
Contaminated Food Sickens 1 in 10 People Worldwide Each Year
WHO calls for fighting food-borne diseases that can be deadly
WHO calls for fighting food-borne diseases that can be deadly
New IPCC chair is not concerned about his organization as much as the ambition of efforts to combat climate change
Decision throws construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope into question
Lessons from the social sciences about recruiting women into STEM fields
A tax on carbon is the most “elegant” solution to climate change
Terrorism is tough to study, but researchers have gleaned insights from the current generation of Islamist extremists
This week I’m going to cover some of the high profile hacks that have happened recently, including Lastpass, Kaspersky and the White House’s Office of Personnel Management (OPM)...
The world’s two largest polluters have been team players at the climate talks in Paris
Just how sensitive is Earth's climate to increasing concentrations of carbon dioxide?
New techniques that could make germ-line genetic engineering unprecedentedly easy are forcing policy makers to confront the ethical implications of moving forward
What was accomplished—or not—during two decades of United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change summits
President Obama and other world leaders urged action to combat global warming
Inaction on climate 'could see rise of 6 degrees Celsius'
Have questions about the climate talks? Here are eight answers that may help
Moral conviction, backed by facts, could finally inspire global action
Volunteers taking an "implicit bias" test who were unlikely to associate images of women with leadership titles like executive or president were far less likely to vote for a woman in a race against a man of equal qualification ...
Politics intrudes as a Republican congressman investigates NOAA climate scientists
American commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions are encouraging other nations
Powering the U.S. and 138 other countries exclusively with wind, water, and solar would solve global warming—and is entirely doable
How much aid is available to help adapt to global warming?
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