Laurie GoeringClimate editorCan the Fridays for Future movement recover its momentum?Two years ago, an estimated 4 million people followed Greta Thunberg and her fellow youth activists into the streets, demanding swift action on climate threats. Then the COVID-19 pandemic hit and the movement was largely forced online.On Friday, groups of protesters returned to the streets in cities from London to Nairobi, chanting and waving homemade signs
It would also greatly cut greenhouse gas emissions. AUTHORSChad Frischmann is co-author, lead researcher and creator of the Drawdown Solutions Framework at Project Drawdown, an international research group focused on solving climate change.Credit: Nick HigginsMamta Mehra is a senior fellow for the land-use and food sectors at Project Drawdown.Credit: Nick HigginsSeptember 29, 2021Credit: fcafotodigital Getty Imagesdiv class="article-block
Studies of bats in China and Laos show southeast Asia is a hotspot for potentially dangerous viruses similar to SARS-CoV-2. By Smriti Mallapaty, Nature magazine on September 28, 2021A sleeping colony of Greater horseshoe bats (Rhinolophus ferrumequinum) on a cave ceiling. Credit: AlamyScientists have found three viruses in bats in Laos that are more similar to SARS-CoV-2 than any known viruses. Researchers say that parts
AuthorTimothy A. CareyDirector: Institute of Global Health Equity Research, Andrew Weiss Chair of Research in Global Health, University of Global Health EquitySeptember 24, 2021Over 40% of the countries on the UK’s COVID-19 ‘red list’ are in sub-Sahara Africa. Photo by Tolga Akmen/AFP via Getty ImagesEarlier this year the UK introduced a “traffic light” system in yet another attempt to contain and mitigate the effects of COVID-19. The system assigned
