UN hopes meeting will raise $1 billion for key Sahel nations
The U.N. humanitarian chief is hoping a major ministerial meeting Tuesday will not only raise $1 billion for the three countries at the epicenter of a humanitarian crisis in Africa’s Sahel region but also spur leaders to address the underlying causes, including increasing conflict and insecurity, weak governance and a lack of development. Undersecretary-General Mark Lowcock said in an interview...
Top infectious disease expert says 'the next 6 to 12 weeks are going to be the darkest of the entire pandemic'
Dr. Michael Osterholm predicted that by the holidays, the US "will see numbers much, much larger than even the 67,000 to 75,000...
What would happen to you if you never washed your hands
Your hands can pick up a few million germs from the world around you. So what would happen if you just stopped washing your...
Large 2,000-year-old cat discovered in Peru's Nazca lines
The 37m feline figure, said to have been created some 2,000 years ago, escaped notice for...
Plan to retrieve Titanic radio spurs debate on human remains
No one has found human remains, according to the company that owns the salvage rights. Lawyers for the U.S. government have raised that question in an ongoing court battle to block the planned expedition. “Fifteen hundred people died in that wreck,” said Paul Johnston, curator of maritime history at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American...
SpaceX launches another 60 Starlink satellites
It was the first of two planned Starlink launchings in just three...
The Arctic is on track to lose more ice this century than at any point since the end of the Ice Age. Photos show the dramatic melting.
Melting ice could cause 3 feet of sea-level rise over the next 80 years, displacing 680 million people...
Crisis in the Galapagos: Chinese fishing fleets and COVID-19 threaten a natural wonder
Ecuador's Galapagos Islands face threats from illicit industrial fishing, climate change and a drastic drop in tourism dollars, which fund conservation efforts in the...
A groundbreaking new British drug offers hope to opioid addicts
Buvidal, is an injectable form of Buprenorphine, that acts as a slow-release drug that blocks the opioid receptors in the...
China is back to normal — the US and Europe are not. Here's how it succeeded.
China stamped out COVID-19 within months and has responded to small outbreaks by testing entire cities in...
Gardens help towns and cities beat countryside for tree cover
A survey of tree cover in England and Wales throws up a few...