This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Tropospheric and surface ozone pollution pose significant threats to global crop production and food security, but farmers are largely unaware of its impact on agriculture and damage to ecosystems, say…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The COVID-19 pandemic underscores more than any time in recent history how important it is to protect public health. Yet, as countries race to develop a coronavirus vaccine, another everyday…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. How can an impact-driven startup hardwire a culture of accountability into its business from the start? For Public founder Judah Armani, becoming a Certified B Corporation was the answer. Armani…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Mental health is nearly always seen as an individual issue requiring individual solutions. Yet in reality it’s as much a problem for groups and organizations. One legacy of the COVID-19…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The coronavirus pandemic, suspected of originating in bats and pangolins, has brought the risk of viruses that jump from wildlife to humans into stark focus. These leaps often happen at…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. We have heard about it all before: rising temperatures, failing crops resulting in food insecurity, the melting ice caps – these are all part of the narrative of climate change.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Three-quarters of new and emerging infectious diseases in humans originate in wildlife. COVID-19, SARS and Ebola all started this way. The COVID-19 global pandemic has drawn new attention to how…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In the race between infection and injection, injection has lost. Public health experts estimate that approximately 70% of the world’s 7.9 billion people must be fully vaccinated to end the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. New technologies that capture and recycle carbon dioxide from industrial processes such as steel and cement making will be vital if the EU is to meet its goal of slashing…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. More than one million deaths worldwide were attributable to the burning of fossil fuels in 2017, according to a new study. More than half of those deaths were attributable to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In late 2017, photographer Matthijs Kuijpers spent two days driving into the mountains in Suriname–armed with guns, because of the presence of illegal gold mining in the area–in search of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Differences among nations’ COVID-19 outbreaks are due to a country’s median age, its obesity rate, its border-closure measures, and whether or not it is an island or mainland nation, according…