Are you more likely to die of covid-19 if you live in a polluted area?

Pandemic

2020-04-30 / www.newscientist.com

From Milan to Wuhan, we know coronavirus-related travel restrictions have temporarily cut air pollution. One preliminary analysis in China even suggests the number of early deaths from dirty air that have been avoided exceeds the ...

Climate change raises the geopolitical temperature

Geopolitics

2019-12-13 / www.ft.com

Great Power rivalry and unwieldy institutions exacerbate conflict over resources.

From the Arctic to sub-Saharan Africa, and from the Middle East to Central Asia, climate change is turning cross-border competition for natural resources into a defining feature of international relations. Population ...

Deathwatch for the Amazon

Climate Change

2019-08-01 / www.economist.com

Although its cradle is the sparsely wooded savannah, humankind has long looked to forests for food, fuel, timber and sublime inspiration. Still a livelihood for 1.5bn people, forests maintain local and regional ecosystems and, for the other 6.2bn, provide a-fragile ...