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Every year, 1.7 million children die because they live in unhealthy environments. More than one in four deaths of all children under the age of five are the result of air pollution, second-hand smoke, unsafe water…
Sand and dust storms affect the health and livelihoods of millions of people across the world. The two worst affected regions are North Africa and West Asia, including the Arabian Peninsula and Middle East. How do…
Ministers, Excellencies, Executive Secretary, Ladies and gentlemen, Ostrava is the perfect place to host this conference. Not just because of the legacy of heavy industry that brought prosperity and pollution in…
Picking up trash on a beach isn’t how most kids like to spend their weekends. But dozens of people – including local school children – turned up for a clean-up on Kenya’s Watamu Beach, where participants collected…
A non-governmental organization is helping educate people to build a brighter future on the shores of Lake Victoria. Mbita town lies on the Kenyan side of Lake Victoria in Homa Bay County. Once a vibrant fishing…
Last year, one of Britain’s last surviving killer whales was found dead on the shores of a Scottish island. The whale, known as Lulu, had died after becoming entangled in fishing lines, but subsequent tests…
On February 20th 2017, the Government of South Sudan, the world’s newest nation, declared famine, becoming the first country to do so since 2012. According to the latest Integrated Food Security Phase…
One of the deadliest natural disasters in recorded history took place in 2004. Although precise casualty figures will never be known, the Boxing Day Tsunami is believed to have killed up to 280,000 people across 14…
By Andrea Erickson, Managing Director, Water Security The journey of our water from source to tap is long, and not one we think much about. For most of us, our water starts high in the mountains, hundreds of miles…
AIDS currently affects about 36.7 million people in the world. At the end of 2015, around 2.1 million people were newly infected, and 1.1 million died from AIDS-related disease. Since the start of the epidemic, 78…
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