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UK eyes quarantine hotels for travelers to curb variants
LONDON (AP) ??" Britain appears ready to order some travelers arriving from abroad to isolate in hotels at their own expense in an attempt to stop the import of new virus variants.Vaccines Minister Nadhim Zahawi said there would be an announcement Tuesday on plans for tighter border measures. The BBC reported that U.K. citizens and residents arriving from most of southern Africa and South America, as well as Portugal, will have to self-isolate in a hotel for 10 days at their own expense.
Quarantine hotels have been used to limit virus transmissions in countries... Read More
UN chief: World faces 'existential threats,' fragilities
NEW YORK (AP) ??" U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned global leaders Monday that the world is not only facing a COVID-19 emergency and the worst economic crisis in nearly a century, but also "existential threats" to the climate and biodiversity ??" and the possibility of the largest economies, the United States and China, splitting the world in two.In a wide-ranging speech to the World Economic Forum's virtual Davos Agenda meeting, the U.N. chief said humanity doesn't want to repeat 2020's "tragedy and crisis." However, he pointed to the many fragilities in today's... Read More
It's a secret: California keeps key virus data from public
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) ??" California Gov. Gavin Newsom has from the start said his coronavirus policy decisions would be driven by data shared with the public to provide maximum transparency.But with the state starting to emerge from its worst surge, his administration won't disclose key information that will help determine when his latest stay-at-home order is lifted.
State health officials said they rely on a very complex set of measurements that would confuse and potentially mislead the public if they were made public.
After Newsom, a Democrat, imposed... Read More
US government approves routes for Wyoming CO2 pipelines
CASPER, Wyo. (AP) ??" The U.S. government has approved routes for a system of pipelines that would move carbon dioxide across Wyoming in what could be by far the largest such network in North America, if it is developed.The greenhouse gas would be captured from coal-fired power plants, keeping it out of the atmosphere where it causes global warming. The captured gas would instead be pumped underground to add pressure to and boost production from oil fields.
In all, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management designated 1,100 miles (1,770 kilometers) of federal land for pipeline... Read More
Mobile labs take vaccine studies to diverse neighborhoods
NEW YORK (AP) ??" Lani Muller doesn't have to visit a doctor's office to help test an experimental COVID-19 vaccine ??" she just climbs into a bloodmobile-like van that parks on a busy street near her New York City neighborhood.The U.S. is rightly fixated on the chaotic rollout of the first two authorized vaccines to fight the pandemic. But with more vaccines in the pipeline ??" critical to boosting global supplies ??" scientists worry whether enough volunteers will join and stick with the testing needed to prove if they, too, really work.
Those studies, like earlier... Read More
Top Stories in Science
- UK eyes quarantine hotels for travelers to curb variants
- EU demands that vaccine makers honor their commitments
- UN chief: World faces 'existential threats,' fragilities
- It's a secret: California keeps key virus data from public
- US government approves routes for Wyoming CO2 pipelines
- Mobile labs take vaccine studies to diverse neighborhoods
- Monarch butterfly population moves closer to extinction
- Halted rocket test could stall NASA moon shot, redo possible
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