Sustainability

Unsplash/Dan Freeman Rapid industrialization over the past 30 years and subsequent urbanization and intensification of agricultural production in the southeast...

UN-Habitat/Felix Vollmann Hundreds of people have typically collected waste for a living on the site in the Ethiopian capital, Addis...

2014: UN tackles worst Ebola outbreak in history Dr. Bruce Aylward, Special Representative of the Director-General for the Ebola Response...

Kenya, Mozambique and Niger curbed different outbreaks of vaccine-derived poliovirus over the past 24 months which affected 14 children.  Although wild poliovirus virus has...

“For the first time the number of tobacco users is declining worldwide”, Dr Ruediger Krech, Director of the Department of...

This points to what the UN agency described as “an encouraging trend” in prevention and control in major cholera hotspots...

The $34 million flash appeal will support more than 260,000 people “with lifesaving interventions” until April next year, Jens Laerke...

Time to ‘move the dial’ on climate ambition Six days after the originally scheduled closing of COP25, the head of...

The UN health agency has prequalified the biosimilar version of the medicine trastuzumab, which has shown high efficacy in curing early stage breast...

A new report, published in the British medical science publication The Lancet on Monday, suggests that, globally, almost 2.3 billion...