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 ...

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Back then China tended to punish transgressions by cutting access to its consumer market, such as for Australian wine or ...

Matthew Holehouse, our British political correspondent, on the Conservatives’ changed view of Britain’s labour market ...

Inside South Africa there is growing concern that these policies, while perhaps necessary at first, are no longer fit for ...

But intelligence chiefs, military figures and politicians are newly preoccupied by it. Svalbard’s governor, Lars Fause, says ...