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Globally, youth are the largest poverty-stricken group
Half of all people living in poverty are younger than 18 years old, according to estimates from a new report released on Thursday by...
Clean and Resilient Growth in Bangladesh
Every year Bangladesh loses about $6.5 billion, or about 3.4 percent of its 2015 GDP, which may be caused by pollution and environmental degradation...
Invisibility Cloaks Step out of the Shadows as one of 2018’s Top Emerging Technologies
The World Economic Forum today releases its annual list of top ten emerging technologies that have the most potential to deliver transformational changes to...
Air pollution: Know your enemy
Sometimes you can’t even see it, but air pollution is everywhere.
Perhaps you think that air pollution doesn’t affect you because you don’t live in...
Analysis of new U.S. coal plant rules shows deadly dangers of air pollution
An analysis of a new draft rule to regulate greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. power generation sector clearly demonstrates the dangers of air...
The Unreal, the Real and the Vaccine Scare
In a few weeks time, school will resume in many countries, and quite a few parents now worry about the dangers of vaccination. Are...
Prevalence of Unsafe Abortion
Every day in India, 13 women die of unsafe abortions. It accounts for 10 to 12 per cent of total maternal deaths in Pakistan,...
Finally being diagnosed with bipolar
I was finally diagnosed with bipolar mood disorder after Tara. I spent 6 months in a mental institution in Johannesburg. Mental illness stamped on...
13 Health Tech Innovators Changing the World
Thirteen early career scientists from across the Asia-Pacific who are revolutionizing healthcare technology have been named finalists for the 2018 APEC Science Prize for...
After being diagnosed “Perhaps Schizophrenic”
Risperdal, do you know it. Zopiclone, Pax, Ativan, Lithium (yes, the drug that has brought millions to their knees, that sent me flying into...