Over two billion people lack secure access to drinking water, according to the UN. Now the organization is warning that the goal of everyone on earth having access to drinking water is "increasingly out of reach".
WorldThe use of e-cigarettes – to vape – is increasing in the world. Now, researchers have mapped the risks that the electronic cigarettes entail. The study shows that young vapers run a great risk of falling into new addictions.
SwedenGiant fires on the Iberian Peninsula are causing enormous particle emissions that have deteriorated the air quality on the Iberian Peninsula, according to the EU's earth observation program Copernicus.
SwedenBombings, hunger and a healthcare in crisis. In the wake of the extreme situation in Gaza, another deadly crisis risks worsening the situation for the population further – in the form of multiresistant bacteria, according to a new study.
ConflictsForeign ministers from more than 20 countries, including Sweden, have signed a statement on the humanitarian situation in Gaza.
Swedish politicsIn the EU country Romania, measles cases have skyrocketed. The pandemic and fear have made many children not vaccinated against the extremely contagious disease. I have heard that the vaccine is dangerous, says a mother.
WorldA total of 100 children have died as a result of starvation and malnutrition in war-torn Gaza, according to health authorities in the Hamas-controlled area.
ConflictsThe Swedish doctor Märit Halmin has been on a mission in war zones in Afghanistan, Yemen, Syria and Cameroon. Yet it was a shock to come to Gaza this summer. The magnitude of the civilian population's suffering, the number of injured, the resource shortage one works under – I have never witnessed anything like it before, she says.
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