Even as nations around the world are quietly backing away from the Paris Climate Accord, Pope Francis has called for a prompt and effective response to the “threat posed by climate change” in a message to a Rome summit on water and climate.

In a major new study, the Lancet journal has revealed that pollution-related diseases were responsible for an estimated 9 million premature deaths in 2015, or some 15 times more than from all wars and other forms of violence combined.

The tragic death of a 4-year-old girl from malaria in northern Italy on Monday has reinvigorated demands for tighter immigration controls from right-wing politicians.

A new study showing rapid adaptation of harmful bacteria able to resist even the sternest antibiotics has led a number of scientists to warn of an imminent “post-antibiotic era” when current medicine will find itself unable to treat many common

Climate change is going to kill you — more horribly, painfully and slowly than anything from your darkest nightmares. It’s worse than cancer, worse than giant scorpions, worse than the flesh-eating horror of necrotising fasciitis….