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- Health
Posted on: 2026-06-02
Infectious disease outbreaks: a magnet for conspiracy theories

Highly mediatized disease outbreaks like COVID-19 and hantavirus are invariably plagued by conspiracy theories alleging that they are a hoax or planned. Why are these conspiracy theories so appealing and what makes people vulnerable to them? We discuss these topics in detail in this Insight article.

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- Climate
Posted on: 2025-09-15
Major wine regions could disappear from global warming, Europe to be hit especially hard

Wine grapes can only be grown in specific conditions – climate change is affecting which regions are suitable, and some current regions will likely be lost.
- Climate
Posted on: 2025-06-27
Cutting emissions today limits future climate impacts, but certain changes are ‘locked in’ due to past CO2 emissions

Sea levels will rise this century and remain elevated for thousands of years due to our past emissions. Ice sheets, glaciers, and ocean temperatures will also face irreversible changes.
- Climate
Posted on: 2025-05-28
Human-driven climate change largely responsible for last 50 years of worsening fire weather in Western North America, new study shows

Fire weather has been worsened by human-driven climate change in Western North America for 50 years, new study finds. Recent paper suggests that human-driven climate change contributed 81-188% to the observed increase in fire weather in that region.