Science and Health

Former US Senator Inhofe, defense hawk and climate change skeptic, dies at 89

Purdue Pharma secures litigation freeze after US Supreme Court ruling

Nigeria’s bushmeat consumption comes under scrutiny

American mountaineer found mummified in Peru 22 years after vanishing

After $1B gift, most Johns Hopkins medical students won’t pay tuition

Park benches and grandmothers: Zimbabwe’s novel mental health therapy spreads overseas

Torrid heat bakes millions of people in large swaths of US, setting records and fanning wildfires

Oldest inhabited termite mounds have been active for 34,000 years

Fossils show huge salamanderlike predator with sharp fangs existed before the dinosaurs

US records may shatter as excessive heat threatens 130 million

‘Ready to come out?’ Scientists emerge after year ‘on Mars’

Which states could have abortion on the ballot in 2024?

Anti-doping agency sharpens its tools for Paris Olympics

Crocodiles cannot outnumber people in Australian territory where girl was killed, leader says

Hurricane Beryl destroys homes, uproots trees in Grenada

Dangers grow for media covering environment beat

India is likely undercounting heat deaths, affecting its response to increasingly harsh heat waves

NYC’s interactive exhibition sends visitors on outer space journey

USAID helps parts of Ukraine become energy independent 

Japan’s top court rules forced sterilization law unconstitutional

Biden announces measures to protect against extreme weather

FDA approves 2nd Alzheimer’s drug that modestly slows disease

Study: Climate-induced disasters significantly weaken Pakistan’s societal resilience

US will pay Moderna to develop pandemic flu vaccine

LogOn: New test will be game changer in tuberculosis diagnostics

Amazon sidesteps carbon offset standard Bezos helped fund

Street medicine teams search for homeless people to deliver lifesaving IV hydration in extreme heat

Space Pioneer says part of rocket crashed in central China

Hurricane Beryl strengthens into Category 4 storm as it nears southeast Caribbean

Genome study deepens mystery of what doomed Earth’s last mammoths

List of threatened species grows by 1,000

Antelope poaching on rise in South Sudan

Beryl strengthens into a hurricane, forecast to become major storm

Palestinians face summer heat surrounded by sewage, garbage

More African nations focus on HPV vaccination against cervical cancer

NASA astronauts to stay aboard ISS longer, troubleshooting Boeing capsule

India airport roof collapse kills 1, injures 6

Nigerian ginger farmers struggle after outbreak of disease

CDC recommends updated COVID shots for everyone older than 6 months

Canada’s 2023 fires spewed more heat-trapping gas than millions of cars

Supreme Court halts enforcement of the EPA’s plan to limit downwind pollution from power plants

US health agency issues dengue virus infection advisory

2 pandas en route from China to US under conservation partnership

Hilton tells Congress youth care programs need more oversight

Report: Supreme Court seems poised to allow emergency abortions in Idaho

Nigeria declares cholera crisis, launches emergency measures

WHO: 3 million die each year from drugs, alcohol

Experts: Northern Gaza spared famine, but ‘sustained risk’ remains

2 years after Roe overturned, abortion decision reverberates

Senegal tightens anti-COVID controls after Mecca deaths

Over 1,000 pilgrims died during this year’s Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia, officials say

Conservation efforts bring Iberian lynx back from brink of extinction

In South Africa, traditional healers join fight against HIV

Ivory Coast sets up mobile enrollment for problematic health coverage program

How does heat kill? It confuses your brain, overworks your heart, shuts down your organs

US charity sends medical help to Ukraine’s frontline towns

Half a million Ukrainians in frontline city of Mykolaiv suffer through 3rd year without clean water

Gas company finds 3,300-year-old ship off Israel’s coast

Climate change intensifies US, Mexico heat wave, study finds

African leaders, French president seek vaccines for Africa