Umair Irfan
Former correspondent
Latest articles by Umair Irfan
5- to 11-year-olds are now eligible for the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine. That could be a game changer for families and schools.
Here’s what you need to know about COP26, the high-stakes climate conference that starts on October 31.
The US, Australia, Japan, and even Saudi Arabia are aiming for net-zero. Does it mean anything?
Insurers are getting rocked by climate disasters. They’re also shaping how we prepare for the next one.
The pharma giant said its new antiviral drug cut hospitalizations in half for at-risk Covid-19 patients.
Klaus Hasselmann, Syukuro Manabe, and Giorgio Parisi shaped climate change models and our understanding of the future.
The risks of massive wildfires are growing, but we have tools to curb them.
These five climate scenarios show us what the future of the planet could look like.
Extreme heat, dryness, wind, and ample fuel are driving enormous wildfires into new areas.
Rising seas, a warming world, and Covid-19 are shaping the impact of “one of the strongest storms to ever hit Louisiana.”
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