Updated booster shots have bolstered Americans’ defenses against serious Covid, reducing the risk of hospitalization by roughly 50 percent compared with certain groups inoculated with the original vaccines, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported in a pair of studies published on Friday. The research represents the agency’s first look at how the reformulated […]
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20 Nations at High Risk From Global Warming Might Halt Debt Payments
The countries want their collective $685 billion in debts forgiven so the money can be invested in climate projects.
Renewed Shelling Puts Nuclear Plant at Risk Despite U.N. Presence
The International Atomic Energy Agency was still cautiously optimistic that “permanently” stationing two experts at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant would help avert disaster.
I.A.E.A. Head Warns of Grave Risk From Fighting Near Zaporizhzhia Plant
Rafael Mariano Grossi, the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, warned that increased fighting near the Russian-occupied nuclear plant could cause an accident.
Foes Agree on Nuclear Disaster Risk in Ukraine, but Little Else
At the U.N. Security Council, Russia and its critics traded barbs over the nuclear plant on the front lines of its war in Ukraine, with each side accusing the other of courting catastrophe.
Chernobyl Survivors Fear Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Disaster Risk
They lived through what is considered the worst nuclear disaster in history. As fighting rages around the Zaporizhzhia plant, they fear another one.