Country: India Source: Médecins Sans Frontières MSF is responding to the crisis in Mumbai. Teams are treating COVID-19 patients in a massive 2,000 bed facility set up by the Indian government.

For the year ending August 2020, provisional data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that opioid overdose deaths increased 26.8 percent compared to the previous 12 months, with opioid overdoses resulting in more than 88,000 deaths. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has observed that […]

Country: occupied Palestinian territory Source: Save the Children Since mid-April, more than 200 Palestinians – including at least 11 children – and a dozen Israelis have been injured. There are reports of children being detained, injured, and exposed to tear gas.

Event Post May 7, 2021 Global Food Policy Report 2021: The challenges of food system transformation Ying Visser Mariëlle Karssenberg Plotting a course for post-pandemic innovations—a discussion organized with the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Netherlands Food Partnership.

The vast ice sheets in Antarctica are set to undergo “rapid and unstoppable” melting in coming decades as a result of climate change. Worse: come 2060 a sudden jump in ice melt will raise sea levels precipitously worldwide, inundating low-lying coastal areas. This is according to the authors of a […]