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Prime Minister Scott Morrison has announced the $1.165 billion Kalgoorlie Nickel project will be given major project status in recognition of the resource industry’s economic contribution. The minerals mine and processing plant will produce a mixed hydroxide precipitate to be used as a raw material to grow the international battery market. Projects given major project […]
Over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, analyses of federal, state, and local data have shown that people of color have experienced a disproportionate burden of cases and deaths. They have shown particularly large disparities in cases and deaths for Black and American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) people and in cases among Hispanic people […]
The Tagus estuary near Lisbon is Portugal’s largest wetland, a vital habitat and stopover for tens of thousands of migratory birds, including flamingos, black-tailed godwits and glossy ibis. It has also been earmarked as the site of a new airport, leading the environmental law charity ClientEarth and a group of Portuguese NGOs to sue Portugal’s […]
(Maria Bobrova/iStock, Getty Images) Nearly half of all dementia cases in the U.S. may be linked to a dozen modifiable risk factors – most notably high blood pressure, obesity and physical inactivity, according to new research. The findings suggest a large portion of dementia cases could be prevented, especially among Black and Hispanic adults, who […]
On some days Marilyn Datillo, a vaccine nurse, used to see 900 people enter Mercy Covid Vaccine Clinic in Kirkwood, a St Louis suburb. Now, she said sometimes less than 20 people visit the clinic in one day – even though only 55% of Missouri residents are fully vaccinated and just 22% are boosted. When […]
Even as the U.S. closes in on a milestone of 200 million people fully vaccinated against COVID-19, cases and hospitalizations are spiking again, including in highly inoculated corners of the country like New England. New cases in the U.S. climbed from an average of nearly 95,000 a day on Nov. 22 to almost 119,000 a […]
CHICAGO — Oral arguments were heard Tuesday in the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals regarding eight Black Lives Matter protesters arrested and jailed beyond 48 hours after a 2020 demonstration in Rockford. The plaintiffs were arrested on a Friday evening and held for three days without bond hearings, a common practice in Winnebago County because there is […]
While fears of the omicron variant continued to wane, as seen through the rally in global stock markets, global tally for the coronavirus-borne illness rose to a total of 266.6 million on Friday and the death toll climbed to 5.27 million, according to data aggregated by Johns Hopkins University. The U.S. leads the . . […]
But public health experts nationwide are stressing that the overwhelming majority of the nation’s coronavirus cases are still caused by the highly transmissible delta variant, which has led to some of the worst spikes of the pandemic. By early Tuesday, the United States had tallied nearly 49.3 million coronavirus cases since the first infection surfaced […]
Another 133,000 children tested positive for COVID-19 last week, according to a new report from the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children’s Hospital Association. Hospital admissions among children have also increased by 20% over the last week, according to federal data. The Northeast is currently seeing its highest number of child cases since the beginning of pandemic, […]