He made us feel better.

A century ago, Catholic nuns from Philadelphia recalled what it was like to tend to the needy and the sick during the great influenza pandemic of 1918.

Does the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century Romantic notion of solitude offer a lesson for those practicing social distancing?

A seaweed-only diet seems to curb methane emissions in sheep on a tiny island in Scotland.

A number of contemporary Muslim environmentalist groups have been inspired by Koranic verses that stress the conservation of nature.

Diseases know no borders. International cooperation and solidarity, say scholars, are as essential as funding.

The World Health Organization has declared COVID-19 a pandemic. What exactly does that mean?

In the twentieth century, advertisements for a new type of garment for preteen girls sought to define the femininity they sold.

In the Decameron of Boccaccio, friends tell one another stories of love to while away the hours of quarantine.

In the 1800s, sick passengers weren’t blamed for disease epidemics—their baggage and cargo was.