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illustration of hands playing What-A-Mole with global threats.

Global threats don’t happen in silos. They shouldn’t be managed separately, either.

By Rumtin Sepasspour, Courtney Tee | Disruptive Technologies

A ‘plague’ comes before the fall: lessons from Roman history

By Colin Elliott | Biosecurity

The best multimedia stories of 2023

By Thomas Gaulkin, Erik English | Climate Change, Disruptive Technologies, Multimedia, Nuclear Risk, What We’re Reading

Rangers in protective suits examine seabirds.

How the ecological crisis of bird flu could become a human pandemic

By Georgios Pappas | Biosecurity