As the remnants of Delta scattered across the Mississippi Valley into Sunday morning, power outages and isolated bursts of severe weather spawned by the storm spread as far east as Georgia.
Delta, a former Category 4 hurricane in the Caribbean and th
Read more…A man in the United States has caught Covid twice, with the second infection becoming far more dangerous than the first, doctors report.
The 25-year-old needed hospital treatment after his lungs could not get enough oxygen into his body.
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Johnson & Johnson has temporarily halted its Covid-19 vaccine trial because one of its participants had become sick, the company said.
"We have temporarily paused further dosing in all our Covid-19 vaccine candidate clinical trials, including the Pha
Read more…The virus that causes Covid-19 can survive on banknotes, glass and stainless steel for up to 28 days, much longer than the flu virus, according to a new study.
https://www.rte.ie/news/world/2020/1012/1170905-covid-surface-survival/
Read more…Hurricane Delta has made landfall in the US state of Louisiana, which is still recovering from the damage caused by a previous hurricane in August.
This is the 10th named storm to make US landfall so far this year, breaking a record that has stood
surface air temperatures last month were 0.05C warmer than in 2019, making it the hottest September on record globally, experts from the EU's Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) said.
It was also the hottest September Europe has seen, beating the
Read more…The blazes have scorched an area larger than Rhode Island. Plus, the biggest fire has been burning for nearly two months now – and is just 54% contained.
More than 16,600 firefighters continue to work towards containment on 23 major wildfires.
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Read more…After becoming a hurricane over the Caribbean on Monday evening, Delta continued to gain strength early Tuesday morning. AccuWeather forecasters are warning that the powerful storm could strike the central Gulf Coast of the United States prior to the
Read more…While Tropical Storm Gamma continues to meander on the northern coast of the Yucatan Peninsula, another tropical feature is brewing in the region.
Read more…The 24th tropical storm of the 2020 Atlantic tropical season, Gamma, is delivering another flooding threat to parts of Mexico.
A stalled front, stretching from South Florida to the Bay of Campeche, brought tremendous flooding across parts of the Yuc
Read more…At least two people have died and up to 20 are still missing after a powerful storm hit south-eastern France and north-western Italy.
Named Alex, the storm brought fierce winds and torrential rain.
In north-western Italy, flooding was described as
Read more…US President Donald Trump has been given a dose of an experimental antibody drug manufactured by giant biopharma firm Regeneron.
President Trump had been given a single 8g dose of Regeneron's antibody cocktail REGN-COV2, before he was moved to the
Read more…"Cari said. Unrelenting rainfall overnight hit levels not seen since 1958 in northern Italy's."
Read more…The year 2020 is the hottest in the Antarctic Peninsula in the past three decades, a study by the University of Santiago de Chile found.
Those temperatures are "more than 2C over typical values," climatologist Raul Cordero said in a statement releas
Read more…The first person cured of HIV - Timothy Ray Brown - has died from cancer.
Mr Brown, who was also known as "the Berlin patient", was given a bone marrow transplant from a donor who was naturally resistant to HIV.
It meant he no longer needed anti-vira
Read more…This link contains many good graphs on the number of global COVID deaths.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned the death toll could hit two million before an effective vaccine is widely used.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-51235105
Read more…After Hurricane Laura unleashed catastrophic storm surge on the coast of Louisiana, residents who stayed put say they will never again stay during a hurricane.
“Something that you experience one time and don't do it again,” explained Kim Eagleson, a
Read more…Parts of Austria and Switzerland were surprised by unseasonably early snowfall overnight, after a sharp drop in temperatures and heavy precipitation. The Swiss meteorological agency said Saturday that the town of Montana, in the southern canton (stat
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