The annual commemoration, now in its 10th year, highlights the positive role sport plays in communities and lives across the globe. Elite and amateur athletes of all ages joined industry experts, diplomats and UN officials for the event – the first to be held in-person since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. This year,…
Speaking to reporters in Geneva, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that in Equatorial Guinea, WHO is on the ground supporting the outbreak response. “We have deployed teams to assist with case finding, clinical care, logistics, and community engagement. We have also helped to establish treatment units in the affected areas,” he said. The number of officially reported…
A nuclear weapon is a weapon that derives its destructive power or power from nuclear reactions such as fission or fusion. Due to the derivation of energy from central physical factors such as fission and fusion, the yield (i.e. the energy released) of a small nuclear weapon is obviously greater than that of a very…
Covering 31 per cent of Earth’s land and providing a home to 80 per cent of all land-based species, forests are crucial to human health and well-being, but their loss across the planet is threatening people everywhere. Here are five things you need to know about the age-old and ever-growing interlinked relationship between forests and…
“The impact of rising seas is already creating new sources of instability and conflict,” said UN Secretary-General António Guterres, who opened the meeting. Noting that some nations’ coastlines have already seen triple the average rate of sea level rise, he warned that, in the coming decades, low-lying communities – and entire countries – could disappear forever. “We would witness…
Jupiter has 92 moons and now it has become the planet with the most moons. Photo: File Washington: The competition between the two planets in the solar system for more moons continues. New moons are often discovered between the planets Jupiter and Saturn. Now, with the discovery of new moons, Jupiter has become the planet…
Faith is small This is February 2013. As a result of the meteorite falling in central Russia, the number of injured exceeded eleven hundred. The number of people injured in a single such incident in modern times was described as extraordinary. After the incident, the Russian authorities had sent special teams for cleaning and relief…
The James Webb Space Telescope has for the first time revealed the atmosphere and other chemical components of a distant Earth-like planet in detail that was not possible before and only thanks to modern instruments. The planet is named WASP 39. B is where there is space, clouds and chemical reactions are also taking place…
The main source of heat generated around the atmosphere is the released thermal energy of the sun, which spreads in all directions in the form of solar rays passing through space and reaching the surface of the earth through space and space. This heat is not immediately absorbed by the atmosphere. Due to this the…
