Fifa doping controls: Help us tracking!
FIFA announced one new rule in the run-up to the World Cup 2014: All players of all teams should be tested with blood and urin for the so-called biological profile prior to start of the competition. We...
View ArticleThe Long Journey of Wc Doping Samples
Doping controls during football world cups are extremly ineffective. Not a single player has been tested positive in the past four world cups. And it could get even worse in Brazil as there is the...
View ArticleFrancois Marque banned for six matches
The German Football Federation’s tribunal has ruled the positive test of Francois Marque as a doping offense. However, the defender of third division side Saarbrücken FC has been only banned for six...
View ArticleEuropean doping test systems: Record positives in Portugal
More than 100 positive doping tests have been discovered in Portuguese football over the last ten years. That’s quite remarkable and by far the record number in European football. What’s the reason for...
View ArticleDopingcase in German Football
There is a new doping case in Germany's professional football. Doping control officers found a cortisone substance in Francois Marque's blood. His club 1. FC Saarbrücken (third division) confirmed the...
View ArticleA new TV documentary reveals that superbugs are multiplying in the polluted...
Journalists from NDR and infectious disease researchers from the University of Leipzig travelled to India to investigate the runoff at pharmaceutical factories. In water samples collected in Hyderabad,...
View ArticleSeven things YOU can do to combat antibiotic resistance
Antibiotic resistance is one of the biggest public health threats of our time. CORRECTIV reporters have been covering superbugs for more than two years. Here are the seven things they've learned that...
View ArticleTen important moments in the history of antibiotic discovery
Starting in the 1930's, scientists began discovering antibiotics. These drugs have gone on to save millions of lives by killing the bugs responsible for infectious diseases. Here are the ten key...
View ArticleHow the Siemens bribery settlement funds opacity
After its huge bribery scandal, Siemens agreed to settle legal proceedings against it by funding anti-corruption work. Siemens uses these funds to finance the Austria-based International...
View ArticleRising salinity batters Bay of Bengal farmers
Shondha Rnai’s small island paradise in the Bay of Bengal is threatened by salt. The little fresh water she needs is taken up by shrimp cultivation for the US and Europe.
View ArticleUSA: Octopus in the mall
Across North America coastlines are dramatically changing. The countless floods are so expensive that they surpass the price of Hurricane Sandy in 2012.
View ArticleJapan is growing an island
In the Philippine sea an island, which has enormous strategic importance for Japan, is slowly sinking. Scientists are trying to grow baby coral on the rock to save it – and spending millions of dollars...
View ArticleClimate change is down to all of us
Comment: Global warming can be stopped, but only if we all reduce our consumption.
View ArticleWanted: A masterplan for St. Petersburg
Once upon a time, the "Venice of the North" was built in swamp near the coast. Now St. Petersburg is vulnerable to the rising sea. The problem: There is still no master plan to protect the city from...
View ArticleArgentina: Where the rich and poor will sink together
The delta of the Rio Paraná, just outside Buenos Aires, was once barely populated. That was, until the real estate developers came - and the islands in the wetlands were marketed as luxurious...
View ArticleBusiness Cheats
Forged bonds worth billions of Euros harm the world economy. A CORRECTIV investigation reveals how international fraudsters use fake German-government bonds to trick banks and clients.
View ArticleManila: A capital is sinking
In the last 50 years the sea level has increased more than 80 centimetres, according to our map. In ten or twenty years coastal areas around the city, home to millions of people, will be permanently...
View ArticleWhere the land rises faster than the sea
At first glance it's a paradox: While globally sea levels are rising, they’re sinking in Scandinavia, Greenland, Canada and Alaska. And also more recently in Iceland.
View ArticleMore than 60 million Africans are affected by sea level rise
Every year the sea rises an average of two millimetres globally. Data from South Africa suggests the increase will be much bigger there. Millions of people will lose their homes. But so far only Cape...
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