Originally published on Sputnik, March 31, 2017. A new study has revealed that US heroin use has increased almost five fold in a decade. A spokesperson for the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, Dr. Kamran Niaz, told Sputnik that the crisis is a major epidemic, and that the excessive level of abuse of prescription…
Originally published on Sputnik, November 16, 2015. Politicians are misleading the public with false expectations for the upcoming UN climate change summit, a prominent climate economist has told Sputnik. Professor Richard Tol at the University of Sussex, warns that the current draft pledge to curb global warming by about 2.7 degrees Celsius by 2100, is…
RADIO: The UN says that the opium crop in Afghanistan is increasing for the third year running. According to their latest information Afghanistan is moving towards record levels of opium cultivation, as other markets fail, twelve years after the fall of the Taliban. Voice of Russia’s Nima Green reports. An Afghan farmer walks amongst a…
Nima Sherpa Green 