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.
Over the last 800,000 years, pre-industrial atmospheric CO2 content remained below 280 ppm, but it has now risen to the 2016 global average of 403.3 ppm.
Human’s impact on nature is unmistakable, from vast swaths of lost forest to heaps of trash on beaches. Before these species go extinct one photographer is trying to document these species facing the struggle before it’s too late.
In the past decades, large areas of forest in Sumatra, Indonesia, have been replaced by cash crops like oil palm and rubber plantations. New research shows that these changes in land use increase temperatures in the region.
Pollution kills more people each year than wars, disasters and hunger, also causing huge economic damage, a study says. Almost half the total deaths occur in just two countries.
E-cigarettes appear to trigger unique immune responses as well as the same ones that cigarettes trigger that can lead to lung disease, according to a new research.
The total flying insect biomass decreased by more than 75 percent over 27 years in protected areas, according to a study .
30 years on ozone hole healing is proving painfully slow. New discoveries about chemicals not covered by the Montreal protocol are raising fears that full recovery could be postponed into the 22nd century — or possibly even prevented altogether.
According to the World Wildlife Fund said unseasonably extensive amounts of sea ice around the colony forced the adult penguins to travel further than normal to forage for food. The babies did not survive the parents' journeys.
