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It’s the fastest-developed vaccine ever -- here’s how we pulled it off.
A conservation scientist interviewed on the programme says Sir David tells it like it is.
It's hard to fight an invisible foe -- it's even harder when you have no weapons.
You'd probably laugh at the idea of someone stealing water -- but that's because you live in a place where water is cheap.
It's a bad strategy to not be where your food is -- or when.
Good air is key for a good, healthy body.
Even news of world-changing events can't reach some places.
Plastic waste could impact our crops.
At least 50 billion years worth of unique evolutionary history is at risk, a new study found.
In addition to the South Korea and the Iceland, a number of countries have successfully handled the outbreak so far.
Some rising tides sink all boats.
"Ocean acidification is proceeding at a rate 10 times faster today than any time in the last 55 million years," the team explains.
The coronavirus pandemic is changing many things, and flying is chief among them.
I agree with that view.
The Swedish experiment is showcasing the risks of not imposing a lockdown.
We're up for a long period of weirdness; we'd better get used to it.
It's still too early to relax the quarantine, but countries are already working on plans to resume things gradually.
Japan is rapidly testing an existing drug against the coronavirus -- and it said it will give it up for free to virus-hit countries.
The findings highlight the importance of testing as many people as possible.
There will be few positives to take from coronavirus. But the global pandemic may yet prove to be an important moment in the attempts to address the illegal wildlife trade. The media has generally concentrated on effects rather than causes, in particular the global implications for public health and economies. But it is also vital […]
The study focuses on California, but the roots of the problem are global, the team explains.
While the study focused on the UK, the results point to plankton woes on a global level.
Luckily, our measures against COVID-19 works. Sadly, we need to bear through them a bit longer.
Political motivations should not overshadow a political crisis.
A new report from the Lancet finds a decrease in rates of death in COVID-19 cases but warns that even the most advanced medical care systems will be overwhelmed during the pandemic without urgent intervention.
History will likely look back at the handling of the COVID-19 crisis by the UK Government as a tale of bumbling ministers, clerical errors, lame excuses, and a populace failed by a criminally undersupported National Health Service--and that's just the past week in a nutshell.
Staying at home really does work.
Just in case you were wondering what else might be on the menu.
I know they feel safe, but they're a matter of life and death for doctors. For you, not so much.
SPENT is an "online poverty simulator" -- sounds lovely.
What we already know Being physically active is probably the number one thing that someone could do to fight off the negative cardiovascular effects of ageing. Exercise is also found to offer benefits in people with Type II diabetes, established heart disease, peripheral arterial disease and potentially conditions such as venous leg ulcers and rare […]
Not all is well in the ocean.
A team of researchers from the US and China has developed a passive, solar-powered desalinization system that could quench the thirst of remote, arid coastal areas on the cheap. The system employs several layers of solar evaporators and condensers stacked on top of each other in a vertical array, topped off with an insulating layer […]
Ocean acidification is threatening the entire marine food chain.
Fires in Australia have shown that we need to get proactive and work to prevent fires.
"We must harness these advances and set in place policies that provide healthier foods for people everywhere, especially those who can currently least afford them."
In areas of Australia, the sound of firetrucks is so common that birds are now mimicking them.
You can starve on too much food.
The solution is something most governments don't even want to hear.
Although the practice was criminalized in 2018, the law is rarely imposed and as a result, women are still forced to sleep outside or in ‘special’ huts during their menstruation. It’s almost 2020, we’ve sent people on the moon, robots on Mars, we’ve spread on the globe far and wide, and yet we still don’t […]
While we're still in a good place, we've been steadily going under.
The climate summit was supposed to take place in Chile, but massive protests and riots forced the country to pull out. Spain’s president jumped in, saying that Madrid can save the conference and host it from 2-13 December (as initially planned). Violence and climate Every year, world leaders meet under the auspice of the UN […]
A factory in France has created a process to recycle any plastic into any other plastic
Protected areas support the climate and wildlife -- it is our responsability to look after them properly.
Many atomic bombs that are officially dismantled are still very much functional. A team of researchers wants to fix that.
Grasslands provide food and shelter for countless wildlife species -- but they're now threatened by climate change.
Recycling? Taking the bus? Better light bulbs? That's all good, but how about taking fewer flights, eating more plants, and having fewer children?
Bolivia is suffering massive damage from forest fires.
Consequences of the Amazon fires continue to pop up.
We need to step up our game, a lengthy report shows.
