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Climate finance: what about international solidarity? For sub-Saharan populations (here, a woman in Somaliland), prolonged droughts are among the most dramatic consequences of global warming. Keystone / Mark Naftalin / United Nations D The industrialised countries are the main producers of CO2 emissions. However, they are not doing enough to help poorer nations – worst hit by the effects of global warming – to cope with the climate crisis. A new report criticises the laxity of European coun...

BioNTech, Moderna shore up supplies of key COVID-19 vaccine ingredients FILE PHOTO: A nurse fills a syringe with a second dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, as the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak continues, at Enfermera Isabel Zendal new pandemic hospital in Madrid, Spain, February 4, 2021. REUTERS/Sergio Perez/File Photo reuters_tickers This content was published on February 12, 2021 - 13:29 February 12, 2021 - 13:29 By Allison Martell, Ludwig Burger and Chad Terhune (Reuter...

BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinas space agency released two videos providing a close-up glimpse of Mars on Friday, captured as its Tianwen-1 probe entered the red planets orbit, saying the spacecraft was sending a Lunar New Year greeting to Earth. After a 6-1/2 month journey through space, the Tianwen-1 on Wednesday slowed to a speed at which it could be captured by the pull of Mars gravity and became the second spacecraft to reach the planet this month, with a U.S. probe set to arrive and immediately ...

Are two masks better than one? FILE PHOTO: KN95 masks are shown for sale in a vending machine at the airport during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in San Diego, California, U.S., February 4, 2021. REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Photo reuters_tickers This content was published on February 10, 2021 - 00:01 February 10, 2021 - 00:01 By Beatrix Lockwood NEW YORK (Reuters) - When it comes to protecting yourself against new coronavirus variants, two masks may be better than one. A numbe...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen acknowledged failings on Wednesday in the EUs approval and rollout of vaccines against COVID-19, and said the bloc had learned lessons in the process. The chief of the EU executive was speaking to lawmakers in the European Parliament following criticism of the slow roll-out of vaccines and a plan to curb exports that initially sought to set up a hard border on the island of Ireland, causing an outcry in London and Dublin. Vo...

Wealthy German high-tech hub doubles as anti-vaxxer base FILE PHOTO: Coronavirus sceptics protest against government restrictions amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Bremen, Germany, December 5, 2020. REUTERS/Fabian Bimmer/File Photo reuters_tickers This content was published on February 9, 2021 - 13:25 February 9, 2021 - 13:25 By Thomas Escritt STUTTGART, Germany (Reuters) - Christoph Hueck illustrates the challenge Germany faces in rolling out a mass vaccination campaign to t...

By Alexander Winning and Olivia Kumwenda-Mtambo JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa will put on hold use of AstraZenecas COVID-19 shot in its vaccination programme, after data showed it gave minimal protection against mild-to-moderate infection caused by the countrys dominant coronavirus variant. Health Minister Zweli Mkhize said on Sunday that the government would await advice from scientists on how best to proceed, after a trial showed the AstraZeneca vaccine did not significantly reduce the...

From January 2020 until today, the world has been in the grips of to a tiny organism, invisible to the naked eye. Raise your hand if you could imagine a year ago how much our lives would change.

Should we be afraid of virus variants? Will vaccines be effective against new virus forms? Genomic epidemiologist Emma Hodcroft offers some insight.

By Yereth Rosen ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - Earth’s ice is melting faster today than in the mid-1990s, new research suggests, as climate change nudges global temperatures ever higher. Altogether, an estimated 28 trillion metric tons of ice have melted away from the world’s sea ice, ice sheets and glaciers since the mid-1990s. Annually, the melt rate is now about 57 percent faster than it was three decades ago, scientists report in a study published Monday in the journal The Cryosphere. “...