Air and Water in the OECD Report
Around the world urban air pollution is expected to become one of the biggest environmental causes of premature death in the coming decades. According to an OECD report by 2050, there could be 3.6 million premature deaths a year from exposure to particulate matter. Most of those deaths are expected to come from China and [...]
Calendar of Environmental Events 2012
FEBRUARY February 2 : World Wetlands Day February 20 : World Day of Social Justice MARCH March 14 : International Day of Action Against Dams and For Rivers, Water and Life March 21 : World Forestry Day March 22 : World Water Day March 23 : World Meteorological Day March 26 : Earth Hour Blog [...]
Earth Day 2012 on top of the World (VIDEO)
I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests Pablo Neruda It was almost 9.30 p.m as Jan Shatabdi Express from Delhi sluggishly rolled in alongside Dehradun. I left the comfort [...]
Economics, wars and crimes
Guinea Pigs During world war two in Tuskegee, Alabama the American government on behalf of American pharmaceutical industry started a syphilis, and gonorrhea experiment. Without the knowledge of African Americans the American government ejected them with the syphilis, and gonorrhea viruses to test the affect of syphilis, and gonorrhea on the human body, African Americans [...]
Award to Aeras Boosts hunt for TB vaccine
Aeras has on Thursday announced the receipt of a grant by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation of up to US $220 million over five years, placing it at the forefront of a global scientific initiative aimed at developing safe, effective vaccines against tuberculosis, a disease that infects two billion people worldwide. “We are grateful [...]
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Aeras, GSK deal to Advance TB Vaccine research
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Kenya’s Professionals call for a supreme natural resource law
Africans innovators called to participate in Project Incubator Award
Israel goes to the polls in two or three months
Morsi’s 100 days, a performance which is viewed with mixed feelings
Syria: Arrest of prominent human rights defender Mr Khalil Matouk
