This year’s UN climate conference, underway in the United Arab Emirates’ largest city, Dubai, opened its second full week hearing a diverse cross-section of women leaders and activists raise their voices to call for ending existing gender gaps and mitigating the worsening impacts of climate change on women and girls. Prevailing gender norms, existing inequalities…
Ahead of the first ever ‘Health Day’ at a UN climate conference, delegates signed onto a new declaration on climate and health and separately considered the role of digital technology can play in climate action. The UN World Health Organization (WHO) welcomed the new declaration, which aims to help accelerate actions to protect people from…
Releasing its 2023 World Malaria Report as nations gather at the UN climate change conference, COP28, the health agency warned that despite expanding access to malaria prevention, more people are getting sick with the disease. WHO documented 249 million cases in 2022, an increase of two million from 2021 and exceeding the pre-pandemic level of…
RCS (Reach Communication System) is a modern messaging system on mobile phones. Photo: File After the introduction of RCS i.e. Reach Communication System, equipped with modern and new features from short messaging system (SMS) to chat with mobile phones, Apple phones said that their mobile phones coming from next year will support this system. ….
First Sergeant Renita Rismayanti received the prestigious Woman Police Officer of the Year Award during a ceremony at UN Headquarters in New York. At 27, she is the youngest recipient in the Award’s 13-year history. Working for change Ms. Rismayanti is deployed as a crime database officer at MINUSCA, which has a mandate that includes…
California: Social networking platform Threads introduced a new change in post sharing for users. According to users, under a change introduced by Threads in the settings, they will now be able to prevent posts shared on Threads from appearing on Instagram and Facebook. To prevent Threads post from being shared on other Meta platforms, users…
Durham: Researchers have claimed that pictorial warnings of climate and health risks on meat products can reduce meat consumption. A team from Durham University has created labels that carry warning messages. These labels read ‘Caution! Eating meat can contribute to climate change’ and the warning is accompanied by an image of a barren area. The…
The recent launch of the UN-led AI Advisory Body advanced a growing global trend to harness machine learning to find solutions to common challenges. AI is upping the data crunching game and a growing number of governments, businesses and civil society partners are working together to reap its many benefits. That includes speeding up and scaling efforts…
Nepal has lost almost a third of its ice volume in 30 years, with glaciers melting 65 per cent faster in the last decade than in the previous one. “The rooftops of the world are caving in,” the UN chief said, warning that the “disappearance of glaciers altogether” looms even larger. “Glaciers are icy reservoirs…
London: We all know that there are many things we need to do to have healthy skin, including drinking water regularly and avoiding the sun, but according to experts, it is also important to watch our sleeping patterns to prevent skin damage. Experts are warning people against sleeping in a position that puts pressure on…
