In 1989, a senior UN environmental official warned that entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend was not reversed […]
The 2008 financial crisis, also known as the Global Financial Crisis, was a severe economic downturn that was triggered by a housing market bubble burst in the United States. The crisis began […]
A porter has testified at the Scottish Covid-19 Inquiry that the hospital he works in was “half full” at “the outbreak” of covid and the beginning of the first lockdown. In April […]
The climate system is extremely complex and our understanding is deeply uncertain. There is a whole lot that we don’t know and even more that we can’t know. When in the 1980s, […]
The United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organisation (“FAO”) has published an agri-food road map to combat hunger and climate change. But it has drawn criticism from some for not going far enough. […]
Here are the results from the polls we’ve been running on our Telegram channel last week. We asked readers, or others in groups where our polls are shared, if we should continue […]
Drugmakers GlaxoSmithKline (“GSK”) and Boehringer Ingelheim have managed to persuade a Chicago jury to reject a woman’s claim that the heartburn drug Zantac caused her cancer. Although the companies won this case, […]