Climate Change

The fate of the planet hangs in the balance as nations struggle to find a way to curb our carbon emissions and slow disastrous global warming. Get to grips with the key issues and developments here.

Wildfire

Wildfires are 90% the fault of careless or malicious people, and we're fanning the flames further with global warming and urban sprawl into the countryside. Fire-prone parts of the world such as ours are battling bigger, hotter and wilder fires, some on so devastating a scale a new term has been coined for them: megafires.

2010

As the world prepares to descend on South Africa for the much anticipated 2010 Soccer World Cup, we take a look at some of the key health issues – from soccer injuries to the latest research on professional sports.