Science & Environnement

Heat dome leaves US Southwest facing ‘dangerous’ temperatures

Scientists warn tens of millions of Americans will be affected by extreme weather linked to climate change

Moderna pins hopes on mRNA ‘game-changer’ for cancer vaccines

Technology behind blockbuster Covid jabs is yielding promising results in oncology treatment
Powerful magnitude 7.7 earthquake kills at least 38 in Indonesia

A search and rescue operation is under way to find survivors in Flores, an island in eastern Indonesia.
Magnitude 7.1 earthquake rocks Japan, prompting tsunami advisory

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Wildfire smoke disrupts lives, events across the US on final weekend of World Cup

1 months ago

Smoke from wildfires burning in the US and Canada creates a thick, hazardous haze while workers examine the center drain of a dry Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool in Washington, DC, on Friday, July 17. Allison Bailey/NURPHO/Associated Press

Where the worst heat will be during July 4th weekend

2 months ago

Pedestrians carry umbrellas to shield themselves from the sun during high temperatures in Washington, DC, on Wednesday. Graeme Sloan/Bloomberg/Getty Images

Ebola Burial Team Attacked, 11 Patients Flee Care in Widening Outbreak in Congo

A burial team was attacked and 11 Ebola patients fled isolation facilities in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

2 months ago

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Congo health ministry reports 131 deaths and 513 suspected Ebola cases

The Congolese health ministry is reporting that there have been at least 131 deaths and over 500 suspected cases in the ongoing Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo

3 months ago

Jospin Mwisha / AFP via Getty Images. All visitors and patients must wash their hands and have their temperatures taken before entering Kyeshero Hospital in Goma

Ebola Case in Rebel-Held Goma Complicates Congo Relief Response

3 months ago

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CDC to Get Some Americans Out of Ebola Region in Congo

At least six Americans exposed to Ebola during DR Congo outbreak

3 months ago

AFP via Getty Images / The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the outbreak in DR Congo an international emergency

How worried should we be about hantavirus?

3 months ago

Reuters Officers assisting in the disembarkation at the port in Tenerife dressed in protective clothing

Evacuated US and French MV Hondius passengers test positive for hantavirus

French woman taken to Paris in serious condition while American flown to Nebraska is asymptomatic, say officials

3 months ago

More than 100 people have been evacuated from MV Hondius, which is moored off the coast of Tenerife. Photograph: Jorge Guerrero/AFP/Getty Images

What next for US passengers evacuated from hantavirus-hit cruise ship?

3 months ago

Spanish passengers wearing blue plastic ponchos and hair coverings after leaving the ship in the Canary Islands. Photograph: Chris McGrath/Getty Images

French national shows symptoms on return from hantavirus-hit ship

3 months ago

Getty Images / Ambulances took the five French passengers to a hospital in Paris

Fight over online access to abortion pill reaches Supreme Court in emergency appeal

4 months ago

Mifepristone tablets sit on a table at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Ames, Iowa, on July 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File) Charlie Neibergall/AP/File

Chernobyl survivors reveal what happened after nuclear disaster (FULL DOCUMENTARY)

RT speaks to Chernobyl liquidators, doctors, scientists, archivists, and residents of the Belarusian exclusion zone

4 months ago

Chernobyl survivors reveal what happened after nuclear disaster (FULL DOCUMENTARY)

FDA moves to fast-track review of psilocybin and methylone for mental health

4 months ago

A sign for the Food And Drug Administration is seen outside of the headquarters in White Oak, Maryland, on July 20, 2020. Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images/File

Artemis astronauts prepare for historic lunar flyby

If all proceeds smoothly, the astronauts will enter the 'lunar sphere of influence' overnight on Sunday, setting a record by venturing farther from Earth than any human before.

4 months ago

This handout picture provided by NASA shows the Orion spacecraft with the Moon in the distance, as captured by a camera on the tip of one of its solar array wings, on April 3, 2026. NASA / AFP

Bass directed watering down of Palisades fire after-action report, sources say

6 months ago

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass attends a City Hall ceremony last month to commemorate the first anniversary of the Eaton and Palisades fires. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

See snow totals across the US, including NYC, Boston

7 months ago

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A worker clears snow from a White House driveway as a major winter storm spreads across a large swath of the United States, in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 25, 2026. Elizabeth Frantz, REUTERS