Science and Health

Pacific atolls face risk from rising seas

WHO links forced Afghan repatriation from Pakistan to polio resurgence

For 3rd straight year, no improvement in Earth’s projected warming

World’s largest coral discovered in Solomon Islands

In photos: World’s largest coral discovered in Solomon Islands

Sierra Leone begins to vaccinate health care workers against Ebola

US overdose deaths down, giving experts hope for enduring decline

At UN climate talks, nations big and small get chance to bear witness to climate change

Teen in critical condition with Canada’s first presumptive human case of bird flu

Biggest name world leaders missing at UN climate talks, others fill the void

Mexico City’s floating gardens in peril

Canada detects its first presumptive human H5 bird flu case

Experts release new guidelines for preventing strokes

Climate, health crises must be resolved together, experts say

Global warming tops milestone ahead of climate summit

Global warming tops crucial milestone ahead of COP29 climate summit

Can bees and dogs sniff out cancer better than machines?

WHO: 2 UK mpox cases first local transmissions in Europe

WHO identifies priority pathogens for new vaccines development

WHO continues talks to prepare world for pandemics

Public funding for nature conservation stalls at COP16, eyes on private investment

Mpox cases in Congo may be stabilizing, but more vaccines needed to stamp out virus

Lahore air pollution hits historic high, forcing school closures

Nevada lithium mine will crush rare plant habitat US said is critical to its survival, lawsuit says

Will people leave Florida after devastating hurricanes? History suggests not

Time to ‘fall back’ an hour as daylight saving time ends

Agreement signed at UN summit gives Indigenous groups voice

Robot retrieves first melted fuel from Fukushima nuclear reactor

Winter depression is real, and there are many ways to fight back

World’s largest captive crocodile dies in Australia

COVID-19 shots banned at public health district in Idaho, likely first in US

WHO says more than 50,000 vaccinated against mpox in DR Congo, Rwanda

Toxic smog cloaks New Delhi a day after Diwali festival

Bird flu infects 3 more people; number of human cases in US grows to 39

Fourth mass coral bleaching prompts UN emergency session at Colombia biodiversity summit

Use of firecrackers renews air pollution debate in India ahead of Diwali

China-Russia cooperation blocks Antarctic conservation proposals

Militant attacks in Pakistan hinder polio immunization campaigns

US detects H5N1 bird flu in pig for first time

Britain identifies its first case of new mpox variant

Record 8 million people diagnosed with TB in 2023, WHO reports

One person dead in Iowa from Lassa fever, state health department says

Pakistan, Afghanistan launch polio vaccination drives as cases resurge

McDonald’s Quarter Pounder returns after E. coli testing rules out beef

How to prepare for potential health effects of upcoming end to daylight saving time

NASA astronaut released from hospital after return from space station

NASA astronaut hospitalized upon return from extended stay in space

Climate finance to take center stage at COP29

Four astronauts return to Earth after being delayed by Boeing’s capsule trouble, Hurricane Milton

How Afghan, Pakistani clerics battle polio vaccine misinformation

Snakebite victims in Southern Africa struggle to get antivenom

Polio strikes as misinformation fuels vaccine refusal in Pakistan and Afghanistan

E. coli outbreak tied to McDonald’s Quarter Pounder kills 1, sickens dozens in US

Polio resurfaces in Ivory Coast, threatening country’s children

New mpox variant detected in Germany

China unveils first diagnosis guidelines to battle escalating obesity crisis

French government takes new blows over deal to sell painkiller maker to US fund

Environmental delegates gather in Colombia for a conference on dwindling global biodiversity

WHO urges Rwanda to see off Marburg outbreak

Whooping cough is at a decade-high level in US