Despite intensive public health efforts to grind the COVID-19 pandemic to a halt, the recent emergence of the highly transmissible, extensively drug-resistant and profoundly immune system-evading ...

CLIMATEWIRE | The world is careening toward a major planetary milestone, leading meteorological organizations said Wednesday. Nations are striving to halt global warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius — yet ...

Activists at the COP climate conference held last year in Baku, Azerbaijan. This year’s conference will be in Brazil next month. Raising ambition to meet the Paris Agreement goal is a key discussion ...

Imagine you started a fire in your neighborhood, down the street from your house. You didn't mean to—you’re no arsonist—but there it is, blazing before your eyes. Your neighbor’s house is about to go ...

Piers Forster receives funding from EU and UK research councils. He is a member of the UK government's Climate Change Committee and a trustee of a woodland restoration charity (the United Bank of ...