EpidemiologyMay 2, 2022
Climate Change Will Boost Viral Outbreaks
A modeling study is the first to project how global warming will increase animal encounters and virus swapping between species
Stories by Natasha Gilbert
Natasha Gilbert is a freelance journalist reporting on global ecological changes and solutions to these challenges.
PolicyFebruary 25, 2022
The Controversial China Initiative Is Ending, and Researchers Are Relieved
The U.S. Department of Justice announced major changes to the espionage-protection program, but scientists hope for further acknowledgment of the damage done
HealthFebruary 16, 2016
Legal Tussle Delays Launch of Huge Toxicity Database
Health risks of nearly 10,000 chemicals charted to help predict toxicity of untested substances.
HealthAugust 7, 2015
Some STIs Are Beneficial, and May Have Boosted Evolutionary Promiscuity
One sexually transmitted virus seems to cut HIV death rates
EnvironmentJune 10, 2015
Preemptive Genetics Girds Farmers for Climate Extremes and Disease
High-tech breeding to bolster cattle and crops against potential outbreaks is becoming increasingly urgent as diseases continue to march across Africa
May 1, 2013
A Hard Look at 3 Myths about Genetically Modified Crops
Superweeds? Suicides? Stealthy genes? The true, the false and the still unknown about transgenic crops
EnvironmentOctober 16, 2012
EPA Fights Back over Mountaintop Mining
An appeals court is set to decide on the agency's veto power to protect wildlife and habitats
September 4, 2012
India's Forest Area in Doubt
Reliance on satellite data is blamed for overoptimistic estimates of the nation's forest cover
EnvironmentJuly 25, 2012
Drought Devastates U.S. Maize and Soya Crops
The impact on food prices is likely to be felt around the world
June 15, 2012
Earth Summit: A Report Card to Preview the Rio+20 Mega-Conference
The world has failed to deliver on many of the promises it made 20 years ago at an Earth summit in Brazil
HealthJanuary 12, 2012
Anti-GM Groups Attempt to Sully Transgenic Control of Dengue Fever
Some lab-bred GM mosquitoes can survive in the wild, green groups say, but the bug-maker calls that assertion 'inaccurate'