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The UN plans to extend weather warning systems to everyone on the planet

The United Nations wants to make sure every person on Earth can receive early warnings ahead of disastrous weather events. It set a goal of hitting that target within five years in an announcement last week. Early warning systems are needed urgently to save lives as climate change makes extreme weather even worse, UN officials said. Such systems include technology to forecast dangerous weather systems and the ability to share those forecasts […]

todayMarch 28, 2022

Health & Wellness

Global death toll from COVID-19 tops 2M amid vaccine rollout

The global death toll from COVID-19 topped 2 million Friday as vaccines developed at breakneck speed are being rolled out around the world in an all-out campaign to vanquish the threat. The milestone was reached just over a year after the coronavirus was first detected in the Chinese city of Wuhan. The number of dead, compiled by Johns Hopkins University, is about equal to the population of Brussels, Mecca, Minsk […]

todayJanuary 18, 2021

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