Tuberculosis (TB) is curable and preventable. Yet in 2021, around 1.6 million people died from the disease. Worldwide measles cases spiked by 79% in the first two months of 2022, despite a licensed vaccine against the disease being available since 1963. In refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, an outbreak of diphtheria – another disease preventable through vaccines – saw nearly …
The air in Mexico City was once so toxic that people watched as dead birds fell out of the sky. In 1992, the United Nations declared the city the most polluted in the world, with its unregulated diesel engines, factory production, fossil-fuel powered energy plants, and widespread use of internal-combustion engines, all trapped in a …
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Friday proposed a plan to tighten air pollution standards for the first time in a decade. The shift would aim to cut down on deadly particle pollution, otherwise known as soot, which is responsible for killing thousands yearly and disproportionately causing negative health …
Apps have their limits and challenges. But these nine offer tips, resources and motivation to help users be better climate citizens in the coming year. Want to produce less waste in 2023? Buy greener products? Support eco-friendly causes? There is, of course, an app for that. Actually, there are well over 100 apps, for both …
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The Flipkart Group plans to achieve this target through adoption of instruments like rooftop solar (RTS), Oopen Aaccess, and evolving market instruments in coming times Flipkart, an e-commerce marketplace, has committed that 100 per cent of its electricity needs will come from renewable sources by 2030. The Flipkart Group plans to achieve this target through …
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