Satellite photography of the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut shows block after block of destroyed buildings. Satellite radar provides a different view – a systematic look at the destruction of the whole city.

Arable land has been destroyed, as have food production sites. But even before the current operation in Gaza, Palestinians there suffered high rates of food insecurity.

Researchers must track everything from bomb making or jet fuel burning to the carbon cost of post-conflict rebuilding.

War is often described as long periods of waiting punctuated by short periods of terror – for the environment, the reverse is true.

Shelling may have led to the killing of 7,000 noctule bats in the city of Kharkiv alone

Tuberculosis is a preventable and curable disease, yet before the pandemic, it killed more people than any other infectious disease.

The war in Ukraine has led to the destruction of scientific infrastructure, caused many Ukrainian researchers to leave the country and disrupted the work of those who have stayed.

Look for significant progress in 2023 in two key areas, writes a veteran of international climate policy.

Since antiquity people have harnessed sound as a weapon, and the practice continues – in new high-tech ways – today.