By Ed Holt BRATISLAVA, May 2 2023 (IPS)- While there is no established causal relationship between climate change and tuberculosis (TB), studies have begun to highlight the potential impact its...
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By Ed Holt BRATISLAVA, May 2 2023 (IPS)- While there is no established causal relationship between climate change and tuberculosis (TB), studies have begun to highlight the potential impact its...
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By Kwan Soo-Chen and David McCoy KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Feb 28 2023 (IPS) - Global warming and climate breakdown are going to be disruptive to say the least. Humanity’s insistence on unsustainable...
**NEW YORK, Sep 14 2022 (IPS) **- Cross-continent vacations seem to be the norm once again with the lessening of COVID-19 while new cities are being built with skyscraping $4M condos shooting up in a...
Por Lorena Guzmán Hormozábal SANTIAGO, 5 feb 2021 (IPS)- Solo en un año, 4,8 millones de latinoamericanos pasaron a vivir en extrema pobreza debido a la crisis sanitaria actual. Pero si la...
By Reaz Haider This report is produced by UNB United News of Bangladesh and IPS Inter Press Service. DHAKA, Bangladesh, Jan 15 2019 (UNB and IPS) - As a country with a large coastline, the adverse...
DUBAI, Sep 30 2018 (WAM) - The Ministry of Climate Change and Environment (MOCCAE) has conducted an overall assessment of climate adaptation in the health context in the UAE. Through surveys and a...
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 24 2018 (IPS) - The United Nations warned last month that the accelerating impacts of climate change—“already clearly visible today”– have triggered an unpredictable wave of...
By Will Higginbotham UNITED NATIONS, Feb 2 2018 (IPS) - In Iraq, thirty years of armed conflict has killed hundreds of thousands of people, wounded countless more, displaced millions and laid cities...
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Por Desmond Brown SAINT JOHN, 20 sep 2017 (IPS) - A medida que el huracán María arrasa en el Caribe, aparecen lentamente los últimos datos sobre el número de muertos y el grado de devastación dejado...
By Neeta Lal NEW DELHI, Jul 26 2016 (IPS) - Deepa Kumari, a 36-year-old farmer from Pithoragarh district in the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand, lives in a one-room tenement in south Delhi’s...
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By Jed Alegado and Angeli Guadalupe Jed Alegado is an incoming graduate student at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) in The Hague, Netherlands. Angeli Guadalupe is a medical doctor...
By Marianela Jarroud SANTIAGO, Apr 21 2015 (IPS) - Chile lives under the constant threat of spillage from tailings ponds, which became even more marked in late March after heavy rains fell in the...
Por Jewel Fraser PUERTO ESPAÑA, 25 feb 2015 (IPS) - Cuando Jenny Gittens se fue a dormir en su casa de la capital de Trinidad y Tobago se sentía bien. Pero una hora después se despertó con “un...
By Jewel Fraser TRINIDAD, Feb 20 2015 (IPS) - Jenny had gone to bed feeling well, but an hour into her sleep she suddenly awoke with a “stiff, cramping pain” behind one knee. Within the next hour the...
By Kizito Makoye DAR ES SALAAM, Feb 18 2014 (IPS) - Residents in low-lying areas in Tanzania’s largest city, Dar es Salaam, are potentially at risk of contracting waterborne diseases as heavy rains,...
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ROSEAU, Dominica, Jan 20 2014 (IPS) - Caribbean countries, struggling to emerge from a slump in exports and falling tourist arrivals brought on by the worldwide economic crisis that began five years...
SANTIAGO DE CUBA, Nov 23 2012 (IPS) - “The city looked as if it had been bombed. On the way to my office, I passed people who had the same shocked look on their faces as I did. We would look at each...
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By Busani Bafana Oct 19 2012 (IPS) - In a major endorsement for investment in women – the bulk of food growers in the developing world – United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said food...
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UNITED NATIONS, Jul 10 2012 (IPS) - Knowledge-sharing has become a cornerstone of successful cooperation among developing countries, in areas ranging from agriculture to health and renewable...
By Julio Godoy PARIS, May 30, 2012 (IPS) - The reproductive rights agenda, from improving women’s access to education to systematic family planning to reducing birth rates and combating poverty, has...