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…