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COVID-19 updates: WHO reports record daily rise in cases; global infections pass 8.9mn
Jun 22, 2020 08:35The World Health Organization (WHO) has reported the largest single-day increase in coronavirus cases, since the pandemic started around the globe early this year.
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Save the insects, save the farmers, save ourselves: new global report calls for end of industrial agriculture
Jun 18, 2020 10:54A new report released on Tuesday draws attention to the worldwide decline in insects and calls for global policies to boost the conservation of both agriculture and the six-footed creatures. The report points to various studies documenting that loss, including 2018 research finding 41% of insect species are in decline and that one-third of all insect species are threatened by extinction.
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Global COVID-19 cases pass 7.13mn mark, death toll at 406,540
Jun 09, 2020 11:08The total coronavirus infections worldwide now number at 7,136,366, and the toll of related deaths has reached 406,902.
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Heart failure: Poor health literacy raises death risk
Jun 05, 2020 08:31Lila J. Finney Rutten, Ph.D., professor of health services research at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota said “Our findings showed that an inadequate level of health literacy is associated with increased risks in mortality and hospitalization among patients with heart failure.”
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Global COVID-19 cases near 5.5mn mark, WHO warns of 2nd peak
May 26, 2020 09:51The number of confirmed coronavirus infections worldwide now stands at 5,495,061, with 346,232 cases having resulted in loss of life, according to the latest figures compiled by Johns Hopkins University.
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Museums are losing millions but working hard to preserve COVID-19 artifacts
May 20, 2020 10:37In the future, generations will need the means to understand how the coronavirus pandemic affected our world, just as they can now reflect on the Spanish flu or the Black Death. The world heritage sector is already working hard to preserve the COVID-19 moment, predicting that future generations will need documentary evidence, photographic archives and artifacts to help them understand this period of history.
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Over 4.56 million people have COVID-19 worldwide
May 15, 2020 17:23More than 4.56 million people are now infected with the new coronavirus across the world, and over 304,000 have died.
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WHO urges vigilance as world tiptoes out of virus lockdown
May 12, 2020 11:10The coronavirus pandemic continues to take a toll on people around the world, while countries gradually dial down measures to contain their outbreaks, potentially risking more infections and deaths.
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The huge problem of food waste could be twice as big as we thought
May 11, 2020 17:00Consumers around the world could be wasting more than twice as much food as thought, according to an analysis that says previous estimates have been gross underestimates. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) said in 2011 that around a third of food is lost or wasted. This report is considered to have played a key role in food waste reduction becoming one of the world’s Sustainable Development Goals.
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Ecotourism collapse threatens communities and wildlife
May 10, 2020 10:27Throughout the coronavirus pandemic, scientists have repeatedly urged humanity to reset its relationship with nature or suffer worse outbreaks. But the economic consequences of the COVID-19 lockdown have raised fears of a surge in poaching, illegal fishing and deforestation in life-sustaining ecosystems, with tens of thousands of jobs in the ecotourism sector at risk around the world.