With the Shell company having finalized the sale of assets in Nigeria’s Niger Delta, questions remain for those who fought against decades of human rights and environmental abuses in the region: How do you keep Shell accountable for the damage they’ve done? Will divestment be more than a clever PR ploy for big oil and gas?
From a wartime spread of antimicrobial resistant disease in Ukraine, to superbugs in China causing “white lung” pneumonia in children, 2023 brought no shortage of new evidence that antimicrobial resistance (AMR) continues to be a pressing problem globally, and this pattern shows no sign of abating in 2024 unless a radical shift occurs.
As academic lead for the Global Water Academy, York hosted a panel for the UN’s High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development.
Researchers, including those affected by tuberculosis, say a holistic approach is needed to eradicate illness that still kills more than 1.4 million people a year globally and disproportionately affects newcomers and Indigenous communities in Canada TORONTO, March 23, 2023 – While the bacteria that causes tuberculosis (TB) may be millions of years old and the disease was first […]