More young lives lost in Ukraine, as UN chief repeats call for a ‘just, comprehensive and sustainable peace’

mennessä CrNet Oy | elo 19, 2025 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development

Russian drone strikes on Ukraine overnight including in the cities of Kharkiv and Zaporizhzhia reportedly killed at least 14 people – including three children. The development came as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and a group of European leaders arrived in...

From Waste to Worth: Fashion’s Opportunity to Reclaim up to $150 Billion in Lost Textile Value a Year

mennessä CrNet Oy | elo 19, 2025 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development, Yleinen

The world is producing clothes and other textiles at an unprecedented rate—and discarding them just as fast. In 2024, global textile waste reached 120 million metric tons, with 80% ending up in landfills or incinerated. By comparison, only 12% of the total was reused,...

Statement by Commissioner Lahbib on the 2025 World Humanitarian

mennessä CrNet Oy | elo 19, 2025 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development, Yleinen

“The EU is one of the world’s largest humanitarian aid donors, working to save millions of lives in crisis situations globally. Yet at a time when humanitarian needs are reaching new heights, respect for International Humanitarian Law (IHL) is under threat....

Scientists Hack Microbes to Identify Environmental Sources of Methane

mennessä CrNet Oy | elo 19, 2025 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development, Yleinen

UC Berkeley researchers tweaked a key enzyme involved in microbial methane production to understand the unique fingerprints of different environments on Earth that generate the greenhouse gas. Roughly two-thirds of all emissions of atmospheric methane — a highly...

In a Warming Atlantic, Hurricanes Increasingly Arrive in Groups

mennessä CrNet Oy | elo 18, 2025 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development, Yleinen

As ocean waters heat up, the Atlantic is increasingly seeing not just one, but two or more hurricanes spin up at the same time. That is the finding of a new study, which warns that warming is raising the risk that coastal cities may be battered by back-to-back storms....

‘Humanitarian work, a moral obligation’: Retired doctor returns to face the ‘silent threat’ in Gaza

mennessä CrNet Oy | elo 15, 2025 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development

Dr. Younis Awadallah, a paediatrician who is almost 70 years old, does not hesitate to say that “humanitarian work cannot be retired.” After a successful career that lasted 43 years, during which he worked in Saudi Arabia, for the Palestinian Ministry of Health and...