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COVID-19

Maryland national guard stockpile

How to reduce both nuclear and pandemic threats after COVID-19

By James E. Doyle | Biosecurity, Nuclear Weapons

World War II ad for penicillin

What the development of penicillin tells us about developing a coronavirus vaccine

By Dan Drollette Jr | Analysis, Biosecurity, Special Topics

closeup of coronavirus through microscope

Let evidence, not talk radio, determine whether the outbreak started in a lab

By Ali Nouri | Biosecurity, Opinion

coronavirus as seen through scanning electron microscope

The coronavirus pandemic: A people’s first draft of history

By Dan Drollette Jr | Analysis, Biosecurity, Special Topics

Demand for coal in largest decline since end of World War II

By Jillian Ambrose | Climate Change

Coronavirus: Letting bad science slip through the cracks?

By Jackie Flynn Mogensen | Analysis, Biosecurity

Julian Perry Robinson

Julian Perry Robinson, top chemical and biological arms control expert, dies of coronavirus

By Nicholas A. Sims | Biosecurity

launch of atmospheric sampling balloon at South Pole

Keeping climate research going, despite coronavirus

By Maddie Stone | Biosecurity, Climate Change

The author during his time as a firefighter

Climate change and the coronavirus are upending the way we fight wildfires

By Don Whittemore | Biosecurity, Climate Change, Opinion

Declaring victory too soon: Lessons from Europe’s different responses to coronavirus

By Eileen Choffnes | Analysis, Biosecurity

The departure hall of Terminal 7 at JFK airport on March 15 in New York City. Frustrated passengers complained of hours-long lines, crowded and unsanitary conditions and general disarray in the system for screening people for symptoms of the virus.(Photo by Johannes EISELE/AFP via Getty Images)

The Commissioned Corps was created to stop plagues at the US border. Why hasn’t it been used at airports during the pandemic?

By Laura H. Kahn | Biosecurity, Columnists

The Fairweather Mountains and Margerie Glacier at Glacier Bay National Park in Alaska

Heal the Earth: flatten other curves

By Dawn Stover | Biosecurity, Climate Change, Columnists