健康与医疗系统
How long until you retire? Across Europe, people’s working life is getting shorter
In Europe, people are living longer but spending fewer years working.
Recoded to Forum Agenda on 29/05/2024.
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气候行动
What’s the difference between 1.5 and 2 degrees of global warming?
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气候行动
Producing sustainable building materials from volcanic ash and rocks
When a volcano erupts, people living nearby face the threat of damage to property, loss of life and even the destruction of entire towns. Now, researchers from the Italian city of Catania...
艺术与文化
Action! How movies are helping young people fight climate change and other global challenges
At the 74th Festival de Cannes, the leading lights of the global movie industry tentatively gathered together to award prizes for outstanding work and to view new releases.
健康与医疗系统
Why the world needs to rethink primary healthcare after the pandemic
It is more than 40 years since a global declaration on primary healthcare (PHC) called for world governments to take urgent action. Since then, according to the World Bank there has been ...
健康与医疗系统
The pandemic has damaged youth employment: Here’s how we can help
Around the world in 2020, youth employment dropped by 8.7%. For adults the fall in employment was less severe, registering at 3.7%. This difference illustrates the extent of the pandemic’...
新兴技术
5 ways AI is doing good in the world right now
In the wake of the pandemic, a growing number of businesses are speeding up plans to adopt AI and automation, according to the World Economic Forum’s Future of Jobs Report 2020.
健康与医疗系统
COVID-19 is threatening the SDGs – here’s what needs to happen
The global death toll from COVID-19 passed the tragic milestone of 4 million in July 2021.
教育与技能
Ontario is modernizing its maths curriculum to emphasize coding skills and personal finance
School students in the Canadian province of Ontario will soon be learning financial literacy as part of their regular curriculum.
健康与医疗系统
How will behaviour change after COVID vaccination? New survey reveals post-pandemic trends
Around the world, more than 3 billion doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been administered and some countries have made significant progress toward vaccinating the majority of their popul...
自然与生物多样性
Growing a new coral reef in a fraction of the time with a fragment of the coral
The world’s coral reefs are in trouble. Over the next 20 years, they are expected to decline by as much as 90% due to harm caused through the warming of the ocean. It is possible to regro...
A hidden population of endangered whales has just been discovered - by nuclear bomb detectors
Pygmy blue whales might be the smallest members of the blue whale family, but at 24 metres long they are still some of the largest creatures in the ocean. Now a previously unknown populat...
深度地理
The affordable 3D-printed home that could transform African urbanization
There is a housing crisis taking place across many parts of Africa. Nigeria alone has an estimated shortfall of 17 million housing units. Part of the problem is that every day around 40,0...
循环经济
Majority of consumers willing to pay more for goods which use scarce natural resources - Ipsos survey
A growing number of people are willing to pay extra for the things they buy, if it helps protect the planet’s scarce natural resources.
气候行动
What is the North American heat dome and how dangerous is it?
Huge tracts of North America are sweltering under very high temperatures, which are close to 50ºC in some places. The phenomenon behind this weather is known as a heat dome and the one th...