Countries: Central African Republic, Iraq, Mali, World Source: International Committee of the Red Cross Countries hit by conflict are also disproportionately impacted by climate change, a double threat that displaces people, disrupts food production, cuts off supplies, amplifies diseases and weakens healthcare.

Russian authorities have warned people near the country’s border with Mongolia not to hunt or eat marmots after an outbreak of bubonic plague.

Country: South Sudan Source: UN High Commissioner for Refugees Ending violence has never been more urgent as the impacts of fighting are further compounded by COVID-19. Restrictions on movement due to the lockdown are hampering the ability of agencies to deliver aid.

Research Post July 8, 2020 Should low-income countries decentralize their COVID-19 responses? Katrina Kosec Tewodaj Mogues Key social services are often neglected when local governments run support programs, research in Ethiopia shows.

The planet is warming. That we’ve known. It is warming much fastest near the poles. That we’ve also known. Yet just how fast that warming has been still comes as a surprise. The Arctic has warmed by 0.75 degrees Celsius over the last decade alone, which is a rate much […]