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...ties get hit with short, intense bursts of dirty air. (Both long-term and short-term exposure are harmful to human health. Long-term exposure is generally thought to contribute to a larger mortality b...

2 May 2024

...that grant them mostly equal treatment with EU nationals on paper, but the short-term nature of their work can make them vulnerable to exploitation. According to 2021 data from Italy's national statis...

6 Sep 2024

Migrant women at risk of violence and exploitation

...tting them at a greater risk of extortion and exploitation. Women’s rights don’t stay at home when they migrate. Yet across borders, migrant women are often left without the rights protec...

9 Jan 2026

...ted across the country, making patient tracking and testing more difficult, according to a statement sent to Context/the Thomson Reuters Foundation. South Africa had a TB incidence rate of 427 per 100...

4 Jun 2025

...t swathes of land unlivable to this day, and contaminated the Pacific Ocean with the regular release of tonnes of “treated” polluted water. It should have firmly settled the debate on whether nuclear ...

11 Mar 2025

Bridging global divides: Hamburg Sustainability Conference forges new alliances for a sustainable future

...that international cooperation must be stronger than ever before. If the Hamburg Sustainability Conference didn’t already exist, then now would be the time to invent it. Many of the traditional ...

2 Jun 2025

...ts aligned with Article 6.4 – a clause in the Paris Agreement that enables countries to trade offsets to meet their national climate targets. Additionality concerns However, critics of transition offs...

6 May 2025

A farmer drives his water buffalo through the heat of the day in rural India.

...t Watch reported at least 733 heatstroke deaths in 2024. Many of those affected had pre-existing conditions, making it difficult to accurately determine the actual cause of death. State versus centre...

8 Apr 2025

...to the latest census available. "As the elections approach, it's crucial that the next government introduces policies that bolster the private sector and promote skill-based initiatives to effectively...

18 Sep 2024

...to do with companies "realising that it is harder to meet their targets than they anticipated", following the "giddy days" of the Glasgow COP in 2021 than it has to do with the political environment, ...

12 Nov 2024

Tomakomai carbon capture and storage plant in Japan

...t. Other technologies identified as not currently cost-competitive, but "imperative" for the region to meet its decarbonisation targets include sustainable aviation fuels and heat pumps, which the stu...

17 Oct 2024

...tical tension between the United States and China, stoked by the return of climate-denying reality TV star Donald Trump to the White House, sent jitters through sustainability departments globally in ...

10 Jan 2025

...to imported plastic and e-waste, stressed that plastic pollution not only contaminates land and water but also contributes to biodiversity loss and climate change. “Much of the plastic waste sent to M...

30 Jul 2025

Introduced in 2011, Singapore's blue recycling bins are often treated like rubbish bins.

...t be an estimate. I suspect it is not a contamination rate so much as a rejection rate; meaning that at the materials recovery facility, they are, by mass, rejecting 40 per cent of the material that a...

28 Jul 2025

Investing in making complex ideas accessible: Bridging the gap in sustainable finance data

...ts efforts to strengthen current data platforms, by driving corporate accountability and ensuring strategic alignment with global sustainability targets. Spotlight on Data-Driven Initiatives: Transit...

15 Apr 2025

A large expanse of mud lies before the under-construction palace in Indonesia's new capital Ibu Kota Nusantara, in East Kalimantan.

...te structures, some visitors feel that the site is too hot. “It is much hotter than Balikpapan, maybe because they cut the forest,” said Nadhila. A lot more deforestation is still to come, as the city...

31 Jan 2025

...the most destructive blazes in US history, killing at least 10 people, damaging or destroying some 10,000 structures and causing astronomical damages that threaten to batter the state's already precar...

16 Jan 2025

...to the toxic gas. Prior to filing the lawsuit, the community had petitioned local authorities to intervene, and demonstrated outside the district government office, Slamet said. “Material compensation...

28 May 2025

...tarted out by identifying an alternative drug for cattle that is safe for vultures. That was important. We needed to demonstrate to the veterinary community and obviously to farmers that there are alt...

27 Aug 2024

...th reference to the Kuamut Rainforest Conservation Project, Malaysia’s first nature-based carbon credits scheme, which took 10 years to come to fruition, from inception to auction. The Kuamut project,...

30 Jul 2024

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