Research Post June 29, 2020 Micronutrient status in the DR Congo: What to do when diet and blood measurements do and don’t align Kristina Michaux Erick Boy Looking at the varying prevalence of zinc and vitamin A deficiencies among women and children.

Country: World Source: World Food Programme WFP is ramping up the number of people it assists to 138 million from a record 97 million in 2019. But sustained funding is urgently required, so WFP is seeking $4.9 billion over the next six months.

On a blue-sky day in May, as the coronavirus raged across the world, the Chinese flag was raised on a remote nation with a total population of 116,000, thousands of miles from Beijing.

Back in February, Amazon owner Jeff Bezos – the richest man in the world – made a US$10 billion commitment to fight climate change. Now he’s putting the climate fight in the marquee lights, after Amazon acquired the naming rights for a new sports stadium in Seattle and announced it […]

As people were being forced to stay home with nationwide lockdowns across much of the world earlier this year to contain the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic, our collective carbon footprint started to drop. In April daily global carbon emissions dropped by 17%. That was good news. The trouble is […]