Canada’s western provinces are worried that its wildfire season will be well above average. Scientists with the federal government say the problem will be exacerbated by tackling the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
The UK observed a minute's silence to commemorate the key workers who have died with coronavirus. Millions of people around Britain honoured the fallen.
Venezuela’s move to allow gold and diamond mining in six rivers in its Amazon region may worsen the environmental damage from a state-backed mining effort while also fuelling the spread of the coronavirus, according to activists and lawmakers.
Cuba has sent around 1,200 healthcare workers largely to vulnerable African and Caribbean nations but also to rich European countries such as Italy that have been particularly hard hit by the novel coronavirus.
Poor Hondurans who were barely eking out a living selling basics on the capital’s gritty streets prior to the coronavirus outbreak are now sleeping on those same streets as they can no longer afford their rent.
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is so desperate to find a virus for coronavirus he has offered a reward of 50 million pesos ($986,000) to any Filipino who can create a vaccine.
Canada is gradually reopening its economy after weeks of strict physical distancing measures amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Normal life in Canada ground to a halt, but some provinces are now offering frameworks for how things will inch back toward a semblance of normalcy.
Earth Day week began with a record high temperature of 97 degrees in Miami-Dade County. Steady light winds brought a dull acrid scent into the city from brush fires bordering the Everglades. A few thunderstorms had hit by week’s end and more tornadoes wreaked havoc across the south.
Two billion Muslims worldwide have gone into Ramadan under difficult circumstances and in the UK, they are adapting to the month of fasting collectively.
Hondurans under lockdown is one area of the country fear they are going to starve if supplies promised by the government don’t arrive soon.