Imagine someone has chronic pain. One doctor focuses on the body part that hurts and keeps trying to fix that single symptom.

On 14 August, exhausted UN delegates filed into a windowless plenary hall, after hours of intensive debate and little sleep, to watch their hopes of a global treaty to tackle plastic pollution ...

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In Brazil’s Yanomami Indigenous Territory and across other parts of the Amazon Basin, illegal gold mining has metastasized into a transnational criminal enterprise. What starts with illegal ...

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A global review of more than 6,000 records shows that water pollution now affects nearly half of the world’s waters.

As the world grapples with myriad environmental problems, a growing number of studies show the role of religion is key. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. Religion ...