A pneumonia outbreak with unknown etiology was reported in Wuhan, Hubei province,
China, in December 2019, associated with the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market. The …

Amazonian biodiversity is increasingly threatened due to the weakening of policies for
combating deforestation, especially in Brazil. Loss of animal and plant species, many not yet …

Problem, research strategy, and findings: The impact of density on emerging highly
contagious infectious diseases has rarely been studied. In theory, dense areas lead to more …

We present a global atlas of 4,728 metagenomic samples from mass-transit systems in 60
cities over 3 years, representing the first systematic, worldwide catalog of the urban …

Tracking antibiotic consumption patterns over time and across countries could inform
policies to optimize antibiotic prescribing and minimize antibiotic resistance, such as setting …

Pandemics are large-scale outbreaks of infectious disease that can greatly increase
morbidity and mortality over a wide geographic area and cause significant economic, social …

Converging data would indicate the existence of possible relationships between climate
change, environmental pollution and epidemics/pandemics, such as the current one due to …

With rapidly changing ecology, urbanization, climate change, increased travel and fragile
public health systems, epidemics will become more frequent, more complex and harder to …

Ebola virus causes a severe haemorrhagic fever in humans with high case fatality and
significant epidemic potential. The 2013–2016 outbreak in West Africa was unprecedented …

Cities, contributing more than 75% of global carbon emissions, are at the heart of climate
change mitigation. Given cities' heterogeneity, they need specific low-carbon roadmaps …