Solar panels. (Photo by American Public Power Association on Unsplash) Eager investors keep coming. It is the Amazon employee who see the company’s share price rise steadily; the ex-venture capitalist looking to make big financial returns in a new hip sector; Parents or parents-to-be who panic about leaving their children with an earth ravaged by … Read more
Tents will be pitched on a grassy lot along Dexter Avenue in Seattle in January 2021. The Space Needle and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation can be seen in the background. (GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota) A state judge removed the “Compassion Seattle” measure from the November vote on Friday and said the proposal … Read more
Tents line a street in downtown Seattle. (GeekWire Photo / John Cook) The group driving the Compassion Seattle electoral measure, which aims to revise city policy in relation to its ongoing homelessness crisis, will turn in more than 60,000 signatures Thursday to qualify the measure for the November election. Supporters of the initiative will need … Read more
A famine has struck at least 350,000 people in the conflict-ravaged region of Tigray in northern Ethiopia, a famine that is currently bigger than anywhere else in the world, the United Nations and international aid agencies said on Thursday. With their joint announcement, the humanitarian officials described the looming crisis in Tigray for the first … Read more
At the state level, the Republican-backed bills purporting to fight electoral fraud are apparently partly conservative paranoia – but as such they are designed to ward off screams of fraud, allegations about ballots sent in from China or conjured up in Italy. That kind of averting strategy can fail, of course, but right now, exercises … Read more
Several Indian states are lacking an antifungal drug to treat black fungus, or mucormycosis, a disease that Indian health officials are increasingly discovering in patients who have recovered from Covid-19. At least 52 people have died of black fungus in Maharashtra state, where the disease is increasing in patients who have recovered from Covid-19. This … Read more
NEW DELHI – His Covid-19 task force did not meet for months. His health minister reassured the public in March that India had reached the “final” of the pandemic. A few weeks earlier, Prime Minister Narendra Modi bragged to world leaders that his nation had triumphed over the coronavirus. India “saved mankind from a major … Read more
Here’s what you need to know: Nurses preparing vaccines at a nursing home in Spain last week.Credit…Manu Brabo/Getty Images The European Union has been besieged by problems since it approved its first coronavirus vaccine in December and rushed to begin a vast immunization campaign, but now its woes have snowballed into a full-blown crisis. With … Read more