How a Louisiana Medical Team Protected COVID-19 Patients as Hurricane Laura Ravaged Lake Charles
Louisianians woke up Wednesday, Aug. 26 to news that Laura would be arriving as a Category 4 hurricane. The storm was ...
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US Declines to Take Part in Global Effort to Develop Global COVID-19 Vaccine
The United States says it will not participate in a global initiative to develop, manufacture and equally distribute a vaccine ...
Under Police Gaze, Climate Protesters Return to Britain’s Streets
After a pandemic hiatus, more than a thousand mask-wearing Extinction Rebellion climate activists marched back onto ...
Strongest Typhoon of 2020 to Hit South Korea, with Another Close Behind
The strongest typhoon of the year is on its way to the Korean Peninsula Wednesday after lashing Japan with strong winds and ...
Several COVID-19 Vaccines Enter Final Testing Stage
Several experimental COVID-19 vaccines have reached the final testing stage, officials involved in their development have ...
Amazon Wins FAA Approval to Deliver Packages by Drone
Getting an Amazon package delivered from the sky is closer to becoming a reality.The Federal Aviation Administration said Monday ...
Botswana Hopes Mysterious Elephant Deaths Are Over; Zimbabwe Records Its First
Botswana says a string of mysterious elephant deaths has come to a halt since June, after at least 281 carcasses were ...
Vietnam Wildlife Trafficking Arrests Rise, After COVID-19 Link to Animals
After scientists determined that the coronavirus likely spread from an animal to a human, there came a flurry of statements from ...
Court Filing Shows 11-3 Big Ten Vote to Postpone Football Season
A court filing disclosed Monday shows Big Ten Conference presidents voted 11-3 to postpone the football season, bringing some ...
Canada Signs 2 More Deals for Coronavirus Vaccines
Canada reached an agreement in principle on Monday with both Novavax and Johnson & Johnson for millions of doses of ...
Canada Signs Deals with Novavax, Johnson & Johnson for Coronavirus Vaccines
Canada reached an agreement in principle on Monday with both Novavax and Johnson & Johnson for millions of doses of ...
US EPA Rolls Back Limits on Wastewater from Coal Plants
The Environmental Protection Agency on Monday rolled back Obama administration rules limiting levels of toxic materials in ...
Scientists See Downsides to Top COVID-19 Vaccines from Russia, China
High-profile COVID-19 vaccines developed in Russia and China share a potential shortcoming: They are based on a common cold virus ...
WMO: Laura by Far the Strongest Hurricane of 2020 Atlantic Season
The former hurricane known as Laura has so far been the most intense and dangerous storm of this year’s Atlantic hurricane ...
New Evidence May Show Where Earth’s Water Came From
A study published this week offers evidence regarding how water originated on Earth, and the clues come from some of the oldest ...
AP Finds Brazil’s Plan to Protect Amazon Has Opposite Effect
In May, facing urgent international demands for action after a string of massive wildfires in the Amazon, Brazilian President ...
Trump Says US Will Have COVID Vaccine Before End of 2020
President Donald Trump said Thursday the U.S. will have a vaccination for the coronavirus “before the end of the ...
5 Former CDC Directors Speak Out About Ending Coronavirus Pandemic
Former directors of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the world-renowned American agency that has long taken ...
Blue Planet: Study Proposes New Origin Theory for Earth’s Water
Water covers 70% of the Earth’s surface and is crucial to life as we know it, but how it got here has been a longstanding ...
WHO Reports 10% ‘Uptick’ in European COVID-19 Cases
The World Health Organization (WHO) says Europe has seen a significant “uptick” in COVID-19 cases in the last two ...
In Remote Himalayan Hamlet, Telemedicine Brings Modern Medicare
he divide between India’s urban and rural healthcare is stark — big cities boast of highly qualified doctors ...
Study Provides Support for Theory That Life on Earth May Have Come From Space
Researchers in Japan have provided more evidence supporting the theory that all life on Earth could have sprung from bacteria ...
CDC Relaxes COVID Testing Guidelines, Alarming Some Health Providers
Health experts are expressing alarm over the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s revision of its coronavirus ...
In Major Milestone, Africa Now Polio-Free
All of Africa has reached a very important milestone. The World Health Organization has declared that the entire continent is now ...