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Rome's umbrella pine trees are under threat from a tiny insect called the pine tortoise scale. Photo: AFP

Insect invaders threaten Rome’s iconic pines

The insects, originally from North America, can kill trees already weakened by the urban environment within just two or three years, experts told AFP

Gouranga Gopal Das

Fighting the pandemic: Disease, de-globalisation and digital optimism

Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, wears a Washington Nationals protective mask while arriving to a House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis hearing in Washington, DC, US, July 31, 2020. Erin Scott/Pool via REUTERS

'There is no doubt that we are gonna have outbreaks in the future': Fauci

PHOTO: MD ALI ASRAF BHUYAN

How to stay safe during floods

Illustrations depicting smallpox from the Imperially Commissioned Golden Mirror of Medical Learning, published in 1742. Illustration: Foreign Policy/Austrian national library

Empire’s little helper

People wearing face masks walk out of Zhongguancun subway station following the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) outbreak, in Beijing, China April 27, 2020/ Reuters

Coronavirus chronicle

China to reform disease prevention system

5 die in 4 districts with fever, cold

5 die in 4 districts with fever, cold

File Photo: UNB

Cold-related diseases affect 4,196 people in 24 hours

Photo :Collected

Winter diseases: 49 die, 2.26 lakh fall ill in one and a half months

Wind patterns are left in the ice pack that covers the Arctic Ocean north of Prudhoe Bay, Alaska March 18, 2011. Reuters/Lucas Jackson

Shrinking Arctic ice linked to spread of deadly animal virus

Is Bangladesh prepared for a major disease outbreak?

Is Bangladesh prepared for a major disease outbreak?