Sea-level rise, riverbed mining, hydropower damming, and groundwater extraction are making once-rich soil unsuitable for crucial food crop
Sea-level rise and human activities like riverbed mining, hydropower damming, and groundwater extraction draw seawater farther inland to create food instability
Vaccine-derived viruses, which emerge when the weakened viruses in the oral polio vaccine mutate and spread in unvaccinated populations, still occasionally cause outbreaks
The live, weakened bacteria in the vaccine provide long-lasting immunity
Being able to fully digest milk might have given ancient Europeans an evolutionary edge during times of famine and disease
True cost of invasive reptiles and amphibians considered to be higher, as most research focuses mostly on brown tree snake and American bullfrog
Europe is heating up three to four times faster than the rest of the mid-latitudes
'It's really just confirming how exceptional human-caused climate change today and the rapid rates of sea-level rise really are,' one oceanographer says
Diarrhea is the second-leading cause of death among children worldwide
Most live in low- or middle-income countries, especially in Asia
Eruptions at some volcanoes could be predicted weeks or months in advance using new methods, researchers say
Algorithm uses Google search data plus conventional data, such as case counts, vaccination rates
Scientists recovered two genomes of strain of bacterium that causes plague from human remains in two 14th-century cemeteries in Kyrgyzstan
Climate disasters leave women, girls, and gender minorities more vulnerable, new research says
A pan-African research network published the first study on the risks of COVID-19 during pregnancy in sub-Saharan Africa