Avainsana: risk
Time to get off the couch, WHO warns, as 500 million risk developing chronic illness
Physical activity improves overall well-being. Almost 500 million people will develop heart disease, obesity, diabetes or other noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) attributable to physical inactivity, between…
Almost half of the EU + UK territory at risk of drought
A staggering portion of Europe – (44% of EU+UK) and alert (9% of EU+UK) -is currently exposed to warning drought levels, an assessment of…
Study Develops Framework for Forecasting Contribution of Snowpack to Flood Risk During Winter Storms
In the Sierra Nevada, midwinter “rain-on-snow” events occur when rain falls onto existing snowpack and have resulted in some of the region’s biggest and most…
Biodiversity at risk, threatens human survival, UN forum hears
As the living tissue of the earth, biodiversity is “intimately linked to human health” the head of the UN’s scientific agency told a global forum…
UN agencies call for urgent action to avert famine risk in 20 ‘hunger hotspots’
Famine is already on the doorstep of millions of families in 20 countries, two UN agencies warned on Tuesday in a report that calls for…
Legal wildlife trade needs monitoring to reduce risk of a new pandemic
With three out of four newly emerging infectious human diseases originating in animals, there is an urgent need to monitor the legal trade in wildlife,…
More than half of COVID-19 health care workers at risk for mental health problems
The daily toll of COVID-19, as measured by new cases and the growing number of deaths, overlooks a shadowy set of casualties: the rising risk…
Water, hygiene woes at health facilities putting lives at risk: UN report
Lack of basic water and sanitation services at health facilities has put around 1.8 billion health workers and patients at higher risk of COVID-19…
UN food agencies warn of rising levels of acute hunger with potential risk of famine in four hotspots : Burkina Faso, northeastern Nigeria, South Sudan and Yemen cause for concern but acute hunger on the rise across the globe
The world has been put on a heightened famine alert with a new report by two United Nations agencies that contains a stark warning; four…
Progress against tuberculosis ‘at risk’: WHO
Urgent action and funding are needed to sustain progress in the global fight against tuberculosis (TB), the UN World Health Organization (WHO) has said, warning…
Risk of dying from COVID-19 greater for men, unmarried and born in low and middle income countries
Being a man, having a lower income, having a lower level of education, not being married, and being born abroad in low- or middle-income countries…
France’s terrorism risk remains ’extremely high’, says minister
French security authorities are monitoring more than 8,000 people suspected of terrorist leanings, the interior minister says. His warning comes ahead of a trial of…
Antarctica: 60% of ice shelves at risk of fracture, research suggests
Fracture at the front of Ross ice shelf, the largest in Antarctica. A platform of ice nearly four times the size of the UK is…
Childhood packed in a rucksack: young refugees at risk in the Balkans
A group of boys sit on a sunny patch of grass in a park in downtown Belgrade, but they are not here for a picnic….
Euro zone economic outlook steady but job recovery at high risk – Reuters poll
A full bounceback from the euro zone’s deepest recession on record will take two years or more, according to a Reuters poll of economists who…
Study finds link between use of cannabis during pregnancy and risk of autism
Children of mothers who use cannabis during pregnancy appear to be at higher risk of being autistic, according to a study of half a million…
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