This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. After their introduction more than 80 years ago, antibiotics saved millions of lives, transforming health care. Now, though, the ubiquitous use of these “wonder drugs” has led to the natural…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Two new coal-fired power plants, PLTU 9 and 10, are being constructed in Suralaya, Indonesia to provide an additional 2,000 MW of installed electricity capacity. Seven coal-fired units already operate…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The U.S. faces one of the most consequential public health campaigns in history right now: to vaccinate the population against COVID-19 and, especially, to get shots into the arms of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. A new study that suggests hat U.S. cities are undercounting their emissions. The study, published in the Nature Communications journal earlier this month, assessed the self-reported inventories of carbon dioxide in 48…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Worsening air quality is a pan-India problem: 76 percent of Indians live in places that do not meet national air quality standards. Air pollution is a leading risk factor for…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Vaccine hesitancy was listed as one of the top 10 threats to global health by the World Health Organization (WHO) back in 2019 — but in 2021, it remains as threatening…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. We’re entering Month No. 11 of the COVID-19 pandemic, and finally—mercifully, really—there’s a vaccine on the horizon to provide relative immunity from the potentially deadly virus. Many Americans have been…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, hundreds of meatpacking plants across the country have struggled to contain outbreaks. Many of the hardest-hit plants are in the Midwest and Great Plains, where…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Racial and ethnic minority communities that lack internet access have been left behind in the race to get a COVID-19 vaccine. The average monthly cost of internet access, about US$70,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Seattle area has the country’s third largest concentration of citizens like Lovey, experiencing homelessness, and the city has become the centre of the US’s battle against the spread of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In normal times, about 100 souls live in this small Northern Minnesota town on the banks of the Mississippi River where we are making our stand against one of the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Abortion is an emotionally-charged issue that involves gender, religion, civil liberties, morality and a person’s freedom to make their own health decisions without interference from the state. So it’s important…