Health
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Environment
Environment United KingdomHere’s to Cleaner Air and Better Health, with This Low-Traffic Neighborhood Plan
Birmingham is working on a plan to curb pollution and emissions, combat poor health, and reduce congestion: the UK's second largest city aims to ensure low traffic with initiatives to close roads, remove parking spaces, introduce new zero-emission buses and create more cycleways.
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Environment
Environment IndonesiaThe Right to Health: “We Must Improve Air Quality” Orders Capital City
A court in Jakarta ruled that the Indonesian government has failed to protect citizens’ rights to clean air, ordering them to take action. The city is home to ten million people, with some thirty million more living in its suburbs.
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Society
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Society
Society USAPay for Food and Healthcare with Virtual Cash? Why Not, Say Seven Towns
Seven regions around the world have adopted some form of cryptocurrency for everything from paying taxes to spending on essentials, and even for sending and receiving money abroad - showing us all the myriad of uses digital currency has.
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Society
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Technology
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Health
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Technology
Technology The WorldScientists Uncover the Last Missing Parts of Our DNA!
For the very first time, an open and community-based consortium of scientists managed to sequence the entire human genome, including the 8% of DNA missing from the two first attempts, finally giving us the complete set of human genetics.
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Technology
Technology USAInvestors’ Latest Interest: Women’s Healthcare!
Female-focused healthcare such as innovative fertility or period products has often been neglected, but investors are stepping in to boost startups focused on female technology - or "femtech" - in order to tackle health inequities and ensure women’s all-around well-being.
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Society
