The U.S. National Hurricane Center says slow-moving Hurricane Sally, the latest storm to threaten the U.S. Gulf Coast, remains offshore but is already bringing high winds, rain and surf to …
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Sally Brings 100-mph Winds As it Rumbles into US Gulf Coast
Hurricane Sally drew closer to the U.S. Gulf Coast on Tuesday morning, bringing heavy rains and surging water ahead of its expected landfall as a Category 2 hurricane, with the …
your ads here!Humpback Whales Found In Crocodile-Infested Australian River, Baffling Scientists
Marine experts are planning to rescue humpback whales that have been recorded for the first time in crocodile-infested waters in the Kakadu national park in tropical northern Australia. It is …
your ads here!Trump, Biden Differ on Approach to Western Wildfires
At opposite ends of the country, President Donald Trump and his Democratic challenger Joe Biden presented vastly different views Monday about the cause of the historic, destructive wildfires in the Western United States, …
your ads here!Hurricane Sally Threatens US Gulf Coast with Slow Drenching
Hurricane Sally, one of five storms lined up as if on a conveyor belt across the Atlantic, churned toward the Louisiana-Mississippi coast Monday with rapidly strengthening winds of at least …
your ads here!Astronomers Announce Possible Sign of Life on Venus
An international team of astronomers Monday announced the discovery of a rare gas molecule — phosphine — in the clouds of Venus, which may be the first solid evidence of …
your ads here!Sally Set to Become Hurricane and Threaten US Gulf Coast
Tropical Storm Sally slowed down Sunday as it churned northward toward the U.S. Gulf Coast, increasing the risk of heavy rain and dangerous storm surge before an expected strike as …
your ads here!Medical Journal: Masks an Important Tool to Fight COVID-19
Wearing a face mask during the COVID-19 pandemic could be a more important part of the arsenal against the virus than previously thought.An article in The New England Journal of …
your ads here!Dakotas Lead US in Virus Growth as Both Reject Mask Rules
Coronavirus infections in the Dakotas are growing faster than anywhere else in the nation, fueling impassioned debates over masks and personal freedom after months in which the two states avoided …
your ads here!DRC, Congo Face Risk of Ebola Spreading Across Border
The World Health Organization is raising the prospect that the deadly Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Equateur province could spread across borders.The latest figures put the …
your ads here!Daily US Virus Deaths Decline, But Trend May Reverse in Fall
The number of daily U.S. deaths from the coronavirus is declining again after peaking in early August, but scientists warn that a new bout with the disease this fall could …
your ads here!Terrorism, Pandemic Trigger Two Kinds of Stress
This September 11 is different. Every year, Americans have remembered the largest terrorist attack on American soil by coming together – to read names, to pray, to hold hands. But …
your ads here!COVID ‘Increasing Rapidly’ Among American Youth
Cases of COVID-19 are “increasingly rapidly among young adults in the U.S.,” according to a research letter from Harvard, published at the online site of the JAMA medical journal.The study …
your ads here!NASA Sets Out to Buy Moon Resources Mined by Private Companies
NASA on Thursday launched an effort to pay companies to mine resources on the moon, announcing it would buy from them rocks, dirt and other lunar materials as the U.S. …
your ads here!Report: World’s Wildlife Population Has Plummeted Because of Human Activity
A report released Thursday by the nonprofit conservation group World Wildlife Fund (WWF) said the world’s wildlife populations have plunged by an average of 68% in just four decades, with …
your ads here!Climate Change May Shift Risks of Mosquito-borne Diseases
More dengue, less malaria. That may be the future in parts of Africa on a warming planet, depending on where you live. FILE – A doctor tests a child for malaria …
your ads here!La Nina Climate Pattern Could Bring Snow, Storms to North America
U.S. weather officials announced Thursday that a La Nina climate pattern has developed in the Pacific Ocean, possibly exacerbating an already busy hurricane season and setting up a colder, wetter …
your ads here!Mexican Airport Site Emerges as Major Graveyard of Ice Age Mammoths
Amid busy construction crews racing to build an airport in Mexico, scientists are unearthing more and more mammoth skeletons in what has quickly become one of the world’s biggest concentrations …
your ads here!Big Drop Reported in Vaping by US Teenagers
Vaping by U.S. teenagers fell dramatically this year, especially among middle schoolers, according to a federal report released Wednesday.Experts think last year’s outbreak of vaping-related illnesses and deaths may have …
your ads here!Trump Bans Oil Drilling Off Florida, Georgia, South Carolina
U.S. President Donald Trump has moved to bar offshore oil and gas drilling in parts of the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Ocean, a rare action against the fossil fuel …
your ads here!Pharmaceutical Giant AstraZeneca Halts COVID-19 Vaccine Trial
British-Swedish pharmaceutical giant Astra-Zeneca has paused large-scale global trials of its COVID-19 vaccine because a volunteer participant became ill after receiving the experimental drug. The company issued a statement Tuesday …
your ads here!Australian Teenagers Take on Mining Giant Over Expansion Plans
For the first time in Australia, teenagers have launched a class-action lawsuit on behalf of young people around the world to stop the extension of a coal mine in the state of New South …
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