This past March, passenger service on the “Silver Supporter,” a lifeline to the outside world for the Pitcairn Islands, was suspended due to COVID-19. A 32-hour trip on the freighter is n...
Last month, the results of a COVID-19 study in New South Wales, Australia suggested the disease spreads faster in periods of lower humidity during winter. Several weeks later, after a fre...
Nearly a century before George Floyd’s fatal encounter with police at a Minneapolis intersection, a federal agency warned that the area located just a few blocks to the west had declined ...
This past March, the Marion Correctional Institution in Ohio was estimated to be at 153% of its official capacity. One month later, roughly 80% of the American prison’s population – more ...
It’s a phrase that’s spurring momentum for fundamental change. It’s also drawing heated backlash.
Those wondering if the threat of COVID-19 is receding should take a hard look at Peru.
In the span of several days earlier this month, monuments to at least two Confederate generals were yanked from their pedestals in the US. The statue of a 17th-century slave trader was du...
El miércoles pasado, cuando algunos países previamente afectados pudieron registrar diariamente infecciones de COVID-19 en un solo dígito, la Nación Navajo - una extensión de 71.000 kilóm...
This past Wednesday, when some previously hard-hit countries were able to register daily COVID-19 infections in the single digits, the Navajo Nation – a 71,000 square-kilometre expanse of...
As the coronavirus kept more people indoors, many felt an important part of their lives had vanished: noise.
Un jugador del club de fútbol alemán Hertha Berlin recientemente levantó las cejas cuando pareció plantar un beso a un compañero de equipo durante una victoria por 3-0, burlándose de las ...
A player for German soccer club Hertha Berlin recently raised eyebrows when he appeared to plant a kiss on a teammate during a 3-0 victory – flouting coronavirus-related guidelines. Offic...
In February, as the coronavirus situation in China worsened and other parts of the world saw their first outbreaks, residents at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station were prepping for a ...
When former US President George W. Bush recently urged Americans to unite in the face of COVID-19, he described everyone as “equally vulnerable.” But COVID-19 hasn't had an equal impact o...
COVID-19 hasn't had the same the sort of devastating impact on Africa as it has elsewhere, according to official statistics. That may not last.
