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It’s Not Heroic To Fight a Problem That Could’ve Been Averted by Good Policy

Emily Shepherd 24/09/2021

It's not respectful to call firefighters 'heroes' if they're...

FILE PHOTO: Picture illustration of vials with Pfizer-BioNTech, AstraZeneca, Sputnik V, and Moderna coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine labels

Developing Nations’ Plea to World’s Wealthy at UN: Stop Hoarding Vaccines

Daphne Psaledakis 23/09/2021

The African continent bears the worst brunt of vaccine...

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COVID-19 Threatens To Undo Progress Against Neglected Tropical Diseases

Monique Wasunna 23/09/2021

Kala-azar control progress is threatened by an acute shortage...

Commuters make their way amidst smog on a flyover in New Delhi

WHO Announces Revised Air Quality Limits. Will the New Numbers Save the Day?

Dharmesh Shah 22/09/2021

The much awaited 2021 guidelines reduce the 'acceptable' annual...

A Jatoba tree, originally from the Amazon, is placed in front of the Norwegian Embassy, during a protest by activists seeking symbolic refugee status for the plant, in Brasilia

Brazil: Indigenous Protestors Seek ‘Asylum’ in Norway for Tree

Reuters 22/09/2021

The protest coincided with Jair Bolsonaro at the UN...

FILE PHOTO: Coronavirus disease vaccination event hosted by Miami - Dade County and Miami Heat,at FTX Arena in Miami

‘An Atrocity’: Rich Nations Set To Let 100 Million COVID Vaccines Rot

Andrea Germanos 21/09/2021

Out of the 100 million vaccines set to expire...

An offshore supply vessel used by non-profit the Ocean Cleanup to remove plastic from the ocean is docked at a port in Victoria

Ocean Cleanup Struggles To Fulfill Promise to Scoop up Plastic at Sea

Gloria Dickie 18/09/2021

Ocean Cleanup, launched in 2013 amid buoyant media coverage,...