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
Global
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A cloning dilemma
A decision to clone human beings raises questions on the safety and ethics of such projects
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Saving the sturgeon
the sturgeon population is fast declining due to poaching, illegal trade, habitat loss, dam constructions, pollution, damaging aquaculture practices, lack of regional cooperation in conservation
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Squaring off
the infrastructure for coordinating research about various worldwide environmental changes must be restructured for taking correct decisions on issues such as greenhouse gas emission policies.
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Battling climate change
Technologies exist to arrest global warming. But the political will to implement them is missing
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Foot in mouth disease
Only a sea change in farming techniques will help save the European agricultural sector from disasters like the foot and mouth disease
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Forest talk
An international forum on forests promises to bring in real change
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Boiling point
Greenhouse gas emissions could raise global temperatures much more than previously forecast leading to drought and flooding as weather patterns shift and polar ice melts
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Dirty and thirsty
Anybody can tell you they are essential for a decent way of life: safe drinking water and sanitation. Since the 1980s governments have made drinking water available to more and more people across the
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Sweat and shiver
A review of climate studies projects what s in store: colder winters, hotter summers, drought, storms and lots worse
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Wait and watch
The <font class='UCASE'>us</font> government is in transition. But why should the rest of the world suffer?