Heat wave deaths in Pakistan’s financial hub reach 780
Pakistan’s financial capital of Karachi is wilting in a four-day heat wave that has killed more than 780 people, a health charity said Wednesday, as the government declared a holiday in the...
Climate change threatens 50 years of progress in global health
Climate change threatens to undermine half a century of progress in global health, according to a major new report. But the analysis also concludes that the benefits to health resulting from...
Modern humans and Neanderthals ‘interbred in Europe’
Modern humans and Neanderthals interbred in Europe, an analysis of 40,000-year-old DNA suggests. The study suggests an early Homo sapiens settler in Europe harboured a Neanderthal ancestor just a...
The streets were paved with algae: a greener material?
The process of surfacing a road isn’t complicated. Layers of asphalt, which is composed mostly of bitumen (a byproduct of crude oil distillation), are poured over an aggregate of crushed stone and...
Ton of ivory crushed in Times Square to highlight poaching
The U.S. government is crushing more than a ton of confiscated illegal ivory in Times Square in an effort to halt elephant poaching and ivory trafficking. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell said...
a third of German food lands in the trash
The report, titled “The big throw away,” was published by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) on Thursday in Berlin. While almost 1 billion people are suffering from hunger worldwide,...
Thailand took four days to confirm first MERS case, 59 being monitored
Thai authorities took nearly four days to confirm the country’s first case of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), the health ministry said Friday, a time lag likely to raise fears of a...
S. Korea’s MERS toll rises to 23 with three more deaths
South Korea reported three more deaths from the MERS virus Thursday, bringing the number of fatalities to 23 and amplifying fears that authorities do not have the outbreak under control after the...
