As part of the Rise for Climate rally last Saturday, thousands of activists gathered in over 100 countries for a march. Their objective: to challenge politicians to take radical decisions.
Archive for September 2018
The European Commission requires all clinical trials results are posted on the EU Clinical Trials Register (EUCTR) within 12 months of completion and within six months for trials involving children,
“A critical flaw” in EU climate policy: renewable energy directive poised to promote global deforestation
A paper published on 12 September in Nature Communications, co-authored by several academics from the US and Europe, has slammed Europe’s latest climate law which will count energy created from
To defeat the so-called superbugs, an entirely new class of antibiotic is needed but for more than 50 years, no new effective antibiotics have been developed. Now, scientists may have
There is now scientific consensus that pesticides cause cancer among farmers. This conclusion has been confirmed by the courts insofar as one type of cancer, non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, has been classified
A study published on 10 September in Nature Ecology & Evolution has brought to light the current threat aquaculture farmers are facing owing to climate change and highlights the need
On September 8, The Ocean Cleanup, a nonprofit based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands founded by 24-year-old Boyan Slat and funded by a number of tech investors, including Peter Thiel and
In a new study, published on 10 September in Nature, a scientific journal, researchers from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Germany and the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Austria
Switching from a meat-rich diet to fish and veg could reduce your “water footprint”, according to a European report
Eating a healthy diet could help save precious water resources, according to a new study published in Nature Sustainability on 10 September — by eating a healthy diet water consumption
A new study published in Science, a scientific journal, on 7 September suggests installing massive wind and solar installations in the Sahara Desert could increase local rainfall, particularly in the