Browsing: risk

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is opening crucial gorilla habitats and pristine forests to bids for oil and gas drilling, with plans to carve…

Surrogates have a greater chance of being newly diagnosed with a mental illness during and after pregnancy than women who carry their own offspring, researchers have…

Close to 900 million people across the Global South live in densely packed urban slums, which often sit in floodplains. A new study finds that one…

NASA Staff Rebuke White House Cuts in Rare Public DissentA declaration of dissent from past and present NASA employees warns that science and safety are at…

The British Medical Association (BMA) has said the NHS plan for dealing with forthcoming resident doctors’ strikes will put patient safety at risk.Up to 50,000 resident…

Exposure to multiple pesticides increases the chances of pregnancy complications compared to exposure to just one pesticide, new peer-reviewed research suggests. The findings raise new questions…

The risk of Russia- and China-backed attacks on undersea cables carrying international internet traffic is likely to rise amid a spate of incidents in the Baltic…

Millions of children worldwide are at growing risk of serious illness and death due to declining infant vaccination rates, experts have warned, while the UK ranks…

A likely by-product of the plans to make drastic changes to jury trials to help deal with the backlog in the criminal courts will be the…

CLIMATEWIRE | Texas knows it isn’t prepared for floods.But the state has done little to address the risk — and the federal government under President Donald…