Habitat loss is the biggest threat to the world’s animals. Without improvements in crop yields, thousands of species could see much of their habitat lost to farmland.

Depression is the most common mental health condition. What do we know about its symptoms, severity and how these are measured?

Most of the world’s farmers are smallholders. They are also often the poorest. How much of the world’s food do they produce?

Many of the world’s pollinator insects are in decline. What does this mean for global food production?

We live in a world in which 10 children die every minute.

Every year, around 8 million people die prematurely as a result of smoking. But there are things we can do to prevent this.

A healthy, nutritious diet is much more expensive than a calorie sufficient one. As a result, three billion people cannot afford a healthy diet.

About 3 billion people in the world do not have access to modern energy sources for cooking and heating their homes. They are suffering from indoor air pollution as a consequence and millions die every year.

All countries pledged to provide safe water and sanitation for everyone by 2030. How far are we from reaching these targets?

How do policies on childhood vaccinations vary across the world?

If we want to meet our global climate targets we need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from food. What options do we have?

Explore our new data explorer covering yields and yield gaps for a range of crops across the world.

Why have we made it our mission to publish the “research and data to make progress against the world’s largest problems”?

To transition towards low-carbon energy systems we need low-cost energy storage. Battery costs have been falling quickly.

We are paying a price for fossil fuels, but that price is not paid by those that burn the fossil fuels – we need to change that.

Beneath the popular index, the Living Planet database helps us understand where and what animals are deeply threatened, and what animals are thriving.

The goods and services that we all need are not just there – they need to be produced – and growth means that their quality and quantity increases.

Our free, open-access dataset tracking global COVID-19 Vaccinations has been published in Nature Human Behaviour.

Explore the research on coral reefs. This is part of our latest collection of work on Biodiversity and Wildlife.

Which countries and rivers emit the most plastic to the ocean? What does this mean for solutions to tackle plastic pollution?

Explore our new collection of work on the topic of biodiversity and wildlife.