A recent study has revealed an increase in violence against women and children resulting from the conflict in Yemen. Research by the Sana’a Center for Strategic Studies shows women and …
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Measles Outbreaks Make 2019 a Record-Setting Year
The year 2019 saw a totally preventable disease claim the lives of more than 140,000 people, mostly children and babies. It happened as unvaccinated children created a pathway for measles …
your ads here!China Investigates Respiratory Illness Outbreak Sickening 27
Chinese experts are investigating an outbreak of respiratory illness in the central city of Wuhan that some have likened to the 2002-2003 SARS epidemic.The city’s health commission said in a …
your ads here!Germany’s Merkel Urges Climate Action in New Year Message
Chancellor Angela Merkel is telling Germans in her New Year message that “everything humanly possible” must be done to tackle climate change.Merkel said that there is good reason to be …
your ads here!Scores of Robotic Researchers Set to Explore Red Planet in 2020
The first space race pitted the United States against what was then the Soviet Union for the bragging rights of being first in space travel. The space race of the …
your ads here!Plus-Size Yoga Teacher Breaks Stereotypes, Boundaries
There’s no doubt that many people around the world see – in magazines and on social media – unrealistic beauty standards and end up feeling unhappy with how they look. …
your ads here!Children in Conflict Pay a Deadly Price
The U.N. Children’s Fund (UNICEF) says verified attacks on children in conflict have risen threefold since 2010, making the past decade particularly deadly for children. As the decade draws to …
your ads here!2019 Was Hottest Year on Record for Russia
This year was the hottest ever registered in Russia, the country’s weather chief said on Monday, as climate change pushes global temperatures to record highs.”This year in Russia was the …
your ads here!Monitoring Agency: DRC Ebola Death Toll 2,231 to Date
A total of 2,231 people have died out of 3,373 declared cases of Ebola in the current epidemic in the DR Congo, according to the agency overseeing the response, health …
your ads here!Politics of Climate Change Got More Complicated in 2019
2019 was the year of Greta Thunberg, Extinction Rebellion and an uptick in climate action pledges by governments across the globe. From Britain to Germany, Europe’s mainstream party leaders …
your ads here!Dangerous Levels of Antibiotics Found in World’s Rivers
The rivers of the world are full of antibiotics. That’s the headline of a new survey that sampled rivers all over the world. VOA’s Kevin Enochs reports. …
your ads here!Satellites Monitoring Air Health
One of the ways astronomers learn about planets beyond Earth is by studying our own. And there are satellites doing just that, monitoring the Earth’s health, and our own. VOA’s …
your ads here!Smithsonian Museum Wows with Fossils Going Back Billions of Years
A remarkable fossils exhibition opens at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington on Saturday. Located in the newly restored fossil hall, it contains over 700 fossils, including …
your ads here!Smithsonian Museum Wows With Fossils Going Back Billions of Years
It was a bad day 70 million years ago for a triceratops dinosaur, whose remains are displayed beneath a fossilized Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton — posed as if it were still …
your ads here!Scientists Feel Chill of Crackdown on Fetal Tissue Research
To save babies from brain-damaging birth defects, University of Pittsburgh scientist Carolyn Coyne studies placentas from fetuses that otherwise would be discarded — and she’s worried this kind of research …
your ads here!NASA: Space Travel for Private Citizens Is Coming
Space travel for private citizens is no longer science fiction. NASA is opening parts of the International Space Station to more commercial opportunities. NASA announced the plan Friday, and said …
your ads here!Trump Criticizes NASA Moon Mission After Promoting It Earlier
U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday criticized NASA for aiming to put astronauts back on the moon by 2024 and urged the space agency to focus instead on “much bigger” initiatives like going …
your ads here!How Communities Can Survive Floods, Major Storms, Wildfires
The 2019 Atlantic hurricane season is officially underway, yet many people haven’t recovered from some of last year’s storms. Meantime, tornados have torn up swaths of several U.S. states in …
your ads here!Floods, Major Storms, Wildfires Take Psychological Toll on Survivors
The 2019 Atlantic hurricane season is officially underway, yet people haven’t recovered from some of last year’s storms. Meantime, tornados have torn up swaths of several U.S. states in the …
your ads here!Seaweed Could Help Produce Biodegradable Plastic
Efforts to recycle discarded plastic have not reduced piles of single-use products from landfills, and China will no longer import plastic waste for recycling. The United Nations says more than …
your ads here!WHO: 1 Million STD Cases Diagnosed Every Day
More than 1 million people across the world are diagnosed with sexually transmitted infections (STI) every day, the World Health Organization said. In a study released Thursday, the U.N. health …
your ads here!NASA: Just Binoculars Needed to See Jupiter’s Largest Moons
Keep an eye on the sky this month as the mighty Jupiter puts on a show. NASA says Jupiter will make its closest approach to Earth in June — so …
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