COVID-19

Ensuring Biodiversity Now will Prevent Pandemics Later

By Samira Sadeque UNITED NATIONS – A future repetition of the current COVID-19 pandemic is preventable with massive cooperation on international and local levels and by ensuring biological diversity preservation around the world, experts recently said. […]

Health & Environment News

Climate change turning Antarctica “green”

LONDON – Antarctica conjures images of an unbroken white wilderness but blooms of algae are giving parts of the frozen continent an increasingly green tinge. Warming temperatures due to climate change are helping the formation […]

COVID-19

First doctor dies from coronavirus in Chile

Ross Brown/The Santiago Times Staff SANTIAGO – Chile’s Sótero Del Río Hospital has confirmed the death of a doctor, who had contracted COVID-19. In a tweet Tuesday, the healthcare facility mourned the death of gastroenterologist […]