Amidst alarming rates of deforestation and land degradation, urgent action is needed to safeguard the biodiversity of the world’s forests, according to a new United Nations report, released on Friday.

Recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic must also lead to countries uniting to preserve the natural world, in line with global commitments to achieve a better future for all people and the planet, top officials with the United Nations said on Friday, the International Day for Biological Diversity.

War-torn Yemen’s health system has ‘in effect, collapsed” under the strain of a widening COVID-19 outbreak, with epidemiologists estimating that the virus could spread faster and more widely than in many other countries, the UN warned on Friday.

The COVID-19 pandemic is not only changing where and how we work, it is reinventing job roles — possibly permanently.

With the spread of the novel coronavirus, a domino effect is taking its toll on businesses and employees.

The first supersonic Concorde took off in 1969 — the same year, incidentally, that the first humans landed on the moon.

The COVID-19 pandemic has sparked a global race for mechanical ventilators, the machines that may help some of the most critical patients breathe.

Fuller works in additive manufacturing — what most people call 3D printing — at GE Additive, where he helps to design parts for aircraft, rockets and even race cars that can be printed out of metal in one hair-thin layer at a time.

Coronaviruses are transmitted between animals and humans.

The report was produced by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in partnership, for the first time, with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), and technical input from the UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC).