North Dakota has found a controversial use for federal coronavirus relief money: using it to fund fracking. The state legislature voted Wednesday to reallocate million in pandemic relief to pay 0,000 grants to oil companies to do fracking work on 80 incomplete wells, Inforum reported. “This is like a taxpayer bailout to the oil industry […]
Almost 300,000 more Americans have died during the first ten months of the coronavirus pandemic than would be expected in an average year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported Tuesday. The agency found that there were an estimated 299,028 excess deaths in the U.S. between Jan. 26 and Oct. 3. That’s a […]
By Teri Schultz Europe is in a panic over the second wave of COVID-19, with infection rates sky-rocketing and GDP plummeting. Belgium has just announced it will no longer test asymptomatic people, even if they’ve been in contact with someone who has the disease, because the backlog in processing is overwhelming. Other European countries are […]
Scientists at top universities searching for a coronavirus cure have just gotten help from an unexpected source: a 14-year-old from Texas. Anika Chebrolu of Frisco, Texas has been named “America’s Top Young Scientist” for identifying a molecule that can selectively bind to the spike protein of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, in hopes of developing a cure […]
President Trump attacked the nation’s top infectious disease specialist in a call with campaign staffers that several reporters were allowed to listen to on Monday. In the call, Trump said that Dr. Anthony S. Fauci was “a disaster.” He added that despite the evidence that coronavirus cases are once again rising across the country, the […]
Jacinda Ardern, the New Zealand Prime Minister who has emerged as a leader on the climate crisis and the coronavirus pandemic, has won a second term in office. Ardern’s Labour Party secured a historic victory in New Zealand’s general election Saturday, earning 49 percent of the vote and an estimated 64 out of 120 parliamentary […]
By Priyanka Jaisinghani COVID-19, “stay-at-home” orders and enforced physical distancing has made us more dependent on digital when it comes to connection and communication at both a local and global level. In the early months of the pandemic, marginalized communities were disproportionately affected and the realities of a widening inequality gap were apparent. What was […]
The UN World Food Program (WFP) said on Tuesday that will need to raise $6.8 billion over the next six months to avert famine triggered by the coronavirus pandemic crisis. “We’ve got a lot more money to raise to make certain we avert famine,” David Beasley, executive director of the WFP, said at a conference […]
Climate change has spurred close to a doubling of natural disasters in the last 20 years, and world leaders are failing to prevent Earth from evolving into “an uninhabitable hell” for millions, the United Nations warned on Monday. At least 7,348 major disasters had occurred between 2000 and 2019, claiming 1.23 million lives, affecting 4.2 […]
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