Black children are almost twice as likely to be physically restrained in the emergency department compared with White children, according to a research letter published this week in JAMA Pediatrics. Use of physical…
The temporary reduction in carbon emissions caused by global COVID-19 lockdowns did not slow the relentless advance of climate change. Greenhouse gas concentrations are at record levels, and the planet…
The ozone layer – a fragile shield of gas that protects the Earth from the harmful rays of the sun – is “on the road to recovery”, the UN chief…
A series of camel sculptures carved into rock faces in Saudi Arabia are likely to be the oldest large-scale animal reliefs in the world, a study says. When the carvings…
Nearly every nation is coming up short — most of them far short — in their efforts to fight climate change, and the world is unlikely to hold warming to…
Casualties caused by lethal cluster munitions continued to increase in 2020, despite progress in efforts to eliminate these weapons, a UN-backed civil society report said on Wednesday. Children represented nearly half (44…
More than a million kids returned to New York City classrooms Monday, marking the end to remote learning. CBS News' Meg Oliver explains how the nation's largest school district is…
Our wellbeing is inextricably linked to our childhoods, which in turn is influenced by the lives of our parents and grandparents If there is one patient who has opened my…
May 1945. World War II ends and the concentration camps are liberated. Thousands of Holocaust survivors are rescued. On a foundation of loss, torture and cruelty, they are left to confront…
Rising temperatures threaten ‘catastrophic harm to health that will be impossible to reverse,’ editors of 220 journals from around the world say Editors of 220 leading medical, nursing and public-health…