A charred Myanmar hillside is wreathed by flames, spewing ochre smoke that smothers out sunlight in an apocalyptic scene.

It’s a tradition from our ancestors,” said Joseph, a youth leader from Tha Yu village in Myanmar’s eastern Shan state. “It’s the only way we survive,” added Joseph, who goes by only one name. Every ...

Every year between January and April, South-east Asia is plagued by smog from farmers lighting fires to clear land, emitting microscopic PM2.5 pollution that lines the lungs and enters the ...

Gilead Sciences said on Monday a late-stage study showed that its drug Trodelvy used in combination with Merck's immunotherapy Keytruda significantly slowed disease progression in patients with an ...

Edna Bonhomme, author of "A History of the World in Six Plagues," details how pandemics are about more than viruses ...

As a person of Haitian descent, she is acutely aware of the complexities of Black life in a country where racism has its own face, similar but also different from anti-Black racism in the U.S. She ...