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The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated that zoonotic diseases – infections that pass from animals to humans – can present tremendous threats to global health. More than 70% of emerging and…

Climate models that don’t take the interaction of wind and shallow ocean currents into account can underestimate warming, research shows.

Last year, the Associated Press announced an initiative to enhance the global understanding of climate change, its impacts, and solutions through quality climate journalism that is inclusive of local perspectives and contexts, and in places where climate is under-reported.

Disaster relief workers, activists, social entrepreneurs, health-care providers, teachers, and others actively weaving the healthy, just, and caring fabric of our society live and work at the heart of great…

Researchers are creating a database of more than 16,000 formerly enslaved people in St. Lucia in 1815. A book will also tell their stories.

The oceanic phenomenon will increase temperatures and precipitation, which could fuel the spread of mosquitoes, bacteria, and toxic algae.

The UN Global Diversity Framework aims for the conservation of 30% of land and 30% of seas. That’s not enough, say researchers.

Ten years after the collapse at Rana Plaza in Bangladesh, the garment industry’s deadliest disaster, reforms are incomplete. The opaqueness of today’s complex supply chain is part of the problem.

Extractivism props up patriarchal power structures but women create bold solutions.