May 5th is the International Day of the Midwife. This year’s theme, “Midwives: A Vital Climate Solution,” acknowledges the role that midwives play by delivering environmentally sustainable ...
https://www.newsecuritybeat.org/2024/05/qampa-midwives-as-a-vital-climate-solution/
Back in 2020, Shiyang Li at Rare visited restaurants across China to interview over 30 different owners and staff about the attitudes, beliefs, and everyday behaviors that contribute to food wast...
https://www.newsecuritybeat.org/2024/05/tackling-food-waste-in-chinas-restaurants/
“I’m only 33 years old. I have my entire life to live, and I would like to retire on a habitable planet.” | Zulfiya Suleimenova Signs of our warming planet reveal themselves through the sma...
https://www.newsecuritybeat.org/2024/04/can-kazakhstan-meet-its-climate-goals/
As the world becomes increasingly interconnected through travel, communication, and information, interdisciplinary approaches to address global and reproductive health issues are crucial. And as ...
https://www.newsecuritybeat.org/2024/04/an-essential-handbook-for-reproductive-global-health/
The contentious and ambiguous entanglement that military forces have with their natural environment inevitably sparkles public interest and academic research. So how does the existing scholarly w...
In March 2019, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and China’s National Forestry and Grassland Administration co-hosted two workshops on reducing wildlife trafficking in Kenya and Botswana. T...
Climate change’s potential to aggravate insecurity, particularly through violent conflict, has created a fear that is both widespread and justified. Civil and defense ministries around the worl...
The International Day of the Elimination of Racial Discrimination on March 21 offers a significant opportunity to reflect on a key issue in maternal health: despite global progress over the past ...
Este ensayo se actualizó con una traducción al español, disponible después de la versión en inglés, a continuación. Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries have committed to transitio...
Maternal mortality continues to be one of the scourges in global health. The fact that women die as part of bringing life is an indictment against the overall status of women around the world, an...
Iran’s southeastern province of Khuzestan—which borders Iraq—was already a dry and dangerous place. It was the site of the fiercest battles in the Iraq-Iran war which followed the Iranian R...
On April 18, 2016, I was on the train with my Friends of Nature (FON) colleagues for a work trip when a shocking piece of news erupted on social media: hundreds of students in Jiangsu Province fe...
https://www.newsecuritybeat.org/2024/03/who-should-pay-for-soil-contamination-in-china/
When Russia launched its brutal invasion of Ukraine on February 22, 2024, Western nations supported Ukraine with military and financial aid. But over two years, the cost of the war has been devas...
https://www.newsecuritybeat.org/2024/03/clearing-war-debris-can-help-ukraine-move-forward/
This article, by Sharon Guynup, originally appeared on Mongabay. Walruses have traversed the Arctic for millennia, gregarious pinnipeds that rest en masse on drifting pack ice, diving to feed on...
High in the remote mountains of western Fujian Province, Changkou—part of Sanming Prefectural City—became the first village to launch a new forestry carbon ticket system in May 2021. Changkou...