Map of the Day: Measles Outbreaks Around the World Mark Leon Goldberg August 13, 2019The World Health Organization released new measles surveillance data this week, and the outlook is not good. The data shows that there have been more measles cases worldwide in the first six months of 2019 than...
Four Ways We Can Use Land Better to Avoid Food Shortages and Prevent a Climate Crisis Joanne Lu August 9, 2019The verdict is in: Humans and climate change are putting the land on which we live under immense and growing pressure. But that same land could be part of the solution. On Thursday the UN’s Intergovernmental P...
The White House is Trying to Circumvent Congress to Strip Funding for Diplomacy and Development Mark Leon Goldberg August 6, 2019The White House is seeking to circumvent Congress to enact sweeping budget cuts on programs that support global development, diplomacy and the United Nations. On August third, the White House Office of Budget ...
It is the One Year Anniversary of the Ebola Outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Mark Leon Goldberg July 31, 2019August 1 marks the first anniversary of the ongoing ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It's a grim milestone.Since first detected last year, ebola has sickened over 2,600 people and kil...
Spain Has Figured Out How to Save the Lives of Migrants at Sea. The Rest of the EU Should Follow Mark Leon Goldberg July 30, 2019Ed note. This article by Luna Vives, Assistant Professor of Geography and Migration, Université de Montréal is from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. According to the International Organiz...
Yukia Amano, Who Lead the International Atomic Energy Agency, Has Died In Office. Who Will Next Lead the IAEA? Mark Leon Goldberg July 23, 2019The director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency Yukia Amano has died in office. Amano was a highly respected international diplomat who will best be remembered for successfully implementing the I...
The World Health Organization Just Declared an Ebola “Emergency” in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Here’s What That Means Mark Leon Goldberg July 17, 2019The ongoing ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is officially a public health emergency, according to the World Health Organization.Specifically, the WHO today designated the outbreak as ...
UN Report Finds Opioids Are Responsible for Nearly 400,000 Deaths Worldwide Joanne Lu July 17, 2019The global opioid crisis is worse than we thought. Thanks to new and more precise data from India and Nigeria – two countries that are among the 10 most populous in the world – the World Drug Report 2019, publ...
Countries with the Highest Murder Rates, Ranked in a New UN Report Joanne Lu July 12, 2019Armed conflicts are becoming deadlier as violence intensifies, but a new United Nations (UN) report reveals that actually, intentional homicide kills far more people. In fact, according to the hefty Global Stu...
