leeds and University College London said the rate at which ice is melting across the world’s polar regions and mountains has increased […]
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Tue 26 January 2021: Almost every country in the world will see an increase in inequality due to the pandemic, for the first time since records began, according to Oxfam report. The study was released on the opening day of the World Economic Forum, the annual gathering of world, civic and business leaders, which is taking […]
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Wed 20 January 2021: Faceless private equities and hedge funds control the firms essential to our health and survival. How often do you hear about Dodge & Cox, SSgA Funds Management, BlackRock, Mawer Investment or The Vanguard Group? Well, if you recently popped a Tylenol for a headache, took a Lantus insulin shot or got […]
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Sat 16 January 2021: The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday it was opposed “for the time being” to the introduction of certificates of vaccination — so-called “vaccine passports” — against COVID-19 as a condition for allowing international travellers entry into other countries. Several countries have already signalled their interest in producing vaccine passports […]
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Fri 15 January 2021: The past seven years have been the seven warmest years on record since 1880, scientists reported. When it comes to the Earth’s global surface temperature, 2020 came in hot — tying 2016 as the warmest year on record, according to a climate analysis published Thursday by NASA and the United States’ National Oceanic […]
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Thu 07 January 2021: There is a dire need to change people’s water use habits if the world is to successfully overcome the looming global water crisis brought about climate change, according to a Turkish scientist. Behavioral changes among individuals can help massively reduce the current levels of water waste around the world, Mehmet Ekmeci, […]
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Thu 07 January 2021: The Internet seems to be the most potent idol of contemporary times. It not only influences everyday human life but also changes its habits. What happens when we treat the Internet as the primary stimulus for the children’s brain? Will it change the structure of the human brain? In the article, […]
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