World leaders, until recently, have shuffled their feet in taking action to try to halt greenhouse gas emissions causing rapidly rising temperatures. Several projections from the IPCC show that the Earth will warm 1.5 degrees Celsius between the year 2030 and 2050. This increased level in warming has grave consequences for many countries around the world. Several island countries face […]

The next pandemic is not a matter of if but instead a matter of when. The current COVID-19 pandemic has been described by most as a “once-in-a-lifetime” or a “once-in-a-century” event. However, a recent August 2021 study shows that that may not be the case. COVID-19 is not the only epidemiological event we’ve seen in the last decade or so; […]