As people continue to huddle indoors, avoiding their usual daily commute to work and school, it is inevitable that humans’ dramatic new relationship with the world would have a major impact on the ...
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the atmosphere temporarily lost its ability to break down methane, leading to a huge spike in the greenhouse gas.
Today is the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. And from our city to the planet as a whole, the COVID-19 pandemic has been hard on humans, but it has had profound effects on our planet. From the air we ...
A Cambridge-based program is tackling the growing threat of engineered pandemics, seeking to prevent bioweapon-driven outbreaks before they begin. Reading time 2 minutes Half a decade after the ...
In the early hours of Wednesday morning in Geneva, countries finalized a draft global agreement aimed at improving how the world prepares for and responds to pandemics, marking a historic step that ...
A Maine man found himself in one of the most remote places on Earth as the coronavirus pandemic hit last year. U.S. Antarctic Program weather observer Jeff DeRosa spent much of 2020 at the South Pole.
The pandemic has reignited calls to sever supply chains with China, which isn't easy when the U.S. relies on rare earth elements used in defense... COVID-19 Pandemic Highlights U.S. Reliance On ...