Fallout from increased emissions linked to president’s ‘America First’ policies expected to most affect those in poor, hot countries

Biggest analysis of its kind finds millions are dying each year from combined effects of failure to tackle climate crisis

The recent discovery of mosquitoes in Iceland is just one way in which the climate crisis is creating health hazards. A new scientific report says these risks are unprecedented.

The importance of Omega-3 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids (Omega-3-PUFA) in human health has been difficult to evaluate. Various studies have evaluated multiple health outcomes, and the results have been ...

Crop wild relatives are our crops’ living ancestors. They underpin our food security in a warming world – but they’re also under threat.

The actor on nailing Rupert Murdoch’s accent, working with Stanley Kubrick and missing old-fashioned dinner parties Your new film The Partisan is about spies during the second world war. Would you make a good spy? I honestly believe I would be a total disaster, because I do love to gossip. I would be going: “You know that guy? I think he’s working for the Russians.” I went to Russia in 1990 to make this wonderful film, The Assassin of the Tsar, and it was still very closed, even though it was glasnost and Gorbachev was in power. I was driving with my wife to the next location to Vladimir, which is an old capital of Russia, and we went past these missile silos. I turned to my wife and said: “If we’d have been doing this a year ago, we’d have been shot for seeing this. I think they’re all pointed at America.” Continue reading...

A few thoughts about death and being a doctor, recorded while waiting for an emergency case at 5am.