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Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain At least 237,000 people died in organized violence in 2022. A new report from Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP) at Uppsala University shows that this is a 97% increase over the previous year, and the highest number since the Rwandan genocide in 1994. The results will be published in the July…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A Monash University study has found systematic racism within Australia's justice system is linked to 151 Indigenous women's deaths, prompting calls for greater accountability of authorities in responding to domestic and family violence. The article, Indigenous women and intimate partner homicide in…

By our calculations, that is the number of extra deaths Britain has suffered, compared with similar countries such as France and Denmark. The reason is that, in the early 2010s, life expectancy stalled in Britain compared with long-run trends and other countries. This slowdown in life expectancy struck all age groups, not just the elderly. And it disproportionately affected the poor. If you travel just 10km (six miles) from the poshest part of Kensington in London to New Cross Gate, life expectancy for men…

This story originally appeared on Hakai and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.Dead fish were everywhere, speckling the beach near town and extending onto the surrounding coastline. The sheer magnitude of the October 2021 die-off, when hundreds, possibly thousands, of herring washed up, is what sticks in the minds of the residents of Kotzebue, Alaska. Fish were “literally all over the beaches,” says Bob Schaeffer, a fisherman and elder from the Qikiqtaġruŋmiut tribe.Despite the dramatic deaths, there was no…

COVID-19 is no longer classed as a global health emergency by the World Health Organization, but scientists are still working hard to understand more about the virus and its impact – including how the coronavirus affects the body and leads to death.A new analysis suggests that a high percentage of people who required help from a ventilator due to a COVID-19 infection also developed secondary bacterial pneumonia. This pneumonia was responsible for a higher mortality rate than the COVID-19 infection.So while COVID-19 may…

Just because a fuel source may emit less CO2 when it’s used doesn’t mean that there aren’t adverse impacts along its entire life cycle. Air pollution from the production of fossil fuels is responsible for $77 billion in health damages across the U.S. and causes tens of thousands of adverse health impacts each year, a new study published Monday in Environmental Research: Health has found.Making Paint Cool in the Face of HeatBefore the intense fracking boom of the 2010s, natural gas enjoyed a reputation as a “bridge fuel”:…

The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared an end to the emergency phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. The agency’s director-general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said at a press conference on Friday in Geneva that WHO’s emergency committee had met the previous day and recommended ending the Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC), the highest alert level WHO can declare, which has been in effect since 30 January 2020.  “It’s therefore with…

Melbourne’s Monash University has commenced a Phase 1 clinical trial to test a novel inhaled powder designed to prevent postpartum hemorrhage, a serious complication of childbirth that causes tens of thousands of deaths worldwide.Postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) or excessive bleeding after birth affects around 14 million women annually, resulting in about 70,000 deaths globally. PPH particularly affects women in low- and middle-income countries.The Inhaled Oxytocin Project was started to develop an inhalable form of the…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain On March 29, two families of four died while attempting to cross the St. Lawrence River from Canada to the U.S. Their bodies were found in Akwesasne Mohawk territory which straddles the Canada-United States border. Media coverage quickly began to frame the fatal incident as an issue of illegal…

A chart from Tracking (In)Justice showing the number of police-involved deaths when force was used per year between 2000-2022. Credit: Tracking (In)Justice, Author provided Fatal encounters with police are on the rise in Canada. The number of civilians dying in incidents with police when force is used has steadily increased since 2000. This is leaving families and communities with little support or recourse for accountability.…