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5 books to read for context on the coronavirus outbreak

It was written more than 70 years ago, but Albert Camus’ celebrated classic La Peste (The Plague) is speaking to us as loudly as ever. The book, which tells of the spread of a plague in a...

The film industry is more diverse than ever before - here's why

James Corden and Rebel Wilson dressed as cats. Elton John, Billie Eilish and Eminem blasting out hits. A red carpet packed with world-famous actors. The 92nd Oscars offered plenty for the...

This is what the UK’s major supermarkets say about plastic packaging and the environment

The vast majority of UK shoppers is now concerned about the volume of plastic waste, finds a new report.

The Arctic is having holes stabbed through it at an alarming rate

Residents of the small Alaskan town Kongiganak can no longer bury their dead. Their cemetery has become a marshy swamp, sucking graves into the once frozen ground.

Want to understand the world's biggest problems better? Read these 7 books

Reading, studies show, increases empathy and charitable thinking. Fiction has even been credited with helping readers improve their understanding of others and make changes in their own l...

You can live up to 10 years longer by doing these 5 things

Do you eat your greens? Get daily exercise? Limit how much alcohol you drink? There are five healthy habits that can help you live up to a decade longer, cutting the risk of cancer, heart...

Here's how eating sea urchins could help save the oceans' dying kelp forests

Spiky, voracious and multiplying at an alarming rate, sea urchins are destroying marine ecosystems around the world. The solution? Eat them, according to one company.

A new tidal energy project just hit a major milestone in Scotland

Sitting off the north coast of Scotland, on the depths of the ocean floor, a gigantic feat of engineering has just achieved a significant milestone.

Voici les principaux risques auxquels le monde sera confronté en 2020

Cet article fait partie de la Réunion Annuelle du Forum Économique Mondial

Global risks report 2020: These are the top risks facing the world

Following a year of floods and droughts, when fires ravaged Australia and the Amazon, and teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg was chosen as Time’s Person of the Year, it is perhaps li...

Global migration, by the numbers: who migrates, where they go and why

There are an estimated 272 million international migrants around the world. And while that equals just 3.5% of the world’s population, it already surpasses some projections for 2050. Sinc...

Want to have a healthy brain? Make sure you're washing it every day

From technology entrepreneur Elon Musk to former Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer and business mogul Richard Branson, there is no shortage of successful people claiming to need just a few hours’ ...

As Malaysia’s last Sumatran rhino dies, there are more species facing extinction due to habitat destruction

The Sumatran rhino once roamed Asia. Today, fewer than 100 remain – and in fact, some estimates put the number as low as 30.

A 1939 Marvel comic book just sold for $1.26 million – and it’s not even the most expensive comic out there

Kapow! Thwack! Boom! Who knew the price tags on comics could pack such a punch?