Key Stories 2009: One Billion Hungry
Chronic hunger reached levels not seen since 1970 with one sixth of humanity malnourished. For the world’s poorest, the three-year food crisis refused to go away.
Chronic hunger reached levels not seen since 1970 with one sixth of humanity malnourished. For the world’s poorest, the three-year food crisis refused to go away.
Once science fiction, nanotechnology has become the ordinary. Nano-silver is now used in a multitude of products, from clothing to kitchenware. But a German study points to possible health hazards.
Once science fiction, nanotechnology has become the ordinary. Nano-silver is now used in a multitude of everyday products, from clothing to kitchenware. But a study by the German branch of Friends of the Earth points to possible health hazards.
Natural disasters are as much a result of poverty and weak government as plate tectonics and the weather. Disaster risk is overwhelmingly concentrated in the poorer parts of the world.
They measure only three millimeters from head to toe, but as far as managing infectious disease is concerned, ants seem to be a huge step ahead of us.
The world could save millions of lives and billions of dollars by making road travel safer thereby tackling a global pandemic more deadly than malaria.
