by AIP Online Bureau | May 20, 2023 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Data, Eco/Invest/Demography, Non-Life, Pandemic, Workplace/Employee Benefits
A 46-year-old Cambodian man who lost his leg to diabetes. The annual global death toll from non-communicable diseases such as cancer, diabetes and heart disease, is estimated at 36 million. Photo: IRIN During 2020-2021, COVID-19 resulted in 336.8 million years of life...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 20, 2023 | Data, Non-Life, Risk Management
Road hypnosis, also called white line fever, is an altered mental state faced by drivers due to ”automaticity” or the process of doing things automatically without actively thinking about the steps involved A total of 39 persons have lost their lives and...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 20, 2023 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Policy
Echoing the bleak outlook, WHO data indicates that by May last year, 15 countries had reported cases, but by mid-May this year “we already have 24 countries reporting and we anticipate more with the seasonal shift in cholera cases,” said Henry Gray, WHO’s...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 20, 2023 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Workplace/Employee Benefits
Nonprofit Arsht-Rock Foundation Resilience Center in partnership with microinsurance startup Blue Marble and a trade union has one of the world’s first parametric insurance schemes for extreme heat in Gujarat If temperatures climb high enough above historical...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 19, 2023 | International News, Technology
London: Google on Friday defeated a lawsuit brought on behalf of 1.6 million people over medical records provided to the U.S. tech giant by a British hospital trust. The Royal Free London NHS Trust transferred patient data to Google’s artificial intelligence firm...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 19, 2023 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Non-Life, Technology
Britain aims to use carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology, which involves filtering planet-warming carbon from industrial smokestacks before it hits the atmosphere and storing it underground, to hold 20 million to 30 million tonnes of CO2 by 2030 London: Twelve...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 19, 2023 | Banking & Bancassurance, Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Workplace/Employee Benefits
The bank notes in Rs 2,000 denomination will continue to be a legal tender, the RBI said in a statement In order to ensure operational convenience and to avoid disruption of regular activities of bank branches, the RBI said exchange of Rs 2,000 bank notes into bank...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 19, 2023 | Data, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Workplace/Employee Benefits
New Delhi: The number of deaths worldwide from ischemic stroke is expected to increase to nearly five million by 2030, according to a study. The research, published in the journal Neurology, focused on ischemic stroke, which is caused by a blockage of blood flow to...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 19, 2023 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Data
To study the question systematically, the team, which included scientists from the United States, France, and Saudi Arabia, looked at Earth’s biggest 1,972 lakes and reservoirs, using observations from satellites from 1992-2020 More than half of the...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 19, 2023 | Workplace/Employee Benefits
