Check out the latest news from the New Zealand Youth Delegation (NZYD), NZYD is a group of twelve passionate young people engaging with New Zealand’s youth on climate change issues and bringing a youthful perspective to the international climate negotiations in Cancun, Mexico in November this year (COP16).For more information [...]

Poor sanitary conditions after January’s earthquake have made the people of Haiti vulnerable to cholera, which is caused by bacteria transmitted through contaminated water or food.The number of people known to have died from a cholera epidemic in Haiti has increased markedly. Health officials say 105 more people have died since Saturday, bringing the [...]

Ecosystem degradation and biodiversity loss entail huge costs which society simply cannot afford, a new report has claimed.

Survivors of the recent flooding in Pakistan are now facing a new threat. Experts fear a massive outbreak of malaria in the coming months could affect more than two million people.Check out this video report by Al Jazeera’s Sohail Rahman.

Polio is now a distant nightmare in the west. But in four remaining polio-endemic countries – India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nigeria – it continues to maim and kill.Three of these – India, Pakistan and Nigeria – were proudly present at the Commonwealth parade. Nothing can be more antithetical to an event that [...]