Post-flood recovery: lessons from Germany and Nigeria on how to help people cope with loss and build resilience: Extreme climate events — floods, droughts and heatwaves — are not just becoming more frequent; they are also more severe. It’s important to understand how communities can recover from these events in ways that also build resilience …
Sudan’s catastrophe: farmers could offer quick post-war recovery, if peace is found: More than a year of conflict between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces has weakened the country’s fragile economy. This is in addition to triggering a humanitarian crisis, loss of lives, property destruction and income disruptions. Even before the current …
Everything Now: eating disorder recovery is treated with sensitivity and nuance in Netflix comedy drama: Netflix couldn’t have chosen a more resonant title than Everything Now for their new comedy drama series. When I came out of a residential clinic in 2009 for treatment of anorexia, I did a parachute jump, started volunteering and decided …
Exercising during a hospital stay linked with faster recovery – new research: As little as 25 minutes of walking a day had benefits. Photo_imagery/ Shutterstock When a person is admitted to hospital for any reason – whether due to illness or to undergo surgery – it’s expected they will spend the duration of their stay …
China’s economic recovery is built on increasingly shaky foundations and that could affect the whole world: People shopping in downtown Shanghai, China. LMspencer/Shutterstock Confidence in China’s post-COVID recovery has started to waver over the past week after the world’s second-largest economy reported disappointing figures for two of the major drivers of its economy: property and …
NHS recovery plan: why an extra £2.6 billion is not enough without more staff: Matthew Troke/Shutterstock The UK government has announced an extra £1 billion of funding to support 800 new ambulances, 100 specialist mental health vehicles and 5,000 more sustainable hospital beds. This sum has been ringfenced for 2023-24 to provide extra capacity and …
New grant will fund The Conversation partnership on critical research into COVID recovery, net zero, cities and levelling up and inequality: Shutterstock The world has changed in manifold ways since the height of the pandemic – and research evidence can help governments respond to them. In the last few years, homeworking has become the new …
War is stopping Ukraine from paying its debts — here’s how international powers can continue to support its recovery: Ukraine is burning through money fast. The invasion by Russia has been costly for the country. According to the International Monetary Fund, Ukraine’s GDP could shrink by 35% as a result of the war. The country’s …
Triple punch of shocks threatens to upend debt sustainability and recovery in Africa: Children queue for porridge in Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe during the height of the COVID pandemic. Photo by Tafadzwa Ufumeli/Getty Images Food and fuel price increases and the aftermath of the COVID pandemic are really just the start of the story …
The inside story of Recovery: how the world’s largest COVID-19 trial transformed treatment – and what it could do for other diseases: Recovery team members Mark Campbell, Guilherme Pessoa-Amorim and Leon Peto photographed at the Big Data Institute in Oxford Photograph: Adam Gasson/UKRI, CC BY-SA Guilherme – June 16, 2020. Evening TV news shows across …
Shortage of workers threatens UK recovery – here’s why and what to do about it: For the first time since records began, there are more job vacancies in the UK than unemployed people, according to the latest monthly labour market figures. This has been driven mainly by a near-fourfold surge in job vacancies to around …
How I use the Bacula GUI for backup and recovery: How I use the Bacula GUI for backup and recovery Rob Morrison Tue, 05/03/2022 – 03:00 1 reader likes this 1 reader likes this Today, when best practices for backup and recovery are more important than ever before, it’s good to know that high-end fully …
From ‘biologically dead’ to chart-toppingly clean: how the Thames made an extraordinary recovery over 60 years: The Thames is one of the world's cleanest city rivers. JPLenio/Pixabay It might surprise you to know that the River Thames is considered one of the world’s cleanest rivers running through a city. What’s even more surprising is that …
Disabled people are being left out of COVID recovery. Here are five ways to change that: Marmolejos / Shutterstock After two years of the pandemic, there is an understandable desire to “go back to normal”. Disabled people, having been particularly impacted by the pandemic, have described the removal of all COVID rules as a “kick …
South Africa could achieve economic recovery, and lower emissions. Here’s how: The reduction of environmental pollution has offered countries the opportunity to start from a position of reduced pollution. Photo by Wikus de Wet/AFP via Getty Images Measures adopted to control the spread of the COVID pandemic resulted in a worldwide reduction in economic activities. …
COVID: five things the UK must prioritise in its pandemic recovery plan: On the second anniversary of Britain first going into lockdown, and with the country now opening up, this is a good opportunity to make sense of what happened in the pandemic, what it meant, and what needs to be done next. Some of …
Groundwater could help kickstart green recovery in African countries: how to begin: Knowledge about groundwater is scarce in some countries, and most development is informal and limited to shallow use. Torsten Pursche via shutterstock African leaders have joined a worldwide thrust for a “green recovery” from the COVID-19 setback and the climate crisis. As the …
New COVID data: South Africa has arrived at the recovery stage of the pandemic: People wait to be vaccinated against COVID-19. Luca Sola/AFP via Getty Images A recently published South African study set out to determine sero-positivity against SARS-CoV-2 before the fourth wave of COVID-19, in which the omicron variant was dominant. Sero-positivity measures the …