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Bats and the origins of outbreaks Reuters 2/03/2021 © Reuters/NIR ELIAS FILE PHOTO: Bats fly in a cave near Tel Aviv (Reuters) - Scientists have long suspected that the rate of new infectious diseases could accelerate, especially in developing countries where human and animal interaction is increasing. Changes in the environment are driving displaced species of animals into new habitats, allowing them to mix with other species or potential hosts. Those shifts, combined with greater human interaction with animals as people move deeper into forests, increases the chances of a virulent vi...

A landslide 20 kilometres west of Nanda Devi, India's second-highest peak, resulted in a flash flood on Feb. 7 that left more than 200 dead, and swept away two state hydro-electric projects, according to satellite imagery reviewed by Reuters.

19 Feb 2021 / 13:14 H. By Marco Hernandez, Simon Scarr and Katy Daigle Feb 19 (Reuters) - From Shanghai to Seattle, the world's cities are built on massive amounts of sand. It's in the cement and concrete that make up the bulk of buildings. The glass in the windows of those buildings is made with sand, too, as is the tarmac on the roads around them. (Open https://tmsnrt.rs/3pCXVcZ in an external browser to view an interactive graphic on sand mining.) Sand is the planet's most mined material, with some 50 billion tons extracted from lakes, riverbeds, coastlines and deltas each year, according...

3rd February, 2021 Chapter nine of “The Data Detective” / “How To Make The World Add Up” is all about data visualisation – its power, and its pitfalls. The overarching story is about how one woman launched a public health revolution, armed with a fancy pie chart. I’m fond of the chapter – but how does it look to audiobook listeners? Ah. Obviously the pictures in the audiobook are… well, nonexistent. So here are links to the graphics in question. First, Nigel Holmes’s famous – infamous? – graphic, ‘Diamonds were a girl’s best friend‘, produced for Time magazine in ...

How the novel coronavirus has evolved How the novel coronavirus has evolved The world is now dealing with a different type of SARS-CoV-2 than the one that emerged in China almost a year ago, with mutations creating at least seven strains of the virus so far. By PUBLISHED Dec. 10, 2020 As the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 swept across the world and killed more than 1.5 million in the past year, it has mutated into several major groups, or strains, as it adapted to its human hosts. Mapping and understanding those changes to the virus is crucial to developing strategies to combat the COVID-19 disease i...