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“Universal health care is a contract between people and their governments.  It’s a nation’s promise to its people.” - Dr Sania Nishtar   Global healthcare should be a fundamental, universal human right. ...

    Dengue fever is a life threatening, mosquito-borne virus. Spread by the same mosquito that carries the Zika virus, half the world’s population is now at risk – and it’s on...

Generation Rescue      

How is it that the same megastorm can take so many lives in one country, while just across the border people survive the chaos and devastation? And as the frequency and intensity...

How is it that the same megastorm can take so many lives in one country, while just across the border people survive the chaos and devastation? And as the frequency and intensity...

All you need is fog. Here's how to extract water from the air. It's a low-tech, cheap way to get fresh water as it becomes increasingly hard to get in many parts...

Everyone wants a car, but what happens if that dream comes true? In India cheap cars are starting to flood the market and those dreams are becoming reality. But at what price?...

For millions of people glaciers are a major store of fresh water, collecting in the winter and then melting in the hotter dry season and keeping rivers flowing, farmers farming and cities...

The climate is changing and droughts are getting worse. Food riots have become an all too familiar response to shortages and rising prices. Can science deliver the answers?

Our climate is changing, droughts are more severe and last longer. A regional drought can be a global disaster prompting food riots in distant countries. Was Australia's decade long drought a taste...