COVID-19 highlights the need for clean water
Even before COVID-19 struck, the United Nations already warned against the decreasing supply for clean water. At least 2 billion...
Societal Impact
Factory farms are breeding grounds for pandemics
The following article from The Guardian shows us that our individual choices have an impact on health and the overall wellbeing of...
What’s next after the coronavirus?
In this article for Global Research, Peter Koenig explores how the world can change after the coronavirus pandemic. As the...
The hidden danger of lockdowns: Indoor air pollution
As lockdowns were imposed in countries around the world, news of improved environmental conditions started flooding social media feeds. In...
Separating science from politics and fear-mongering
In this commentary article for CNS News, Jeffrey Mc Call, professor of communication at DePauw University talks about how science has...
3.9 million Filipino workers might lose jobs
In this article for The Manila Times, author William Depasupil says that 78% of businesses affected by COVID-19 will remain closed...
World Bank: Pandemic could push 60M into extreme poverty
In this May 21, 2020 report written for the Agence France-Presse, the World Bank said that 60M people around the world...
UNDP: Human development to decline this year for the first time since 1990
In this report published by the United Nations Development Program Administrator Achim Steiner expressed concern for the decline in the...
NEDA: Societal impacts of lockdown in RP
This article by Jake Maderazo for the Philippine Inquirer offers to us a rundown of some issues surrounding the COVID-19...
Austrian minister denounces the use of fear-based strategy to deal with COVID-19
In this 16-minute address to the Austrian government, Minister of the Interior Herbert Kickl denounces the strategy used by the...