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Two-thirds of the African continent, according to a new climate vulnerability index, is at increasing risk of extreme shocks among 64 ‘most-at-risk’ nations.
Climate Health Research

Forty-three Sub-Saharan African nations on a climate ‘red zone’ list

HQ Team June 26, 2025: Two-thirds of the African continent, according to a new climate vulnerability index, is at increasing risk of extreme.

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US-based researchers at Northeastern University are trying to unravel how axolotls, a small salamander, a smooth-skinned amphibian that often lives in watery or damp places, regrow entire limbs and even organs, and may hold the secret to replicating it in humans.
Climate Health Research

Axolotls may hold the key to human organ regeneration: US researchers

 HQ Team June 23, 2025: US-based researchers at Northeastern University are trying to unravel how axolotls, a small salamander, a smooth-skinned amphibian that.

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The UK Health Security Agency and the Met Office have issued an amber heat-health alert for all regions of England for the next four days.
Climate Health Medical

UK health agency, Met Office, issues an amber alert as temperatures rise

HQ Team June 19, 2025: The UK Health Security Agency and the Met Office have issued an amber heat-health alert for all regions.

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Scientists are embarking on a journey to build a plant that yields nutritious food, survives heatwaves and leaves that grow useful materials.
Climate Drugs Health

UK scientists to build world’s first artificial plant chromosome, chloroplasts

HQ Team June 12, 2025: Scientists are embarking on a journey to build a plant that yields nutritious food, survives heatwaves and leaves.

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Denmark’s Novo Nordisk A/S and US-based Deep Apple Therapeutics Inc. signed an $812 million agreement to develop an oral small molecule targeting cardiometabolic diseases, such as obesity.
Climate Health Research

Novo Nordisk in $812m pact with Deep Apple for oral small molecule

HQ Team June 11, 2025: Denmark’s Novo Nordisk A/S and US-based Deep Apple Therapeutics Inc. signed an $812 million agreement to develop an.

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Ocean acidification, a process by which the world’s oceans absorb excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, becoming more acidic, crossed a “planetary boundary” or safety limit five years ago, a study finds.
Climate Health Research

Ocean acidification: ‘A ticking time bomb’ for marine systems, study finds

HQ Team June 11, 2025: Ocean acidification, a process by which the world’s oceans absorb excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, becoming more.

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A virus belonging to the bat family, and closely related to the deadly Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV), may be a small mutation away from spilling over to humans and causing a pandemic.
Climate Health Research

Bat family virus, similar to MERS-CoV, has potential to cause a pandemic

 HQ Team June 9, 2025: A virus belonging to the bat family, and closely related to the deadly Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus.

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More than one in four cars sold worldwide is set to be electric this year, as the growth of electric vehicles is on course to exceed 40% in another five years, according to an International Energy Agency report.
Climate Health Research

Adaption of electric vehicles surges globally: One in four cars sold is an EV

HQ Team May 19, 2025: More than one in four cars sold worldwide is set to be electric this year, as the growth.

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Global deaths due to COVID-19 have fallen by 95% since January, and nations need to take steps to manage virus variants alongside other infectious diseases, the WHO director-general said.
Climate Health Research

Global hunger crisis reaches breaking point: 295M face starvation

HQ Team May 16, 2025: The world is losing its battle against hunger. The latest Global Report on Food Crises reveals a sixth consecutive year.

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South American country Peru has declared a health emergency in 20 of the nation’s 25 regions due to an increase in dengue cases.
Climate Health

Dengue on the rise in India: Climate change widens world danger zones

HQ Team May 16, 2025: Dengue fever has become a serious and growing health threat in India, especially between July and mid-November. Recent.

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