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A sponge-like material with long, microscopic air pockets that uses sunlight and a simple plastic cover can turn saltwater into freshwater, according to Chinese researchers.

Chinese researchers use aerogels, sunlight to desalinate seawater

HQ Team July 6, 2025: A sponge-like material with long, microscopic air pockets that uses sunlight and a simple plastic cover can turn.

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July 6, 2025
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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.

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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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June 26, 2025
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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.

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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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June 12, 2025
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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.

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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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May 16, 2025
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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.

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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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May 16, 2025
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Social determinants such as quality housing, education, and job opportunities can influence people’s health outcomes more than genetic influences or access to healthcare, according to a WHO report.

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Housing, education, jobs vital to health outcomes, not genes: WHO

HQ Team May 6, 2025: Social determinants such as quality housing, education, and job opportunities can influence people’s health outcomes more than genetic.

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May 6, 2025
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Africa’s health sector faces an ‘unprecedented’ financing crisis, driven by a sharp fall of 70% in official development assistance (ODA) — a barometer for international aid flow, according to a concept paper from the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention.

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Africa’s health sector facing ‘unprecedented’ financial crisis: CDC

HQ Team April 4, 2025: Africa’s health sector faces an ‘unprecedented’ financing crisis, driven by a sharp fall of 70% in official development.

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April 4, 2025
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Climate threatens global cocoa supply, chocolate prices set to soar by 2030

HQ Team February 27, 2025: West Africa’s cocoa-producing region is facing a climate crisis, with rising temperatures, threatening the quantity and quality of.

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February 27, 2025
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Greenhouse gas emissions will rob the Arctic ice as early as the 2030s in summer, resulting in a significant impact on seals and polar bears, and triggering coastal erosion.

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Decline in Arctic ice impacting polar bear habitat and gut health

HQ Team December 17, 2024: In a study conducted in Churchill, Manitoba—often dubbed the “Polar Bear Capital of the World”—researchers from Dalhousie University.