At any one time it’s estimated there are 10 quintillion insects alive. That’s 10,000,000,000,000,000,000. Or an awful lot of bugs. By biomass they outnumber humans many times over. Is you...
From bananas and sausages to flights and fuel, we all like to keep a tally of what we spend. But whether we monitor the price in dollars, rupees or yuan, it’s unlikely we are also measuri...
Parents and teachers in the US overwhelmingly think climate change is an issue to be taught at school - and yet it doesn’t feature in lessons for the majority of children.
A free press is seen as one of the key measures of a healthy democratic society.
From wearable health and training devices to goal line assistance in football, technology has been invading the sporting field for some years. Whether by helping the athletes up their gam...
One-third of all EU trade last year was with the US and China. Combined, EU countries conducted €674 bn ($750 bn) worth of trade with the US in 2018. Import and export deals with China to...
Waves of up to 50 feet virtually wiped the Japanese port town of Onagawa off the map in 2011.
Malaria has plagued humankind throughout history. Malarial DNA was discovered in Eyptian mummy tissues from 4,000 years ago and in amber from as far back as 100 million years ago.
Agriculture is already one of the biggest contributors to global warming. The greenhouse gases released in the form of methane from cattle and rice farms, nitrous oxide from fertilized fi...
You only have to look at the highly politicized troubles around the introduction of the act known as Obamacare in the US to see how fraught overhauling a healthcare system can be.
Mountains have long held a certain mystique for those living in their shadows.
Sales of electric cars in Norway have overtaken traditional vehicles for the first time: 58% of all new vehicles sold in March 2019 were battery-powered.
Thanksgiving weekend, 1966. A thick smog engulfed New York. Residents with respiratory or heart conditions were warned by health officials to stay indoors as toxic air hung in a haze over...
L'éducation peut être le passeport pour l'avenir. Pourtant, il semblerait que les écoles ne parviennent pas à transmettre certaines des compétences de vie les plus importantes, selon un e...
They say home is where the heart is. But for a large proportion of the world’s population, home is where the work is. Or the food is. Or safety.
