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In late July, the governor of Bali, Indonesia’s most popular tourist destination, reopened the island to domestic tourists, including those from provinces hard hit by the coronavirus. Now the governor, I Wayan Koster, is paying the price. He disclosed this week that more than 20 workers at his official residence had tested positive for the […]

As seniors find themselves cut off from loved ones during the pandemic, some are turning to automated animals for company. Source link

A coronavirus survey in Minnesota was stopped after multiple cases of residents “intimidating and shouting racial and ethnic slurs” at public health workers who had been going door to door, the state Department of Health said. In an episode in Eitzen, Minn., a city of 250 people about 170 miles southeast of Minneapolis along the […]

Robert Gore, a chemical engineer whose failed lab experiments with a polymer led unwittingly to the invention of Gore-Tex, the versatile, waterproof material used in ski jackets, aortic stent grafts and spacesuits, died on Sept. 17 at his vacation home in Cecil County, Md. He was 83. The cause was cancer, according to a statement […]

Two former leaders of a Massachusetts veterans’ home were indicted on charges of criminal neglect related to the deaths of at least 76 residents. Israel imposed new limits on citizens traveling abroad. Source link

What if you could get an accurate weather report as much as three weeks in advance? In some parts of the world, that could soon be possible. Right now, forecasters can reliably predict the weather in most parts of the United States up to eight days in advance, according to the American Meteorological Society. In […]

If you divvy up emissions by countries, nearly half, about 44 percent, of all emissions that have accumulated since 1990 come from the United States, the nations of Europe, and China. That’s why any chance of actually averting climate catastrophes depends largely on what these economies do. In September came some signs of movement. Two […]

The U.S. hits seven million cases, with California leading the way. More than seven million people in the United States have now been infected by the coronavirus. Though the milestone, reached on Thursday according to a New York Times database, is sobering, it comes as infections in much of the country have in fact been […]

“The Forest Service’s environmental impact statement is junk science on assessing the impacts of releasing the carbon,” said Dominick DellaSala, chief scientist and president of Geos Institute, a nonprofit organization that studies climate change. “They are saying that the carbon that would be released by logging the timber is insignificant,” he said. “There’s no science […]

The nation’s Blue Cross plans have reached a tentative $2.7 billion settlement in a federal lawsuit filed by their customers that accuses the group of engaging in a conspiracy to thwart competition among the individual companies, according to two people with knowledge of the discussions. The settlement, which was first reported by The Wall Street […]