Bill Gates promised Africa a farm productivity revolution. The data show sluggish yield growth and rising hunger.

Tracking the Trump administration’s favors to the pesticide industry

Over the past 18 months, the Trump administration has delivered a string of victories to the pesticide industry that could reshape pesticide use and public health protections for years to come. 

Big Tobacco promotes e-cigarettes, undermines health protections through U.S. business groups worldwide 

Tobacco companies remain embedded in influential U.S. business groups worldwide, giving the industry a discreet and powerful channel to weaken regulation and undermine public health, a new study finds.

Newly Declassified 2020 Intelligence Assessment Found Wuhan Lab’s Conditions Were Ripe For Potential Coronavirus Release

A newly declassified Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory assessment from May 2020 concluded that all of the conditions necessary for an accidental release of a laboratory-modified coronavirus were present at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China before the COVID-19 pandemic erupted. 

Newly released U.S. intelligence memo reveals plans for independent COVID origins study

Newly released intelligence records show that as recently as January 2025, the U.S. intelligence community planned to create an independent panel of outside experts to study how the COVID-19 pandemic began.

PFAS ‘forever chemicals’ may be linked to multiple sclerosis, especially in women

Women with higher blood levels of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances — known as PFAS or "forever chemicals" — may be more likely to have multiple sclerosis (MS), according to a new study.