Maeve Cullinan

Ben Farmer, Maeve Cullinan Congo's runaway Ebola outbreak is doubling in size every 20 days, according to the United Nations humanitarian chief, putting it on track to soon be the largest ever seen.

H5N1 bird flu has reached Australia's shores and is threatening to infect some of the country's most unique wildlife.

“It's been relentless, an immense number of calls,” says Yvonne Woodhams, control room commander at the London Fire Brigade's headquarters on the morning of what turned out to be the hottest day of the year so far.

“It’s been relentless, an immense number of calls,” says Yvonne Woodhams, control room commander at the London Fire Brigade’s headquarters on the morning of what turned out to be the hottest day of th...

As the risk of ‘fire weather’ increases, humans are learning to adapt to an ominous new normal

The great British fry-up appears to have been implicated in the Salmonella outbreak sweeping the UK , with investigators pointing to eggs served

H5N1 has been detected on a US mink farm for the first time, igniting fears the infected animals could present a human pandemic risk.

Mosquitoes capable of spreading diseases such as dengue, yellow fever and Zika virus have been found breeding in Britain for the first time.

Global hunger poses a direct threat to Britain's national security, and tackling it should be a government priority, a new report from the London School of Economics has warned.

“The future looks rosy for West Nile virus and other mosquito-borne viruses that follow it to the New World,” wrote the science writer Carl Zimmer in his 2011 book ‘Planet of Viruses'.