The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has warned that South Asian economies face a 8.8% loss in their annual gross domestic product (GDP) by 2100, because of...
A new strain of malaria, resistant to drug treatments, has already spread through south-east Asia and has now reached the Cambodia-Thailand border, causing panic at the...
The mosquito is by some way the deadliest animal in the world. In terms of the number of human victims they claim each year nothing comes...
A new study published in the Nature Communications journal has found that when scientists injected a DNA cutting enzyme into mosquitoes they produced 95% male offspring,...
Tuesday’s Google doodle commemorates the birth of Rachel Carson, the prominent biologist whose 1962 book Silent Spring, which revealed the deadly effects of pesticides, is a...
A group of children from Tanzania immune to malaria are helping US researchers in their attempts to find life saving treatments for the disease. The researchers...
The sustainable bank Triodos has partnered with natural insect repellent manufacturer Incognito for an Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) offer that could deliver healthy returns, offer tax...
The risk of dengue fever spreading across Europe is now imminent because of rising temperatures caused by climate change, scientists have warned. Dengue fever is a...
Rising temperatures caused by climate change could allow malaria to spread to new regions, threatening millions of lives, scientists have warned. According to the World Health...
Levels of the pesticide DDT in patients with Alzheimer’s have been found to be four times higher compared to healthy people, suggesting a possible link between...
Microsoft founder and distinguished philanthropist Bill Gates has outlined a range of important development achievements for 2013, such as the reduction of child deaths, poverty and...
Some 700 million children around the world live in the 10 areas most at threat from global warming, according to the charity UNICEF. Meanwhile, almost two-thirds...
Philanthropists need to be more daring and less afraid of failure, according to a leading economist. In a lecture at Al Bateen Palace in Abu Dhabi,...