Despite intensive public health efforts to grind the COVID-19 pandemic to a halt, the recent emergence of the highly transmissible, extensively drug-resistant and profoundly immune system-evading ...

CLIMATEWIRE | The world is careening toward a major planetary milestone, leading meteorological organizations said Wednesday. Nations are striving to halt global warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius — yet ...

Nearly 200 nations shaped their climate plans around this number: 1.5 degrees Celsius. But that target, set seven years ago when there was less carbon in the sky, will almost certainly be overshot.

Activists at the COP climate conference held last year in Baku, Azerbaijan. This year’s conference will be in Brazil next month. Raising ambition to meet the Paris Agreement goal is a key discussion ...