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US-China 'squabbles' delayed Covid origins investigations, WHO investigators say But experts are 'convinced' a clear picture will emerge 'fairly soon, within the next few years', around how the pandemic began 10 March 2021 • 6:35pm Marion Koopmans and Peter Ben Embarek, center, both of the World Health Organization team, say farewell to their Chinese counterpart Liang Wannian after a WHO-China Joint Study Press Conference held at the end of the WHO mission in Wuhan, China Credit: AP Photo/Ng Han Guan Science has been “crushed” by frosty geopolitical relations and anti-China rhetoric, ac...

‘They’re really quite magical,’ says volcano expert Matthew Watson

COVID-19 may not have originated in China, according to a World Health Organisation (WHO) scientist following an investigation which rejected rumours the virus leaked from a lab in Wuhan.

The expert believes further investigations are needed beyond China's border.

A rare “smoke ring” has been captured blowing from Guatemala’s Fuego volcano, an active stratovolcano 15 km west of the city of Antigua. Matthew Watson, a professor of volcanoes and climate at the University of Bristol, shared a photo of the sighting on Twitter as part of a virtual “field trip” he is conducting online after having a real-life trip to Guatemala cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic. “What a stunning looking volcano,” he wrote...