Tag: WHO

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), electronic waste (e-waste) is one of the fastest-growing waste streams today. While most ...

While there appears to be no single study that definitively predicts a surge in pandemics, the scientific consensus is clear: ...

Short-term exposure to high levels of air pollution kills more than one million people every year. And while Asia and ...

After several years of effort, Pandemic Agreement negotiators deliberating in Geneva at the World Health Organization (WHO) headquarters, were still ...

Negotiators from the European Parliament and Council have reached a provisional agreement on a new law designed to significantly reduce ...

The COVID-19 pandemic gave the world a crash course in epidemiology and showed in real time how an infectious disease can spread ...

In September 2020, the investigative podcast “Radiolab” published an episode exploring the story of a mysterious fungal infection appearing simultaneously ...

Air pollution is already widely understood to impact both our environment and health. In an urbanised world, household combustible devices, ...

In existence since 2018, the Global Preparedness Monitoring Board (GPMB) was established as an independent body upon the recommendations of ...

This week, the World Health Organization (WHO) published a report on tobacco control measures around the world, highlighting that 5.6 ...

The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) and the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Food and Agriculture Organization ...

Updated March 22, with the news of warnings from the Global BioLabs Report 2023. The COVID-19 pandemic has affected the world ...