|
|
Editor's note
|
A summit is under way in Nairobi that aims to get commitments to speed up progress on women’s health across the continent. The main areas that need attention include reducing maternal deaths, making sure women have access to family planning and protecting them from gender-based violence. There will be a strong drive to get governments to commit funds. But, as Alex Ezeh explains, raising money is just part of what’s needed. Commitment to take action is also a prerequisite to making serious advances.
From Sydney, Rachel Badlan helps us understand the verocity of the fires sweeping across Australia’s New South Wales.
|
Ina Skosana
Health + Medicine Editor
|
|
|
Top story
|
Women and girls in Gayo village, Ehtiopia collect water from a rain water pool which is purified with tablets before use.
Shutterstock
Alex Ezeh, Drexel University
The aim is to reduce maternal deaths, address the unmet need for family planning and end gender-based violence by 2030.
|
A firestorm on Mirror Plateaun Yellowstone Park, 1988.
Jim Peaco/US National Park Service
Rachel Badlan, UNSW
Large, intense bushfires can pump so much heat into the atmosphere they form their own thunderstorm system. And that can make the weather on the ground even more dangerously unpredictable.
|
Politics + Society
|
Kate Pincock, University of Oxford
Tanzania's government must focus on the drivers of teenage pregnancy, which are entirely overlooked in current punitive policies, instead of expelling and arresting schoolgirls.
| |
Sean Molloy, Newcastle University; Conall Mallory, Newcastle University
A new study examined what the UK priorities – and sidelines – at the UN Human Rights Council.
|
|
|
Energy + Environment
|
Alex Farnsworth, University of Bristol
Scientists have reconstructed the monsoon over 145m years – and found it predates the Himalayas.
| |
Henrik Selin, Boston University
President Trump has confirmed that the US will leave the Paris Agreement on climate change on the earliest allowable date: Nov. 4, 2020. Will this hobble efforts to slow global warming?
|
Louise Slater, University of Oxford; Abdou Khouakhi, Loughborough University; Robert Wilby, Loughborough University
In failing to acknowledge that the capacity of rivers can change quickly, some flood models and defences may not be equipped to deal with the consequences when they do.
| |
Kate Winter, Northumbria University, Newcastle
Living sustainably has its challenges, but none greater than in the climate and geography of Antarctica.
|
|
|
Health + Medicine
|
Gerry Wright, McMaster University
A new report estimates that by 2050, 40 per cent of all infections will be resistant to antimicrobial treatment. This will directly cause 13,700 previously preventable deaths.
| |
Caitlin Notley, University of East Anglia
Governments around the world are banning e-cigarettes. This is very bad news for public health.
|
|
|
En français
|
Speranta Dumitru, Université Paris Descartes
La France est la championne européenne des obligations à quitter le territoire et les vingt mesures annoncées par le gouvernement n’y feront rien.
| |
Oihab Allal-Chérif, Neoma Business School
Disney rejoint les GAFA et les anciens groupes audiovisuels qui mettent tout en œuvre pour séduire les abonnés de Netflix, l’ennemi public numéro 1 dans le monde du streaming.
|
|
|
En español
|
Antonio Manuel Rodríguez Ramos, Universidad de Córdoba
Los premios más importantes de la música latina han suprimido la categoría de "Mejor álbum de Flamenco" en este 2019 por no alcanzar el número mínimo de trabajos presentados.
| |
Beatriz Urbano, Universidad de Valladolid
El proyecto CityZen de la UE promueve políticas locales que apoyen nuevos modelos de negocio de agricultura urbana, mejoras para los productores locales y cadenas de valor innovadoras.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|