New COVID-19 Variants Are Different – What that Means for Us
New coronavirus variants appearing in Britain, South Africa, Brazil and elsewhere have experts concerned. Not only do they spread ...
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Australia Demands Foreign Travelers Take COVID-19 Test
Beginning Friday, foreign nationals granted special permission to fly to Australia take a COVID-19 test within 72 hours of their ...
Public Face of South Africa’s COVID-19 Fight Dies of Virus Complications
South Africa is mourning the sudden death of Jackson Mthembu, a cabinet minister and presidential adviser who was the public face ...
Climate Change Returns to White House Agenda with Biden Executive Order
President Joe Biden immediately began to reverse the Trump administration’s policies on climate change with one of 17 ...
NASA Makes Progress Toward Deep-space Travel
A NASA-Boeing partnership took its next steps toward deep-space exploration. Two commercial space flight companies reached new ...
China to Gift Pakistan 500K COVID-19 Vaccine Doses
Pakistan said Thursday it will receive half-a-million free doses of China’s Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine by January 31. ...
Fire Rips Through COVID-19 Vaccine Plant in India
Fire erupted Thursday in a building under construction in India that is owned by the world’s largest vaccine maker, but the ...
Chile Approves Emergency Use of Second Coronavirus Vaccine
Chile is getting a new weapon to help in its fight against the spread of the coronavirus.Health regulators approved the emergency ...
Zimbabwe Foreign Minister Dies of COVID-19
Zimbabwe is mourning the death of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Minister Sibusiso Moyo.The government said the ...
WHO: Equitable Vaccine Distribution at ‘Serious Risk’
This week the head of the World Health Organization warns the world is on the brink of a “catastrophic moral failure” ...
Massive Iceberg Continues Losing Mass as it Swirls Around South Georgia Island
A massive Antarctic iceberg that last month threatened a penguin-populated island off the southern tip of South America has since ...
Israel Shares Vaccine Data With Pfizer
Israel has sped ahead of any other country in its vaccine rollout, with more than 2 million people out of a total of 9.3 million ...
Brazil Launches COVID-19 Vaccine Program for Hard Hit Indigenous People
Indigenous people in Brazil’s rainforest are getting their long awaited first doses of a vaccine against the coronavirus, ...
Growing Swarms of Locust Converging on Kenya Threaten Crops
Kenya is under siege again by swarms of maturing desert locusts that threaten to ruin farmers’ crops and pastures. The ...
South Africa Coronavirus Cases Decline, But New Variant Spreading Quickly
South Africa is reporting both good and bad news in the battle against the coronavirus, seeing a decline in confirmed cases along ...
Serbia Becomes First European Country to Use Chinese COVID Vaccine for Mass Rollout
Hundreds of members of Serbia’s military lined up on Tuesday in their camouflage uniforms at an exhibition hall in Belgrade ...
COVID-19 Threat Will Likely Keep Border Closed in 2021, Australia Says
Australia has said it could keep its external borders closed for the rest of 2021 because of the coronavirus. 28,721 coronavirus ...
California First in US to Post More than 3 Million Total COVID-19 Cases
California has become the first U.S state to post more than 3 million total coronavirus cases. As of Tuesday, the western ...
Mexico Temporarily Suspends Pfizer Vaccine Purchases to Help Supply Doses to Poor Countries
Mexico expects to receive its last Pfizer–BioNTech vaccines against COVID-19 Tuesday for the next three weeks as it ...
Powerful 6.4 Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Western Argentina
A powerful 6.4 magnitude earthquake hit San Juan Province in Argentina late Monday night, according to early reports ...
WHO Chief: World on Brink of ‘Moral Failure’ Over COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution
The head of the World Health Organization says the world is “on the brink of a moral catastrophic failure” for its unequal ...
Watchdog Agency: Energy Sector Needs to Decrease Methane Emissions
Oil and gas companies are not doing enough to decrease the release of methane gases, a main source of planet-heating emissions, ...
COVID-19 Deaths Rising In 30 US States Amid Winter Surge
Coronavirus deaths are rising in nearly two-thirds of American states as a winter surge pushes the overall toll toward 400,000 ...
Malawi Announces New Lockdown Measures as COVID Cases Surge
Malawian President Lazarus Chakwera has introduced new lockdown measures to contain a jump in confirmed cases and deaths from ...