February2022

The US coastline is expected to experience up to a foot (30 centimeters) of sea-level rise by the year 2050 because of climate change, making damaging floods far more common than today, a US government study...

Australia’s largest energy firm and biggest carbon emitter AGL on Monday rejected a takeover bid from green-minded tech billionaire Mike Cannon Brookes, who planned to shutter the firm’s coal-fired power plants. Atlassian co-founder Cannon Brookes had...

Spain and Denmark reiterated on Monday their opposition to plans by the European Union to label gas and nuclear energy projects as green investments, an issue that has divided the bloc. The two nations believe such...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson to announce an end to all pandemic legal curbs in England, insisting it is time to move on despite political opposition and unease from the UN’s health agency. Two years after...

There have been no complaints about negative side effects after the use of the Sputnik M coronavirus vaccine in adolescents aged from 12 to 17, Alexander Gintsburg, director of the Gamaleya Center, the vaccine developer, told...

Immunity to COVID-19 in children can last for up to nine months, Yevgeny Timakov, a specialist in infectious diseases and vaccines, told TASS on Thursday. “Scientific studies indicate that immunity in children lasts longer than in...

South Africa’s health products regulator said on Friday it had approved the use of Merck’s Covid-19 pill for high-risk adults. The South African Health Product Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA) said in a statement it has “authorised, with...

China on Monday denied responsibility for a rocket set to slam into the Moon, after experts said the piece of space junk likely came from Beijing’s lunar exploration programme. Astronomers initially thought the wayward object was...

HSBC’s pre-tax profit more than doubled in 2021, the firm said on Tuesday as it also announced plans to initiate a share buyback of as much as $1 billion for investors, reports BSS. In a statement...

Tokyo stocks slumped and oil prices rose on Tuesday after Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered his troops into two Moscow-backed rebel regions of Ukraine. The benchmark Nikkei 225 index was down 1.46 percent or 391.72 points...