McConnell and GOP reject House’s $2,000 stimulus checks
Mitch McConnell and Senate Republicans finished off any imminent chance of approving $2,000 stimulus checks on…
Pelosi to seat Republican in contested Iowa race
Speaker Nancy Pelosi confirmed Wednesday that she plans to seat the GOP winner of a contested…
‘We don’t sleep when it’s raining’: the mental health impact of flooding
Research show flood victims in UK nine times more likely to experience long-term mental health issues…
How Congress and coronavirus could quash Trump’s Electoral College gambit
President Donald Trump’s last-gasp bid to overturn his 2020 election defeat appears doomed on Jan. 6,…
‘A critical time’: how Covid-19 piled the pressure on conservation efforts
Ecotourism revenues plummeted around the world as some areas saw poaching and land grabs increase in…
How 6 states and D.C. are taking coronavirus relief into their own hands
Cash-strapped states and cities have spent six months waiting and pleading for help from the feds…
Floods, storms and searing heat: 2020 in extreme weather
While Covid has dominated the news, the world has also felt the effects of human-driven global…
Moths to monkeys: 503 new species identified by UK scientists
Spectacular discovery of monkey in Myanmar among new species described this year by Natural History Museum…
Iceland’s innovations to reach net-zero – in pictures
Isolated and challenged by a harsh climate and battered by the financial crisis of 2008, Iceland…
Specieswatch: monarch butterfly needs urgent protection
Eastern populations have fallen by 80% but US government says it is unworthy of special attention…