Art How Ukrainians are desperately fighting to protect their cultural heritage amid an invasion March 16, 2022
News Nuclear energy could be the missing puzzle piece in our clean energy transition February 15, 2022
Climate Compound droughts risk destabilizing the global food supply if we keep burning fossil fuels February 10, 2022
Health After the US, the European Union has now surpassed 1 million new coronavirus cases daily January 6, 2022
Animals Solar parks could act as life rafts for bumblebees and other pollinators December 13, 2021 - Updated on December 14, 2021
Climate EU wants to ban imports linked to deforestation — beef, coffee, and chocolate are included November 18, 2021 - Updated on November 23, 2021
World Problems Holocaust Museum Report: the Chinese government may be committing genocide November 11, 2021
Health The global response to the pandemic has been “a collective failure”, according to independent health watchdog October 26, 2021
Health India has administered 1 billion vaccine doses to its citizens, moving closer to 100% goal October 25, 2021 - Updated on October 26, 2021
Climate Airborne microplastics have a growing influence on the climate, but we need more data October 20, 2021
Health Eight months later: researchers quantify the long-term effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines October 18, 2021
Climate Climate change is making the Earth dimmer, which, in turn, warms up the climate October 2, 2021
Animals Temperature extremes on both ends impair bees’ flight, raising new concerns about climate change August 18, 2021
Animals Pesticides, parasites, hunger — bees worldwide are dying faster than we thought, other pollinators might be too August 6, 2021
Health A lab experiment shows that we could engineer malaria-carrying mosquitoes to kill themselves off July 28, 2021
Environment Iran’s groundwater resources are rapidly depleting, and everyone should pay attention May 19, 2021
Climate CO2 concentrations quietly reached the highest daily values in recorded history April 15, 2021
Environment More than 900,000 tons of food are thrown away every year, a UN report showed March 5, 2021
Environment Cities are literally starting to sink under their own weight February 17, 2021 - Updated on September 21, 2023
Agriculture New approach to lab-grown meat creates more realistic, more customizable steaks January 20, 2021
Biology What made the development of the COVID-19 vaccine unique in history January 13, 2021 - Updated on May 6, 2023
Animals ‘Extinction: The Facts’: Attenborough’s new documentary is surprisingly radical September 16, 2020
Environment Air pollution can contaminate your heart cells with metal nanoparticles from infancy July 6, 2020
News Half a year into the pandemic, there are still people who haven’t heard of it — and it’s bad for everyone June 26, 2020
Animals Human activity might undo more than 50 billion years of evolution May 26, 2020 - Updated on May 30, 2020
Environment We could see up to 1.3m of sea-level rise by 2100 if we don’t take action now May 11, 2020
Health Health experts are calling Trump’s slashing of WHO funding “dangerous, politically-motivated” April 19, 2020
Health Sweden didn’t impose a lockdown. It might be paying a heavy price April 16, 2020 - Updated on May 5, 2020
Health Japan is racing to test Avigan against COVDI-19 — and it’s offering the drug for free to virus-hit countries April 8, 2020 - Updated on July 19, 2020