This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In 2000 malaria killed 47 people per 100,000 of those at risk. In 2015, the most recent year for which figures are available, that had dropped to 19—a fall of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In 2015, United Nations member states agreed to make Universal Health Coverage (UHC) by 2030 one of the Sustainable Development Goals. Why? Because without satisfactory health coverage for individuals, the well-being of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. December 12 marked the two-year anniversary of the Paris Agreement, the historic global accord to combat climate change. Signed by every country on the planet, the goal of the agreement…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The World Bank will no longer finance upstream oil and gas after 2019, it announced recently, winning praise from civil society for its “true climate leadership.” The announcement was met with whoops and sustained…
Western countries throw out nearly half of their food, not because it’s inedible — but because it doesn’t look appealing. Tristram Stuart delves into the shocking data of wasted food,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. From the United States, Germany, and Greece to Kenya, Iran, and the Dominican Republic, national governments in 2017 reinforced their determination to return unwelcome migrants and, in some cases, refugees…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Flying Eye Hospital, currently parked on Moffett Field in Mountain View, is a mobile ophthalmological hospital, technological marvel, and surely one of the most extraordinary vehicles on the planet. It…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The daughter of late philanthropist David Rockefeller Peggy Dulany is what you call a problem-solver: she knows how to observe and analyze complex situations, determine who will be best positioned…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights,” reads Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Here are six facts you may not know about…
The SDGs represent a very high level of ambition not only because of the breadth of the issues involved ranging from poverty to inequality to safeguarding the environment but also…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In Puerto Rico, Hughes, an international provider of broadband satellite services, deployed over 900 very small aperture terminals, or VSATs, at sites around the region after Hurricane Maria, enabling broadband-tier speeds…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Former head of the United States Agency for International Development, Gayle Smith, said that she has never been more worried about the scale of crisis in the world and called on…