The systemic lapses that exacerbated the scale of the second COVID-19 wave would arguably not have happened in a country with a freer media that […]
Ayesha Tandon Glacier melt across the world has accelerated over the past two decades, a new study finds, with the resulting meltwater accounting for […]
WHO’s new technical manual on tobacco tax policy and administration shows countries ways to cut down on over US$1.4 trillion in health expenditures and lost productivity […]
Jane Spencer, The Guardian and Christina Jewett The yearlong series of investigative reports found that many of these deaths could have been prevented. Widespread shortages of […]
The global pandemic has exposed the terrible legacy of deliberately divisive and destructive policies that have perpetuated inequality, discrimination and oppression and paved the […]
Andrey Ralev The Blagoevgradska Bistritsa hydropower cascade was planned to use only the drinking water of the town of Blagoevgrad. Eight years later, it […]
Following population declines over several decades due to poaching for ivory and loss of habitat, the African forest elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis) is now listed […]
Ruth Douglas and Gareth Willmer More than half a million people may have died last year as a result of reductions in TB diagnosis and care, setting back […]
Benjamin Kaman A new subspecies of the western hoolock gibbon has been described recently from northeastern India, which has been named the Mishmi Hills […]
Liz Szabo Scientists say unprepared immune cells appear to be responding to the coronavirus with a devastating release of chemicals, inflicting damage that may […]
From Belarus to Bangladesh, authorities in 29 countries shut down or interfered with the internet at least 155 times in 2020. On a day-to-day basis, this prevented millions of people […]
The report, launched ahead of World Hearing Day on 3 March, underlines the need to rapidly step up efforts to prevent and address hearing […]