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Global CO2 emissions to drop 4-7% in 2020, but will it matter?
May 27, 2020 06:21Lead author Corinne Le Quere, a professor at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research at the University of East Anglia said “Population confinement has led to drastic changes in energy use and CO2 emissions,” adding, “However, these extreme decreases are likely to be temporary, as they do not reflect structural changes in the economic, transport or energy systems.”
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COVID-19 cases spark concern in Rohingya refugee camps
May 27, 2020 06:06Internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Myanmar's Rakhine and neighboring Chin State are considered at particularly high risk of COVID-19 for a number of reasons, including active conflict and travel restrictions. More than 8,000 civilians, mostly ethnic Chin Christians, fled fighting in recent months between the military and the Arakan Army group in the Paletwa and Matupi townships which border Rakhine.
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China’s president orders military to prepare for war
May 27, 2020 05:54Chinese President Xi Jinping has ordered China’s armed forces to “comprehensively” strengthen the training of troops and be prepared for war, as tensions rise between Beijing and a number of other countries.
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Number of coronavirus recoveries in Iran nearing 110,000
May 27, 2020 01:33The number of coronavirus positive cases recovering from the infectious disease in Iran is going to hit 110,000, the Health Ministry’s spokesman said Tuesday.
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Global COVID-19 cases near 5.5mn mark, WHO warns of 2nd peak
May 26, 2020 05:21The number of confirmed coronavirus infections worldwide now stands at 5,495,061, with 346,232 cases having resulted in loss of life, according to the latest figures compiled by Johns Hopkins University.
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From Kenya to Bangladesh, mask-making has become a thriving cottage industry
May 26, 2020 04:09Regina Catrambone, Cofounder of Migrant Offshore Aid Station (MOAS), which has worked in Bangladesh since 2017 says “When we saw in other countries how fast the coronavirus pandemic was spreading, we thought about how we could use our resources to help prevent the spread in Bangladesh.
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Trump says doctors and nurses “running into death” is “beautiful thing to see”
May 26, 2020 04:06As healthcare workers across the U.S. continue to protest the federal government's failure to provide adequate personal protective equipment and ensure strict workplace safety standards to protect them from Covid-19, President Donald Trump on Thursday—standing in front of stacked boxes of medical supplies—said that frontline nurses and doctors "running into death just like soldiers run into bullets" is "a beautiful thing to see."
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Trump wanted less testing because Jared Kushner said it would spook Wall Street
May 26, 2020 03:58US President Donald Trump and his son-in-law Jared Kushner discouraged efforts to ramp up testing for weeks after the coronavirus pandemic hit the U.S. over of concerns that a rising number of cases might spook Wall Street, according to a new report.
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Trump pushes for packed arena for Republican convention as US virus deaths near 100,000
May 26, 2020 03:43US President Donald Trump has threatened to move the Republican party’s national convention from Charlotte, North Carolina, if the state is unable to commit to “full attendance” at the gathering due to the coronavirus social distancing restrictions.
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54,000 US deaths could’ve been prevented if distancing were introduced March 1
May 25, 2020 13:00A newly released study from Columbia University concludes that tens of thousands of Americans likely died from COVID-19 due to the initial inaction and slow response to the disease from the Trump administration.