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Displaying 15 of about 648 resultsIn the past months, REACH teams around the world have provided mounting evidence highlighting major trends linked to the COVID-19 pandemic that have a negative impact on the situation of populations living in crisis-affected countries. In particular, evidence pouring in from various market monitoring and analysis assessments showed the extent to wh…
Latin America is scrambling to contain surging COVID-19 infections while confronting near-certain recession and related impacts, but polices that prioritize poor and vulnerable people can help mitigate the region’s already extreme poverty and inequality, a new UNDP study finds.
Before the pandemic, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) projec…
By James Aylward and Luiz E. Oliveira
Risk from natural disasters is a key economic effect of climate change. Wildfires are particularly important for the western states in the the USA.
Assessing the role of climate change in extreme weather and natural disasters has become increasingly important as the economic toll from such events has grown in rece…
By Diya Rijal
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If that happens, the pandemic peak in Nepal could coincide with the monsoon peak which brings with it an increased risk of landslides and floods. This year, unusually heavy early monsoon rains have already triggered landslides across the mid-mountains, causing at least 36 deaths.
The Department of Hydrology and Meteorol…
Haiti is well acquainted with challenge. In any given year, a typical Haitian household will face multiple shocks—which may include hurricanes, floods, disease, death, unemployment or any combination thereof.
For Haitians, some might say that COVID-19 is only the latest thing. But it is a critical thing.
Even before the pandemic, almos…
In their efforts to stave off a second wave of COVID-19, scientists from around the world have turned to a new ally: sewage.
In the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Spain, researchers are poring over samples of wastewater for signs of the coronavirus, which is believed to be shed in human feces.
Given that many people with the virus are asymptomati…
New Atlanticist by Larry Luxner
Since its emergence barely half a year ago, COVID-19 has infected more than 8.5 million people globally, and has killed at least 452,000. The pandemic---along with climate change---leaves the planet facing "perhaps its worst humanitarian crisis since World War II."
Yet the international community is woefully unprepared…
In Rafiq Nagar, a low-income neighbourhood in Mumbai, India, COVID-19 is an addition to the existing public health issues that are already faced by its residents. Shamimbanu Salim Sheikh shares her neighbourhood’s predicament. This is the fifth story in the series of ‘Voices from the Frontline’ by ICCCAD and CDKN.
“If you ever come here, you will…
By Dr Guy Schumann
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However, during these devastating times, it is obvious that not only most resources of national governments and international organisations are directed towards battling COVID-19, but also the mainstream media are focusing the global populations attention on the Coronavirus crisis. Unfortunately, this is happening clearly at t…
By Elena Delavega
Mexico City is a dust bowl, a polluted megalopolis where breathing is hard and newly washed clothes hung out to dry turn stiff by evening. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic began clobbering this capital city, residents regularly wore face masks during the frequent air quality emergencies there.
Now Mexico City’s b…
As Cyclone Amphan churned in the Bay of Bengal, some 2.4 million people were moved to safety in Bangladesh.
Bangladesh accomplished this mass evacuation in May 2020 amid the COVID-19 pandemic. An additional 10,500 shelters beyond the 4,171 already in existence were needed to avoid conditions that would spread the virus.
“Such a large mobiliz…
By Maudlyne Ihejirika
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As temperatures shot up to a frightening 106 degrees on July 13, 1995 — and remained stuck in high double digits for five days — bodies began to pile up at the office of Cook County Medical Examiner, Dr. Edmund Donoghue. By the time it was over, some 739 poor and elderly Chicagoans — mostly people of color — had died.
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By Neha Rai and Ritu Bharadwaj
For countries already grappling with the impacts of climate change, the COVID-19 pandemic has shown how global shocks and stresses can conspire to further derail decades of development. Now, more than ever, money from key funders such as the Green Climate Fund (GCF) must reach vulnerable communities in these countries; no…
By Maanvi Singh
Wildfires are searing through California and states in the US south-west, as the region braces for an intense fire season complicated by the coronavirus pandemic. With 2020 on track to be one of the hottest and driest years on record, the National Interagency Fire Center is warning of a higher potential for fires acr…
The World Health Organization (WHO), the UN’s health agency, has played a crucial role in tackling the COVID-19 pandemic, ever since the first cases were identified in the Chinese city of Wuhan in December. At a press conference on Wednesday, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, outlined five ways the agency is leading the global response.
1) Helping…