April 1, 2021 0 Scientist: Kyoto’s Earliest Cherry Blooms in 1,200 Years Point to Climate Change The famous pink cherry blossoms of Kyoto reached full bloom this year on March 26, the earliest date in the 12 centuries since ...
March 31, 2021 0 CDC: COVID-19 Third Largest Cause of US Deaths in 2020 The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported Wednesday that COVID-19 was the third leading cause of death ...
March 31, 2021 0 Race to Produce COVID Vaccine May Cause Measles Jabs Shortage World Health Organization experts fear the race to produce large quantities of COVID-19 vaccine could cut into the supply of ...
March 31, 2021 0 Russia Registers Vaccine to Protect Animals from COVID-19 Russia says it registered the world’s first vaccine for animals against the COVID-19 virus on Wednesday — with government ...
March 31, 2021 0 Forest Losses Increased Again in 2020 The world lost a Netherlands-sized area of mature tropical forests in 2020, the second year in a row of worsening losses, ...
March 31, 2021 0 COVID Pandemic Has Big Effect in Small Nation of eSwatini Eddie Simelane is a patient. Every two months, this 46-year-old, HIV-positive father of four wakes up early to line up at a ...
March 30, 2021 0 US, 13 Other Nations Concerned About WHO COVID Origins Report The United States and 13 other nations issued a statement Tuesday raising “shared concerns” about the newly released World ...
March 30, 2021 0 WHO, EU, World Leaders Support Pandemic Treaty Leaders of the European Union, (EU) the World Health Organization (WHO) and 23 countries expressed support Tuesday for an ...
March 30, 2021 0 3 Female Polio Vaccinators Killed in Afghanistan Unknown gunmen have shot dead three female anti-polio workers in Afghanistan, one of the two countries in the world along with ...
March 30, 2021 0 World Health Organization Expected to Release Report on COVID-19 Origins Tuesday A new report to be released Tuesday reveals details about the origins of the COVID-19 virus. The pandemic was most likely ...
March 30, 2021 0 Biden Boosts Offshore Wind Energy, Wants to Power 10 Million Homes The Biden administration is moving to sharply increase offshore wind energy along the East Coast, saying Monday it is taking ...
March 29, 2021 0 WHO Report: COVID-19 Likely First Jumped Into Humans from Animals A joint World Health Organization-China study on the origins of COVID-19 says that transmission of the virus from bats to humans ...
March 29, 2021 0 Biden: 90% of US Adults Will Be Eligible for COVID Vaccine by April 19 Nine out of 10 adults in the United States will be eligible for a coronavirus vaccine three weeks from now, President Joe Biden ...
March 29, 2021 0 ‘All Hypotheses’ on the Table Regarding COVID-19 Origins, WHO Chief Says The World Health Organization’s (WHO) director-general says despite leaked reports about the results of the agency-sponsored ...
March 29, 2021 0 Plastic Pollution Packs the Surface of Bolivian Lake It can take hundreds of years for plastic containers to break down, if ever at all. Their presence reshapes entire ecosystems, ...
March 28, 2021 0 Facebook Freezes Venezuelan President’s Page Over COVID Misinformation Facebook has frozen Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s page, according to a spokesperson for the social media giant, because ...
March 28, 2021 0 US Woman who Lost Child to Brain Tumor Gives Birth at Age 57 A New Hampshire woman who lost her 13-year-old daughter to a brain tumor in 2016 has now given birth to a son — at age ...
March 28, 2021 0 Israelis Gather for Passover, Celebrating Freedom from Virus A year ago, Giordana Grego’s parents spent Passover at home in Israel, alone but grateful that they had escaped the worst ...
March 27, 2021 0 Pakistan Struggles to Contain Third COVID-19 Wave Pakistan is struggling to contain a third wave of coronavirus infections, reporting close to 4,500 new cases in the last 24 ...
March 27, 2021 0 Spurred by Lockdown, Spain Gives 4-day Week a Try After years of waiting tables, Danae De Vries is one step closer to achieving her lifetime dream of becoming a theater ...
March 27, 2021 0 Shots in Little Arms: COVID-19 Vaccine Testing Turns to Kids The 9-year-old twins did not flinch as each received test doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine — and then a sparkly bandage to ...
March 27, 2021 0 US Vaccination Effort Quickens as COVID Cases Rise Again As cases of the coronavirus continue to rise in the United States, officials are racing to open up vaccine eligibility in the ...
March 26, 2021 0 China Outlines COVID-origin Findings, Ahead of WHO Report Chinese officials briefed diplomats Friday on the ongoing research into the origin of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, ahead ...
March 26, 2021 0 WHO Urges World Community to Donate COVID Vaccines to Poorer Countries The head of the World Health Organization on Friday urged the global community to donate COVID-19 vaccines to poorer countries, ...