This evening, Hurricane Milton will touch down in Florida. The hurricane has mutated on a horrifying, unprecedented scale, stunning meteorologists and scientists and demonstrating one of the fastest intensifications on record. It comes only one week after Hurricane Helene devastated the southeastern U.S., including Florida. Candice Fortin, 350.org US CampaignsContinue Reading
An observational study published Wednesday of more than 100 million deaths across all six continents over four decades has found heightened mortality risk among people who live in areas that experience extreme rainfall., Read MoreContinue Reading
Twin brothers who were born conjoined recently celebrated their first birthday after undergoing successful separation surgery, Read MoreContinue Reading
Federal officials are working to move IV bags out of the path of Hurricane Milton, which is threatening another manufacturer of IV fluids even as hospitals nationwide are still reeling from disruptions caused by flooding at a large factory in North Car…, Read MoreContinue Reading
People hospitalized for COVID-19 early in the pandemic suffered an increased risk of heart attacks, strokes and other serious “cardiac events,” researchers say., Read MoreContinue Reading
The deep war chest could boost Harris’s advertising and operations in the last leg of the campaign., The deep war chest could boost Harris’s advertising and operations in the last leg of the campaign. US Vice President Kamala Harris has pulled in more than $1bn in fundraising since becoming herContinue Reading
Millions have fled the storm expected to make landfall Wednesday night or early Thursday., Millions of Florida residents have fled the US state as Hurricane Milton approaches, with officials there warning that those who stayed would “die” and that single-story homes would turn into “a coffin”. “We are a fewContinue Reading
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Getty Images Great Ormond Street Hospital is one of the world’s leading children’s hospitals An investigation into disgraced bone surgeon Mr Yaser Jabbar has been widened to cover five London hospitals, as 721 patients’ care is being reviewed. His work at St John and St Elizabeth Hospital and Cromwell Hospital,Continue Reading
Recent “catastrophic and massive floods” in Bangladesh have affected millions of people across the country, including those in Cox’s Bazar where nearly one million Rohingya refugees from Myanmar live alongside host communities, spokesperson William Spindler told journalists in Geneva on Friday. Continue Reading
Unchecked climate change, wildfires and air pollution continue to have “a spiralling, negative impact on health, ecosystems and agriculture”, with millions of deaths attributed to dirty air, the UN World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Thursday.Continue Reading
A new documentary from Al Jazeera takes a look at evidence of war crimes in Gaza in the form of social media posted by Israeli soldiers recording and celebrating their own attacks on Palestinians. We play excerpts from the film Investigating War Crimes in Gaza, now available online, and speakContinue Reading
Sometimes it feels like every story we see these days about kids and the internet is all about how it’s evil, making them depressed, and a huge problem for society. We keep trying to remind people that the actual science on this finds no support of the internet being soContinue Reading