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9Humans
open
Global / Unspecified, Global
Over the next two decades, rising resistance in bacteria, fungi, and parasites risks undermining surgery, chemotherapy, and intensive care. Global surveillance networks, rapid diagnostics, and new antimicrobial development platforms are crucial to avert a post-antibiotic era.
health-biology
global-unspecified
antimicrobial
resistance
over
next
decades
make
routine
infections
deadly
again
will
data
climate-environment
society-governance
infrastructure
europe
open
South & Southeast Asia, Asia
Rising temperatures combined with high humidity are pushing some regions toward conditions where outdoor work becomes dangerous. Heat-early-warning systems and outdoor worker protection policies need urgent development.
climate-environment
asia
south-southeast-asia
extreme
heatwaves
becoming
frequent
deadly
south
southeast
outdoor
rising
systems
economics-resources
society-governance
real
time
predicting
Competition over shrinking grazing land and water is turning traditional rivalries deadly in several regions. Conflict-early-warning systems and shared resource-management agreements could ease tensions.
social-civic-problems
africa
cattle
rustling
farmer-herder
clashes
growing
source
rural
violence
competition
over
global-unspecified
water
climate-environment
urban
african
asia
Workers use bare hands and open nitric acid to extract gold and copper from electronics, inhaling deadly fumes and contaminating urban drainage networks.
climate-environment
asia
pakistan
open
acid
urban
haven
eliminated
hazardous
e-waste
dismantling
baths
informal
society-governance
african
global-unspecified
technical
standards
open
Global / Unspecified, Global
Drug-resistant tuberculosis requires longer, more expensive, and more toxic treatment regimens that many patients in affected regions simply can't access or complete. This keeps a preventable disease deadly in the parts of the world least equipped to fight it.
health-biology
global-unspecified
tuberculosis
treatment
don
have
affordable
widely
available
strains
resistant
standard
whether
philosophy-ethics
way
determine
resolved
agreed
open
Global / Unspecified, Global
Bacteria are evolving resistance faster than pharmaceutical companies are creating new antibiotics to fight them. Left unresolved, common infections could become deadly again within a few decades.
health-biology
global-unspecified
bacteria
faster
new
antibiotics
stop
antibiotic-resistant
spreading
develop
evolving
resistance
philosophy-ethics
whether
haven
determine
prevent
mathematics-logic
