The Converging Risks Lab of the Council on Strategic Risks has identified ecological disruption as a "major and underappreciated security threat" and calls on the U.S. to reboot its national security architecture and doctrine to better respond to this evolving threat landscape. Keep Reading
The virus that causes COVID-19 probably jumped from animals to humans and is “extremely unlikely” to have come from a laboratory, investigators say as they explore possible links to frozen food and whether the virus first emerged outside Wuhan. Keep Reading
Even this flu season "was highly unusual in that both strains A and B overlapped for much longer than normal." Keep Reading
The review found progress but some critical steps remain, including obtaining approvals to work with high-consequence pathogens such as foot-and-mouth disease, and physically transferring pathogens to the facility. Keep Reading
COVID-19 is the latest, but not the last, society-altering impact nature will have on geopolitics. If the United States does not take bold action now, the obituary of American global leadership will be penned in parallel with the one for the planet. Keep Reading
The report identifies seven trends driving the increasing emergence of zoonotic diseases, including a growing demand for animal protein, unsustainable farming practices and the global climate crisis. Keep Reading
The project will establish a global network to help national laboratories in monitoring, surveillance, early detection and control of animal and zoonotic diseases such as COVID-19, Ebola, avian influenza and Zika. Keep Reading
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has opened a new facility to address diseases like COVID-19 as well as food safety and climate change. Keep Reading