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Dr Joerg Szarzynski joins CRJ Editorial Advisory Panel
CRJ welcomes Dr Jörg Szarzynski, Education Programme Director and Head of the EduSphere section...
9/11 caused mental illness far beyond US borders
A recent population-wide study from Denmark, demonstrates a ‘significant and immediate’ ...
Study examines cancer rates among World Trade Center-exposed firefighters
Researchers found no overall increase in cancer risk among World Trade Center (WTC)-exposed firefigh...
Rumour patterns on social media during emergencies
A researcher at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) in Israel has developed a new methodology t...
Counter-terrorism specialists team up to take down online terrorist propaganda
For the first time since its launch, Europol’s Internet Referral Unit (EU IRU) has organised a...
Study examines how AI might affect urban life in 2030, including healthcare, safety and security
A panel of academic and industrial thinkers has looked ahead to 2030 to forecast how advances in art...
UN’s new environment chief warns pollution kills as many people as cancer a year
The new head of the United Nations environment agency has laid out key issues facing the intern...
Peers and public perception influence firefighters against safety equipment, research finds
Analysis by a team from Drexel University in the US, have found that firefighters may shun safety ge...
New non-commercial initiative to fight ransomware
EU: Dutch National Police, Europol, Intel Security and Kaspersky Lab have joined forces to launch an...
World Risk Report 2016: Inadequate infrastructure pushes up the risk of disaster
Inadequate infrastructure and weak logistic chains substantially increase the risk that an extreme n...
Hong Kong University chemists synthesise 'game changing' antibiotic
Dr Xuechen Li of HKU Department of Chemistry and his research team, together with collaborators in U...
Earthquake in central Italy leaves dozens dead
At least 73 people have been killed in an earthquake that hit a mountainous area of central Italy, a...
India floods: Several dead and thousands rescued
Floods across India have killed more than 30 people and displaced thousands. Central Madhya Pradesh...
Germans told to stockpile food and water for civil defence
For the first time since the Cold War the German government is advising citizens to stockpile food a...
Louisiana floods: One of the worst recent US disasters
Days of heavy rain have caused historic flooding in the US state of Louisiana, bringing as much...
California wildfires: Ferocious fires evict thousands
Firefighters are continuing to tackle a huge blaze in southern California, with several of them desc...
Climate disasters increase risk of armed conflict in multi-ethnic countries
Climate disasters like heat-waves or droughts enhance the risk of armed conflicts in countries with ...
Has a new temperature record been broken?
The World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) has set up a committee to examine whether Mitrabah,...