NASA Finds Drought in Eastern Mediterranean Worst of Past 900 Years
A new NASA study finds that the recent drought that began in 1998 in the eastern Mediterranean Levant region, which comprises Cyprus, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, and Turkey, is likely...
View ArticleAssessing Risk of Cholera Outbreaks Using Precipitation Data by NASA Goddard
A new modeling approach using satellite data will likely to enhance our ability to develop cholera risk maps in several regions of the globe. The model (GCRM) is based on monthly air temperature,...
View Article"Water and Sanitation-Related Diseases and the Changing Environment:...
The Authoritative Guide to Water and Sanitation Related Diseases, with Many Revised, Updated and New Chapters, Accompanies the First EditionAugmenting authoritative interdisciplinary coverage in the...
View ArticleCoral Research in Palau offers a “Glimmer of Hope”
A team of scientists went to the Western Pacific Island chain of the Republic of Palau to unlock the mysteries of species that may contain a secret of adaptation for survival. The film “Coral: Glimmer...
View ArticleHealthcare Workers: Silent Heroes from Faces of Courage: Intimate Portraits...
Faces of Courage: Intimate Portraits of Women on the Edge, a photo-essay by Mark Tuschman documents the lack of autonomy that women and girls face in the developing world and all the efforts designed...
View ArticleSchistosomiasis Historical perspective: Revisiting the St. Lucia Project a...
In 1965, the government of St. Lucia and the Rockefeller Foundation undertook what became a sixteen-year project to determine the optimal strategy for controlling locally-endemic schistosomiasis...
View ArticleWorld Health Organization (WHO) and UN-Water Call for Increased Investment in...
During World Water Week (25-30 August 2019) in Stockholm, The World Health Organization (WHO) and UN-Water called for an urgent increase in investment in strong drinking-water and sanitation systems....
View ArticleZakaria Ouedraogo of Burkina Faso Produces Film “Nzoue Fiyen: Water Not...
For his Internship with Horizon International, an NGO based at Yale University, Zakaria focused on WASH, seeking stories to film from trash polluting city waterways serving as drinking water for local...
View ArticlePromoting the Development of Rural Water Supply and Sanitation -Case from...
China has made progress in improving water supply and sanitation(WSS) coverage over recent decades. The WSS services include water treatment plants and pipelines, sewer networks and wastewater...
View ArticleVaccine Candidate Against Covid-19 Announced By Pfizer And Biontech On...
“Today is a great day for science and humanity. The first set of results from our Phase 3 COVID-19 vaccine trial provides the initial evidence of our vaccine’s ability to prevent COVID-19,” said Dr....
View ArticleUN Food Systems Summit Receives Over 1,200 Ideas to Help Meet Sustainable...
On April 1, 2021, the UN Food Systems Summit announced that more than 1,200 ideas and propositions to transform food systems were presented in just six months of public engagement.Since September, the...
View ArticleMore than 400 schoolgirls, family and teachers rescued from Afghanistan by...
Jennifer Selendy worked with seven people, including Royesh, to rescue more than 500 people, including more than 400 schoolgirls, their family members and teachers, from October through November,...
View ArticleMangrove Action Project Collaborates to Restore and Preserve Mangrove...
Two successful MAP projects ...are Nai Nang Village in Thailand, and the Bay of Jiquilisco in El Salvador. In both, after the initial Community-based Ecological Mangrove Restoration (CBEMR) training...
View ArticleSTOP ATTACKS ON HEALTH CARE IN UKRAINE
13 March 2022 -- Geneva / New York -- “Today, we call for an immediate cessation of all attacks on health care in Ukraine. These horrific attacks are killing and causing serious injuries to patients...
View ArticleWorld Water Week: Healthy ecosystems essential to human health: from...
Our session will explore “Seeing the unseen: The value of water,” including climate change, ecosystems, sociocultural and economic factors along with how water scarcity, poor water quality and...
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