Farm animals in the US, such as pigs, cows, and chickens, receive more than 80 percent of the antibiotics sold in the States.
Globally around 200,000 people die each year in the developing world due to organophosphorus pesticide poisoning.
Meteorologists warns that the collapse of Pine Island and Thwaites glaciers in Antarctica could flood every coastal city on Earth.
There is more artificial light at night across the globe and that light at night is getting brighter. The rate of growth is approximately two percent each year.
A US sugar industry trade group appears to have pulled the plug on a study that was producing evidence linking sucrose to disease nearly 50 years ago.
The international team of researchers looked at the sperm impact of short and long term exposure to fine particulate matter (PM2.5) among nearly 6500 15 to 49 year old men in Taiwan.
Researchers have found that the arc of prehistory bends towards economic inequality. Findings have profound implications for contemporary society.
The viewpoint article -- "World Scientists' Warning to Humanity: A Second Notice" - was signed by more than 15,000 scientists in 184 countries.
Average consultation length varies widely, from 48 seconds in Bangladesh, to 22.5 minutes in Sweden. In 15 countries, which represent around half of the world's population, the appointment lasted less than 5 minutes.
Schools are closed, construction has halted, and vehicles have been restricted as levels of PM2.5 pollution spike in the Indian capital.
As the report makes clear, there is no reasonable doubt remaining that climate change is a story about human actions—not natural cycles.
Developing brains, sleep patterns, and even eyes make children uniquely vulnerable to the body-clock disrupting impact of electronics.
Explosion of rats, clovers, bedbugs, mosquitoes unintended evolutionary consequence of urbanization.
Experts are split on whether the coming years will see less misinformation online. Those who foresee improvement hope for technological and societal solutions.
New Zealand is thinking about "an experimental humanitarian visa category" for people uprooted from their homes because of climate change.
