Soil viruses are highly abundant and have important roles in the regulation of host dynamics
and soil ecology. Climate change is resulting in unprecedented changes to soil ecosystems …

African swine fever (ASF) is a viral hemorrhagic disease with exceptionally high lethality in
domestic pigs and Eurasian wild boar. Over the last decade, ASF has emerged in several …

Wastewater-based monitoring of the spread of the new SARS-CoV-2 virus, also referred to
as wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE), has been suggested as a tool to support …

The Arctic cryosphere is collapsing, posing overlapping environmental risks. In particular,
thawing permafrost threatens to release biological, chemical and radioactive materials that …

Executive Summary The Lancet Countdown is an international, multidisciplinary
collaboration, dedicated to monitoring the evolving health profile of climate change, and …

The discovery of giant viruses, with capsids as large as some bacteria, megabase-range
genomes and a variety of traits typically found only in cellular organisms, was one of the …

Broad-spectrum antiviral platforms that can decrease or inhibit viral infection would alleviate
many threats to global public health. Nonetheless, effective technologies of this kind are still …

Viruses are a major threat to human health, and—given that they spread through social
interactions—represent a costly externality. This article addresses three main questions:(i) …

Viruses and other selfish genetic elements are dominant entities in the biosphere, with
respect to both physical abundance and genetic diversity. Various selfish elements …

The discovery of eukaryotic giant viruses has transformed our understanding of the limits of
viral complexity, but the extent of their encoded metabolic diversity remains unclear. Here …