Category Archives: Science
Leaders dial up doomsday warning to kick-start climate talks
GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — World leaders turned up the heat and resorted to end-of-the-world rhetoric Monday in an attempt to bring new urgency to sputtering international climate negotiations.
Scientists hope to link lab bench with pharmacy shelves through Edmonton drug plant
EDMONTON — University researchers and drug developers in Edmonton are joining forces to create what they say will be Canada's first facility that can take the latest scientific pharmaceutical insights from the lab through clinical trials to the marketp...
Quebec lifts capacity limits in bars and restaurants — but dancing still banned
MONTREAL — As Quebec lifted capacity restrictions in bars and restaurants on Monday, owners were hoping to regain more of the business lost when the limits were imposed more than a year ago to curb the spread of COVID-19. Renaud Poulin,
Ugandan kids lose hope in long school closure amid pandemic
BUSIA, Uganda (AP) — Dressed in his school uniform, Mathias Okwako jumped into the mud and started his daily search for gold, a commodity that may be closer to his grasp than another precious asset: an education.
Ugandan kids lose hope in long school closure amid pandemic
BUSIA, Uganda (AP) — Dressed in his school uniform, Mathias Okwako jumped into the mud and started his daily search for gold, a commodity that may be closer to his grasp than another precious asset: an education.
‘Nothing else here’: Why it’s so hard for world to quit coal
DHANBAD, India (AP) — Every day, Raju gets on his bicycle and unwillingly pedals the world a tiny bit closer to climate catastrophe.
Supreme Court questions controversial Texas abortion law
WASHINGTON (AP) — A majority of the Supreme Court signaled Monday they would allow abortion providers to pursue a court challenge to the controversial Texas law that has virtually ended abortion in the nation’s second-largest state after six weeks of
Ex-UN climate chief doesn’t see Paris-type moment in Glasgow
GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — Christiana Figueres knows how to hammer out a climate deal, and she doesn’t expect the United Nations conference that just started in Glasgow to end with the kind of big moment she engineered in Paris
Health officials in New Brunswick report 32 new COVID-19 cases, one more death
FREDERICTON — Health officials in New Brunswick are reporting 32 new cases of COVID-19 today and another virus-related death. They say a person in their 80s in the Campbellton region died because of COVID-19, bringing the death toll to 117 since
Quebec reports 567 new COVID-19 cases, one more death
MONTREAL — Quebec is reporting 567 new COVID-19 cases today, along with one more death related to the virus. Health officials issued a release saying hospitalizations fell by eight to 236, while the number of patients in intensive care dropped by
