In a child psychiatric ward of a major hospital in Jakarta, a 15-year-old teenager sits silently, staring at a white wall. He has stopped attending school for three months. Every time his phone is taken away, his body trembles, his breath quickens, and his eyes fill with panic. Doctors call this co…
In Kabwe, Zambia, the soil still gleams faintly grey. Children play where their grandparents once worked — near one of the world’s largest lead mines, long shuttered but never cleaned. Decades after Anglo American ended its operations, local residents have taken the company to court in South Africa…
When the Earth warms, life adapts — but not always for the better. The same warmth that extends growing seasons and shifts ocean currents also awakens pathogens, expands mosquito habitats, and alters the fragile equilibrium between humans and microbes.  As temperatures climb, diseases that were once…
There is a quiet kind of miracle unfolding in laboratories across the United States — a tiny vial of medicine that needs to be injected only twice a year, yet holds the power to halt one of humanity’s most relentless viruses.  The drug, <i> lenacapavir</i> , approved by the FDA in June 2025, is more than a n…