Setting up the world’s biggest giant tropical forest reserve in the Congo Basin is a step towards conserving the area and ...

USGS scientists Joshua Woda, Karl Haase, Nicholas Gianoutsos, Kalle Jahn and Kristina Gutchess published a geospatial analysis of water-quality threats from ... water wells. A map of locations ...

A rare tropical disease which can spread just by breathing it in has left at least 31 people dead in Queensland. Some 221 cases of melioidosis have been reported so far this year, which is up by ...

as US funding cuts cast doubt over the country’s capacity to handle multiple disease threats. Eswatini’s ministry of health says it is operating in “Alert Mode” to encourage vigilance and early ...

Investigators detected the microbe in water in Texas and Puerto Rico and soil in Mississippi, making it a public health risk, according to a recent report in Emerging Infectious Diseases ...

More than 23 million residents across a swath of the southern and central United States are under threat Friday as a potent storm system brings the potential for damaging thunderstorms.

Saturday turned out to be a nicer day than expected, despite a threat of isolated strong-to-severe thunderstorms. After a wet Friday, that even produced a weak tornado in far southern New Jersey ...

USGS scientists Joshua Woda, Karl Haase, Nicholas Gianoutsos, Kalle Jahn and Kristina Gutchess published a geospatial analysis of water-quality threats from orphan wells this month in the journal ...

leaving fewer specialists to respond to animal disease outbreaks. The departures come as the country battles its longest-ever outbreak of bird flu and faces the encroachment of New World ...

Among the five hepatitis viruses, hepatitis B, hepatitis C and hepatitis D usually cause chronic disease, liver cancer ... and poses a public health threat, especially among at-risk individuals.

Amid rising measles cases, vaccine skepticism despite a preponderance of safety evidence, and on the heels of the most severe flu season in 15 years, infectious disease threats are urgent and ...

Covering an area of over 100 000km² — roughly seven times larger than Serengeti National Park — these maps reveal the largest known land mammal migration on Earth, also known as the Great ...