Amazon dieback”, as this grim scenario is known, is just one example of what climate scientists refer to as a tipping point: ...

The other problem is that they sound like good news. Negative feedbacks face the opposite problem. In a negative feedback, ...

Pollution was real, he argued, but he was “extremely pro-business” and, in fact, some environmentalists were “enemies of the system”. President Donald Trump is using a version of that argument to ...

Treasurers can take comfort from the size of their funds—Harvard’s comes to $53bn, for instance—and the fact that, over the ...

T HE TIMING could not have been worse. Days before a crucial summit in Alaska between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, ...

The more China uses its rare-earths weapon, therefore, the weaker it will become. Time and again, enterprise and ingenuity ...

In Britain HPV causes about 3,500 cases of cervical cancer each year and 900 deaths. A vaccination programme that inoculates ...

G LEN POWELL, a Hollywood heartthrob, likes 1x listening speed: “I want to hear people talk at a normal human rate.” Bowen Yang, an American comedian, prefers his narration fast and loose—“You can ...

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