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Gaming climate change
Can a role playing game improve climate negotiation outcomes?
Adapting California
Living with the threat of fires and earthquakes
Australia’s extreme fire season
2019 was Australia’s hottest year on record, a major factor behind continued bushfires
Mount Taal volcano
Why Mount Taal volcano near Manila produces so much ash and lightning
Wuhan Coronavirus
What science can tell us about the emergence of a new virus in China
Understanding the Wuhan coronavirus
Analysis of the impact of the new virus.
Coronavirus, prospects for treatment?
Could untried drugs developed for Ebola stop the virus?
CoVid-19: Mapping the outbreak
A new public tool allows anyone to see where the virus is spreading.
Monitoring Covid-19, harvests and space junk
Monitoring spread of Covid-19, harvests in Africa from space, and space junk
Tracking coronavirus spread
More new cases of Covid-19 are now outside China than inside - how can we map the virus?
Australia’s fires - fuelled by climate change
A study shows fires were at least 30% worse due to mankind’s influence on the climate.
Covid -19 how infectious is it really?
As numbers continue to rise we look at pattern of transmission & prospects for treatments
Covid -19, are you carrying the virus?
Research from Italy and China, shows many people have the coronavirus but no symptoms
The science of social distancing
Research shows most important measure in limiting spread of Covid 19 is social distancing
Covid 19 – The fightback in Africa begins
As cases spread in Nigeria, can lessons from Ebola counter covid 19 ?
The impossibility of social distancing and even handwashing in crowded refugee camps
Italy, getting Covid 19 under control
Tentative steps to relax the lockdown
Presidents and pandemics
Why they don’t mix
Ebola drug offers hope for Covid-19
Early trials suggest Remdesivir can aid recovery
Covid -19 new hope from blood tests
Research from New York shows how our own immune response is responding to Covid 19
Loosening lockdown
Understanding which situations pose the highest risk for virus transmission is key.
Brazil’s Covid chaos
Numbers of cases and deaths may be much higher than official figures show
The medical complexity of Covid -19
Understanding viral damage to the brain and heart
Food security, locusts and Covid -19
Efforts to irradiate locust swarms and save harvests continue despite the pandemic
Covid -19 hope for severe cases
A readily available drug prevents some deaths, and others may also be useful
Record high temperatures – in the Arctic
Siberia has seen 38 degrees Celsius, 100 degrees Fahrenheit
Covid-19 and children
Why a minority become gravely ill is still a mystery
Rwanda’s game changing coronavirus test
African scientists have developed a reliable, quicker and cheaper mass testing method
How long do Covid-19 antibodies last?
New research on how long our defences against the coronavirus last.
Making a Covid-19 vaccine for two billion people
The challenge of making two billion Covid-19 vaccine doses within the year.
NASA rover heads for Mars ancient lake
NASA 2020 rover launched on fresh search for life on Mars
