World News
Will warm weather really kill off Covid-19?
March 30, 2020 · By Richard Gray for www.bbc.com
Many infectious diseases wax and wane with the seasons. Flu typically arrives with the colder winter months, as does the norovirus vomiting bug. Others, such as typhoid, tend to peak during the summer. Measles cases drop during the summer in temperate climates, while in tropical regions they peak in the dry season. Perhaps unsurprisingly, many people are now […]
Read More...Coronavirus: South Korea reports lowest number of new cases in four weeks
March 30, 2020 · By BBC News for www.bbc.com
South Korea has reported the lowest number of new coronavirus cases since infection rates peaked four weeks ago, fuelling hope Asia’s worst outbreak outside China may be abating. The country recorded 64 new cases of Covid-19 in the last 24 hours, taking the total to 8,961 with 111 deaths. But health officials warn against complacency, […]
Read More...Stranded and hungry in India’s lockdown
March 30, 2020 · By Melina Delkic for www.nytimes.com
Stranded and hungry in India’s lockdown The effects of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s restrictions on movement, affecting some 1.3 billion people in India, are coming into view, as the country’s most vulnerable populations struggle to eat or to find shelter, and get punished for it. Hundreds of thousands of migrant laborers have begun long journeys […]
Read More...Coal power developers ‘risk wasting billions’
March 27, 2020 · By Roger Harrabin for www.bbc.com
Coal power developers risk wasting hundreds of billions of pounds as new renewable sources are now cheaper than new coal plants, a report has said. The shift is mainly due to cheaper wind and solar power, Carbon Tracker said. It added that in 10 years it will be cheaper to close down coal plants and […]
Read More...Climate change: Will planting millions of trees really save the planet?
March 27, 2020 · By David Shukman for www.bbc.com
From Greta Thunberg to Donald Trump and airlines to oil companies, everyone is suddenly going crazy for trees. The UK government has pledged to plant millions a year while other countries have schemes running into billions. But are these grand ambitions achievable? How much carbon dioxide do trees really pull in from the atmosphere? And […]
Read More...Climate change: The rich are to blame, international study finds
March 27, 2020 · By Roger Harrabin for www.bbc.com
The rich are primarily to blame for the global climate crisis, a study by the University of Leeds of 86 countries claims. The wealthiest tenth of people consume about 20 times more energy overall than the bottom ten, wherever they live. The gulf is greatest in transport, where the top tenth gobble 187 times more […]
Read More...Coronavirus: Air pollution and CO2 fall rapidly as virus spreads
March 27, 2020 · By Matt McGrath, Environment correspondent for www.bbc.com
Levels of air pollutants and warming gases over some cities and regions are showing significant drops as coronavirus impacts work and travel. Researchers in New York told the BBC their early results showed carbon monoxide mainly from cars had been reduced by nearly 50% compared with last year. Emissions of the planet-heating gas CO2 have […]
Read More...Sextortion hackers use ‘friend’s naked girlfriend’ lure
March 25, 2020 · By BBC News for www.bbc.com
A novel attempt to convince people to open malicious email attachments is spreading online, purporting to offer nude photos of a friend’s girlfriend. Instead of threatening to distribute stolen private images, this new attempt claims to have already “sextorted” the recipient’s friend, who refused to pay. It tells them it is now emailing nude photos […]
Read More...Peter Nygard: FBI raids fashion mogul HQ in sex trafficking probe
March 25, 2020 · By BBC News for www.bbc.com
US agents have raided fashion executive Peter Nygard’s Manhattan offices as part of a sex-trafficking investigation. The FBI and New York police executed a search warrant on Tuesday, a spokesman for the US Attorney’s Office said. The raid comes as Mr Nygard, 77, is facing a sexual assault and trafficking lawsuit, filed by 10 women […]
Read More...The crisis forcing mothers to give away their babies
March 25, 2020 · By Guillermo D Olmo for www.bbc.com
“Dumping babies is forbidden,” the sign created by Eric Mejicano reads. The Venezuelan artist posted the signs on walls across Venezuela after a newborn was found in the rubbish near his apartment block in the capital, Caracas. Mejicano says that he launched the campaign to alert people to the fact that in Venezuela “something is […]
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