559 million children are currently exposed to high heat waves; like temperatures, that number will only continue to rise. Even under the best possible conditions, by 2050, all 2.02 billion…
Nearly 500 million people worldwide will develop a chronic disease between 2020 and 2030 due to lack of exercise, the World Health Organization (WHO) expects in a new report. It…
Things are going in the wrong direction regarding tackling climate change. That is the conclusion of a new United Nations World Meteorological Organization (WMO) climate report, published Tuesday. The…
The World Health Organization calls for global mental health reform. This is especially important because the number of people suffering from mental problems has risen sharply since the start of…
More than two-thirds of the world’s population had antibodies to the coronavirus in October last year, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported. This means that this group of people…
The fourth round of negotiations at a UN conference to conclude a treaty on the world’s seas has ended without an agreement. It should have been the last conference on…
The Omicron variant of the coronavirus poses a major global risk that countries should prepare for. The World Health Organization (WHO) said so on Monday. Outbreaks of the new…
Worldwide, nearly 2 million people die every year from work-related illnesses and accidents. That writes the United Nations in a report. Diseases caused by very long working hours are a…
The Chinese economy, the second-largest in the world, will grow faster this year than previously thought. That says the World Bank, which now expects growth of 8.5 percent, compared to…
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson expects the seven major industrialized nations meeting in his country this weekend for a G7 summit will make at least 1 billion vaccines available to…