State of the world's nursing 2025
<p>Central to the achievement of the Agenda for Sustainable Development is an adequate, equitably distributed and fully supported health workforce. Nurses are the largest occupational group and represent
Europe
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Prefect power
France has 58 million people living in 22 regions, 96 departments (counties) and 36,000 municipalities, varying in population size from 100 to 2 million. Two-thirds of the municipalities have less
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Passing USA's laugh test
Helping George Bush gain political mileage seemed to be the overriding concern at the recent climate convention negotiations in New York. India stood alone on the issue of apportioning global sinks
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EC launches from audits
IT IS time for European farmers to clean up their backyards: the European Community has launched in London its first environmental audit for farms. The brainchild of Linking Environment and Farming
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Lurking danger
the latest item to join the list of banned products in Europe because of its possible risk to human health is an antibiotic called avoparcin. The European Union (eu) is going to ban the
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Increasing green cover
large-scale reforestation programmes and cultivation of abandoned agricul tural land has led to the expansion of forest area in Europe by 500,000 hectares a year. This was stated in a recent
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New Brazil law for environmental transparency
Over the past few months, Rachel Biderman Furriela a Brazil based lawyer and activist has been punching the keys of her laptop furiously. She is busy acknowledging congratulatory mails from her network of friends an international group of lawyers wo
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European bird pioneers new route
The European blackcap has dramatically changed its migration pattern, flying to a new site, more than 1,000 km north of the region where it traditionally spent the winter.
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Salted lands of Australia
Bad cropping practices and ill planned water management leads to salted Australian farmland<br>
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Divided union
industrialists and environmentalists are at loggerheads over a law being draf-ted by the European Commission (ec) which would force companies to pay for the environmental damage they cause. As
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Stringent measures
AN ACTION plan has been prepared for imposing controls on the European Union's (EU) food market. The European Commission (EC) has decided to set up a food and veterinary office (FVO) in Ireland.