A Promising New Ebola Vaccine Is About to Be Put to the Test
Health care volunteers are sprayed with bleach after removing corpses of Ebola victims in Koango, Guinea, in 2014. Idrissa Soumar/Planet Pix/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Since Ebola was first discovered in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1976, outbreaks have largely been stopped with the same methods—isolating the sick, and…
Scott Pruitt Just Testified Before Congress. It Didn’t Go Well.
Tom Williams/Congressional Quarterly, Zuma Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Given an opportunity to address the scandals that have dominated his 16 months at the head of at the Environmental Protection Agency, Scott Pruitt admitted Wednesday, “I would not make the same decisions again.” It was the only time in the…
He Was Dying. Antibiotics Weren’t Working. Then Doctors Tried a Forgotten Treatment.
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Steffanie Strathdee hunched over her laptop, fretting. She barely noticed the kittens asleep next to her or the serene Buddha figure across the living room, anchored next to the glass doors that looked toward the gleaming Pacific. Her mind was 20 miles away in the…
Sulfur Dioxide Damages Lungs, and Scott Pruitt Is Letting More of It in Our Air
Mother Jones illustration Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Nearly a quarter of the nation’s coal-fired power plants in 2017 lacked pollution controls limiting emissions of lung-damaging sulfur dioxide, even though some of their counterparts have been using the controls for almost 40 years. Federal data show this disparity. It leaves…
These Are the Countries That Will Have the Worst Temperature Swings in the Future
Suvra Kanti Das/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Grist and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The effects of climate change are already hitting hardest in the parts of the world that have contributed the least to our current state of affairs. That, we already…
We’re Running Out of Clean Water. Bats Know Where to Find It.
Preliminary analyses suggest the long-tailed serotine (Eptesicus hottentotus) could indicate the presence of high-quality water in the northern Namib Desert. Theresa Laverty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Undark and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Desert life depends on reliable access to water. In Namibia’s…