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Plastic pollution is a scourge of land and seas, and has reached Earth’s remotest regions1. Failure to deal with it could mean exposing ecosystems and people…

On a brisk Monday evening in May 2010, Gordon Brown stood on the steps of Downing Street and delivered one of the most dramatic announcements of…

Ultra-processed foods (UPFs) have more in common with cigarettes than with fruit or vegetables, and require far tighter regulation, according to a new report.UPFs and cigarettes…

1. The air we breatheA flare stack at a refinery in Linden, New Jersey. Photograph: Kena Betancur/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesA range of recent EPA actions may…

Global investment in clean tech reached a record-high $2.3 trillion last year, according to an analysis. Investment grew even in the U.S., despite a sweeping rollback…

A global shortage of nearly a million midwives is leaving pregnant women without the basic care needed to prevent harm, including the deaths of mothers and…

Saks Global, the parent company of the historic luxury department store Saks Fifth Avenue, recently filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The move occurred a little…

Nature, Published online: 20 January 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00102-0The United States is leaving some of the world’s oldest and most influential scientific networks involved in biodiversity research, climate…

January 20, 20261 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAmWorld has entered an era of ‘global water bankruptcy,’ U.N. warnsHumans are using more water than Earth…

The world has entered an era of “global water bankruptcy” that is harming billions of people, a UN report has declared.The overuse and pollution of water…