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The Fed is not a ‘climate-policy maker,’ Powell says
The Federal Reserve has only a “narrow” role regarding climate change risks – to make sure banks understand and manage…
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At COP27 climate summit, Brazil’s Lula says Amazon deforestation to stop
Six weeks before taking power, Brazilian President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Wednesday told a packed crowd at the…
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The worst air in the world today is in these two American cities
People in the Pacific Northwest now have another reason to put on a mask: dangerous air because of recent wildfires.…
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CDC scraps travel health notices as countries slow testing, and study confirms Republican-leaning counties suffered more COVID deaths than Democrat-leaning ones
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has dropped its country-by-country COVID-19 travel health notices that it began issuing…
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Lost Sanibel causeway and ‘reversed’ Tampa Bay: Why Ian will rank among worst hurricanes in Florida history
Hurricane Ian slammed into Florida’s Gulf Coast on Wednesday, striking the popular tourist islands of Sanibel and Captiva — in…
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Biden’s pandemic comment sparks debate among experts who say winter and potential new variants are key
The fallout from President Joe Biden’s assertion on Sunday that the pandemic is over continued into Tuesday, with experts warning…
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U.S. to start vaccinating very young children this week, and panel to recommend overhauling healthcare system
The U.S. will start vaccinating children below the age of 5 starting this week, after regulatory agencies approved the shots…
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WHO says true COVID death toll is 15 million, far higher than the 6 million counted by Johns Hopkins
The World Health Organization said Thursday that new estimates show that the full death toll associated either directly or indirectly…
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Fauci says U.S. ‘out of the pandemic phase,’ but COVID will never be fully eradicated
““We are certainly right now in this country out of the pandemic phase. Namely, we don’t have 900,000 new infections…
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COVID vaccinations have ground to a halt in Ukraine, WHO warns, and Russia has carried out 64 attacks on healthcare systems and workers
Russia’s unprovoked invasion of neighboring Ukraine has brought COVID-19 vaccinations to a halt, the World Health Organization said Thursday, and…
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