Month: September 2020

The US has the highest number of coronavirus deaths in the world as it passes a grim 200,000 milestone, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. More than 6.8 million cases have been reported across the US since the outbreak began. The Maryland-based university recorded 200,005 deaths and 6,861,211 cases as of Tuesday – more
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September 22nd, 2020 by Brad Rouse  For those deeply interested in our future energy system and how it will evolve, I highly recommend two in-depth papers published in the last year.  The 2035 Report, a product of a team led by UCAL Berkeley and GridLab, explores a 2035 US energy system that is 90% carbon
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China, the world’s worst polluter, has pledged to become carbon neutral by 2060. President Xi Jinping, in a virtual speech at the United Nations General Assembly, made the announcement after insisting it would hit a peak in carbon dioxide emissions before 2030. It marks the first time China has said it will end its net
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It is possible to detect growing dismay and anger among business leaders at how Boris Johnson’s government is handling the pandemic. Some have been consistently critical of the government throughout the crisis, particularly those in aviation, which has been battered by the lockdown and subsequent imposition of quarantine rules on travellers returning to Britain. Watch
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7:00 AM ET Heather Dinich Close ESPN Senior Writer College football reporter Joined ESPN.com in 2007 Graduate of Indiana University Adam Rittenberg Close ESPN Senior Writer College football reporter. Joined ESPN.com in 2008. Graduate of Northwestern University. Like many Big Ten fans, James Franklin spent the second Sunday in September frantically searching for good news.
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The government has abandoned plans to let people officially change gender without medical checks – but ministers have promised to make the process cheaper and “more straightforward”. In its response to a consultation on the 2004 Gender Recognition Act, the government concluded that “the balance struck in this legislation is correct”. “There are proper checks
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People in Scotland have been banned from visiting other households indoors, in tough new restrictions that go further than those announced for England. First minister Nicola Sturgeon said the COVID-19 restrictions would come to force from tomorrow. “We intend, as Northern Ireland did yesterday, to also introduce nationwide additional restrictions on household gatherings, similar to
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An international team of scientists said Monday it had joined forces to combat the spread of anti-Semitism online with the help of artificial intelligence. The project Decoding Anti-Semitism includes discourse analysts, computational linguists and historians who will develop a “highly complex, AI-driven approach to identifying online anti-Semitism,” the Alfred Landecker Foundation, which supports the project,
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