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Temasek’s ABC World Asia backs Vietnamese oral health provider Kim Dental

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, February 4 — Singapore-based private equity impact fund ABC World Asia, launched by Temasek in 2019, led a $24 million financing round. The post Temasek’s ABC World Asia backs Vietnamese oral health provider Kim Dental appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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Millions are at risk using high arsenic water for cooking, says study

Envirotec Magazine

The use of water contaminated with higher than recommended levels of arsenic could pose a serious health risk to millions, according to a new study from the University of Sheffield. Obviously, for people in countries where rice is a staple food, consumption is higher and the health risk also increases, such as in many parts of Asia.

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Cost-effective response to COVID-19: Light every health clinic in Africa and south Asia

Impact Alpha

Europe and the United States face the challenge of providing tens of thousands of people to access intensive health care services. In Africa and southern Asia, hundreds of thousands of people live each day without adequate access to any healthcare at all. (Editor’s note: This article was originally published by Power for All.

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Almost nowhere on Earth safe from PM2.5, says Melbourne study

Envirotec Magazine

Calcutta, India: In southern Asia and eastern Asia, more than 90% of days had daily PM 2.5 Now this study, led by Professor Yuming Guo, from the Monash University School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine in Melbourne, Australia, and published in Lancet Planetary Health , provides a map of how PM 2.5

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Canadian LNG Will Stall Asia’s Shift to Renewables, Energy Experts in Asia Say

DeSmogBlog

But an impending flood of liquefied natural gas exports from western Canada to Asia could make it harder for countries there to achieve their national climate targets and contribute to tens of thousands of additional deaths due to air pollution. This could have dire health impacts. C is to stop building new fossil fuel projects.

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Getting to Ground-Truth in Asia: Part Two – How Countries Use Satellite Data for Forest Management 

Planet Pulse

As we saw in Part One of this “Getting to Ground-Truth in Asia” series, there can be discrepancies between what’s reported by onsite workers and what can be seen from space. As a part of this series, you can read more about how satellite data is being used to verify crop production in India here.

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Brief: Nutrition Technologies lands $20m to expand insect-protein operation across Asia

AFN Sustainable Protein

According to the International Platform of Insects for Food and Feed (IPIFF), insect protein can address the nutritional needs of animals, leading to higher growth rates, better animal health and overall development. The post Brief: Nutrition Technologies lands $20m to expand insect-protein operation across Asia appeared first on AFN.

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