Several major banks that helped set up the UN’s now-defunct Net-Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA) in 2021 have since continued to lend money to coal companies, a new report has revealed.…
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As COP31 co-host, Australia should make its polluters pay for climate damage
Harjeet Singh is the global convenor of the Fill the Fund campaign and founding director of the Satat Sampada Climate Foundation. Julie-Anne Richards is strategic campaign lead for the Make…
Viewpoint: Died “with measles” vs. died “from measles”: RFK, Jr.’s dangerously subversive word games
The pandemic-era line “died with COVID, not from it” has come back, and this time it’s being used to leave measles deaths out of the national count. Writing for STAT…
Archaeologists uncover extensive Bronze Age settlement on Hungary’s Somló Hill
Archaeologists from the Hungarian National Museum have uncovered evidence of an extensive Bronze Age settlement on Somló Hill, revealing a sophisticated community that flourished more than 3,000 years ago. Somló…
Why Past Trauma Amplifies Future Stress
Summary: Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have uncovered an overlooked neural circuit in the anterior hypothalamic nucleus (AHN) that dictates how past trauma primes the…
What’s on the climate calendar for October 2026?
This is a republication of October’s edition of The Climate Agenda – a subscriber-only newsletter designed to keep you informed of the key events, negotiations and announcements happening every month.…
Here’s how brain-eating amoebas may infect people
Naegleria amoebas’ exploration skills and crawling behaviors could help explain how the brain-eating variety travel into human brains.
Global health research makes America richer and healthier
Recently, a middle-aged woman came to see me in my ophthalmology clinic because her eyes felt gritty and uncomfortable. She had seen another doctor a month earlier who diagnosed her…
A video of a humpback whale and her dead calf reveals the animals’ bond
Scientists had a rare view of what could be humpback whale mourning when they spotted a female attending the body of a dead calf. The sighting suggests that baleen whales…
Paul Huber | Better together: Do siblings help each other cope with environmental stress? – Functional Ecologists
In this ‘Behind the paper’ blog post, author Paul Huber – a PhD student at the University of Bayreuth, Germany – discusses his article “Context-dependent joint buffering of abiotic stress…
