America's power stations had a rough year. Across the country, those humming, fenced-in tangles of circuits and transformers faced bullets, fires, metal chains and a.
Some 1.7 million people in cities across the planet died from air pollution in 2019, according to the first-ever study of urban air pollution that covers
In just over two years, the virus has killed more Americans than AIDS, the 1918 influenza or a quarter-century’s worth of seasonal flu. It’s killed more than the Civil War or the World Wars.
A million Americans have been lost to the pandemic, according to the federal government’s official count, making this a disaster that defies most comparisons. And yet it’s so much worse.