Russia is the single country with the most high-valued area ripe for conservation with 138,436 square km identified in the study, an area the size of...
Members of the Afghan girls robotics team, who have been living in Qatar for almost two years, recently received news that they have been accepted by...
Rapidly melting Antarctic ice is dramatically slowing down the flow of water through the world’s oceans, and could have a disastrous impact on global climate, the...
Research carried out by the UK’s St Andrews University has found that humans understand the “signs” or gestures wild chimps and bonobos use to communicate with...
A new study, published in the Clinical Kidney Journal, by a group of researchers has found the death of the most celebrated martial artist, Bruce Lee,...
Five billion people would die in a modern nuclear war with the impact of a global famine — triggered by sunlight-blocking soot in the atmosphere —...
A new study has found that around one in 20 people who have tested positive for COVID-19 worldwide have long-term smell or taste problems for at...
The number of people displaced within their own borders rose to an all-time high by the end of last year, with a total at least 59.1...
Almost all residents of Indonesia’s most populous island of Java have antibodies against COVID-19, owing to a combination of prior infection and vaccination against the virus,...
Flooding cost the global economy more than $82 billion last year, accounting for nearly a third of all losses from natural catastrophes, reinsurance agency Swiss Re...
Climate change has made extreme rainfall events of the kind that sent lethal torrents of water hurtling through parts of Germany and Belgium last month at...
One in three COVID-19 survivors, in a study of more than 230,000 mostly American patients, were diagnosed with a brain or psychiatric disorder within six months,...
New Delhi was the world’s most polluted capital for the third straight year in 2020, according to IQAir, a Swiss group that measures air quality levels...