There have been 63,000 more deaths in the UK since the start of the coronavirus pandemic than there were during the same period last year, the Continuous Mortality Investigation (CMI) has confirmed.
None of the world's 75 largest asset managers have a dedicated policy on biodiversity loss, despite the issue being ranked among the biggest challenges facing the world today.
The risk of death among COVID-19 patients on ventilators has been cut by a third using the widely-available steroid dexamethasone in a trial led by scientists from the University of Oxford.
The growth rate of India's general insurance industry is set to more than halve this year as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, analysis by GlobalData suggests.
The coronavirus pandemic could lead to a “sharp rise” in antimicrobial resistance due to the widespread use of antibiotics as treatments, microbiologists from Queen's University Belfast have warned.
There has now been a sustained decline in the number of excess deaths recorded in the UK during the COVID-19 pandemic, analysis by the Continuous Mortality Investigation (CMI) has found.
Ransomware cyber attacks increased by 25% worldwide in the first quarter of this year compared to the final three months of 2019, based on incidents reported to Beazley Breach Response (BBR) Services.
Competition from clean technologies and tough government climate policies could see the fossil fuel industry's profits slashed by two-thirds over the next two decades, a new study has found.
