Two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, scientists are the most trusted members of society – by three-quarters of people – while government leaders are the least trusted.
Inequalities have been deepened in the midst of the pandemic, as a result of violent economic policies contributing to thousands of deaths a day, according to a new report by Oxfam Intern...
Australian authorities warned people to stay indoors on Friday as a severe heatwave along the northwestern coast pushed temperatures to a blistering 50.7 degrees Celsius (123 degrees Fahr...
After the calorie overload of the holiday season, January is the time when many – particularly in the Western world – rethink diets.
Confirmed cases of COVID-19 have passed 310.5 million globally, according to Johns Hopkins University. The number of confirmed deaths has now passed 5.49 million. More than 9.46 billion v...
Two years on from the first COVID-19 cases, countries are reporting record infections due to the Omicron variant, but the pandemic pales compared to the long-term risks the world faces fr...
This article was first published 3 February 2022 and updated 12 December 2022.
"Just like previous variants, Omicron is hospitalizing people and it is killing people."
US President Joe Biden is due to visit Colorado on Friday to view the devastation left by a rare, winter wildfire that ravaged two Denver-area towns last week, displacing thousands of res...
Health topped the news agenda once more in 2021, with ‘Covid vaccine’ the number one Google News search in the UK.
Two years after the first reported cases of COVID-19 and one year after the first vaccine was administered, there’s new hope for ending the pandemic, in the form of antiviral pills that c...
The New York City Council voted on Wednesday to ban the use of natural gas in new buildings, following in the footsteps of dozens of smaller US cities seeking to shift from fossil fuels t...
Confirmed cases of COVID-19 have passed 270.8 million globally, according to Johns Hopkins University. The number of confirmed deaths has now passed 5.31 million. More than 8.47 billion v...
In the two years since the first case of COVID-19 was reported, the disease has killed more than 5.27 million people across the globe.
The United Nations appealed on Thursday for a record $41 billion to provide life-saving assistance next year to 183 million people worldwide caught up in conflict and poverty, led by a tr...
