State of the world's nursing 2025
<p>Central to the achievement of the Agenda for Sustainable Development is an adequate, equitably distributed and fully supported health workforce. Nurses are the largest occupational group and represent
Africa
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Questionable move
The World Bank (wb) has cleared the construction of a 1,045-kilometre oil pipeline from Chad in central Africa to Cameroon's Atlantic coast. The move flies in the face of environmental concerns
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Tanzania
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Flamingone
At least 50,000 flamingos died in the East African region between 1993 and 1995, largely due to pollution, reports Panafrican News Agency. A number of metals have found their way into Lake Nakuru,
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Fixing responsibility
in a historic deal brokered by a British court, building materials firm Cape Plc has agreed to conditionally pay us $30 million to South African miners who blame the company for contracting
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No x ious ways?
Pollution from Africa and Indonesia reaches Indian Ocean region in monsoon transition periods
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The little green data book 2009
The Little Green Data Book 2009 points to the world
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Playing safe
Nations finally draft a treaty to combat the use of toxic chemicals like DDT and PCBs, which are known for their damning health effects
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SNIPPETS
• China refuted a recent US National Academy of Sciences report, which notes that a new strain of the H5N1 bird flu virus has emerged in southern China. • Argentine President Nestor
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Killing dust
African dust clouds cause red tides that kill millions of fish in the Gulf of Mexico
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Peck and die
Bacteria kill Africa s flamingos