News tagged with climate shift

Malnutrition 'puts 450 million children at risk of stunting'

About 450 million children will be physically and mentally stunted over the next 15 years unless the world takes action to tackle malnutrition, a new report from Save the Children warned Wednesday.

Health Feb 15, 2012 | not rated yet | 0

Climate to widen sleeping sickness risk to southern Africa

Sleeping sickness could threaten tens of millions more people as the tsetse fly which transmits the disease spreads to southern Africa as a result of global warming, a study published on Wednesday says.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Nov 09, 2011 | not rated yet | 0