Month: March 2022

You’ve probably heard it by now: Covid-19 is not going away. The broad consensus among experts is that it’s not realistic to think we’re going “How you’ll know when Covid-19 has gone from “pandemic” to “endemic””

SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, has made our future vulnerability to biological pathogens — and what we can learn to help prevent the next “How biological detective work can reveal who engineered a virus”

It’s become a time-honored tradition in certain segments of American society: two families cross-reference their respective calendars to find a spot free of school or “Playdates are ruining all the fun”

“David is a great transplant surgeon. Five of his patients need new parts — one needs a heart, the others need, respectively, liver, stomach, spleen, “Is it okay to harvest pig kidneys to save human lives?”

After a major setback on a historic package of climate legislation, President Joe Biden and Democrats in Congress are scrambling to find other ways to “Biden’s Plan B for the climate crisis, explained”

Four executives from Big Oil — “the richest, most powerful industry in human history,” according to environmentalist Bill McKibben — testified before Congress on Thursday “What the oil industry still won’t tell us”

Corporations and countries around the world are promising to eliminate their contributions to climate change. But many of their targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions “Are “net-zero” climate targets just hot air?”

Almost every country in the world signed the 2015 Paris climate agreement, a monumental accord that aimed to limit global warming. But it was forged “The fate of the planet will be negotiated in Glasgow, Scotland”

As the White House revealed Thursday, President Joe Biden has stripped a lot from his Build Back Better framework to placate moderate Democrats. Free community “Biden’s $27 billion bet on forests”

More than 28 million children across the US are now eligible to receive Covid-19 vaccinations, a step that could relieve anxiety for families, bring more “Covid-19 vaccines for young kids are a big step toward a new normal”