By Rachel Metz, CNN Business Google Maps is making it easier to find the latest information about wildfires as part of a push to ensure the immensely popular app is more useful during emergencies. On Wednesday, Google said it’s adding a new wildfire layer to Google Maps, which users will be able to turn on
Continue ReadingCNN By Rachel Metz, CNN Business Google Maps is making it easier to find the latest information about wildfires as part of a push to ensure the immensely popular app is more useful during emergencies. On Wednesday, Google said it’s adding a new wildfire layer to Google Maps, which users will be able to turn
Continue ReadingBy Sean Lyngaas, CNN Leaders of the House Oversight and Reform Committee are questioning the FBI’s handling of a July ransomware attack on a Florida-based IT firm that compromised up to 1,500 businesses. Reps. Carolyn Maloney, a New York Democrat, and James Comer, a Kentucky Republican, have requested a briefing from FBI Director Christopher Wray
Continue Readingmarpichel (CNN) — Cuando se trata de socializar, Inglaterra tiene sus pubs. Italia tiene sus piazzas. E Islandia tiene sus piscinas al aire libre. En una tarde de nieve en febrero, la piscina al aire libre en el West End de la capital, Reykjavik, estaba llena. Las risas y charlas llenaban el aire. Este es lugar
Continue Readingdzaratsian Nota del editor: El artículo es de The School of Life, en asociación con CNN, hace parte de una serie sobre la vida más filosófica durante la pandemia de coronavirus. (CNN) — Lo que la mayoría de nosotros anhelamos por encima de todo es la ‘seguridad’, la sensación de que, por fin, estamos a
Continue ReadingMariana Toro Londres (CNN) — No existe tal cosa como un nivel “seguro” de consumo de alcohol, y un mayor consumo de este está asociado con una peor salud cerebral, según un nuevo estudio. En un estudio observacional, que aún no ha sido revisado por pares, investigadores de la Universidad de Oxford estudiaron la relación
Continue ReadingJuan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — Si tienes una enfermedad cardíaca, consumir una pequeña cantidad de alcohol todos los días está relacionado con un menor riesgo de sufrir otro ataque cardíaco, un accidente cerebrovascular, angina (dolor cardíaco debido a arterias constreñidas) o una muerte prematura, según un nuevo gran estudio. “Esta no es la población en
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson Lago Urmia, Irán (CNN) — Los ferries que antes llevaban y traían a los turistas a los pequeños islotes del lago Urmia de Irán están oxidados, sin poder moverse, en lo que se está convirtiendo rápidamente en una llanura salina. Hace apenas dos décadas, Urmia era el lago más grande de Medio Oriente,
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The Deschutes Land Trust and Western Monarch Advocates have joined forces to boost habitat for the imperiled Western monarch butterfly in Oregon.
Continue ReadingMariana Toro (CNN) — Aquí algo que quizá ya sabías: el agua puede hacer maravillas por tu salud. El líquido comprende aproximadamente el 60% de nuestro peso corporal y permite que nuestros órganos internos rindan al máximo. Regula la temperatura de nuestro cuerpo, mantiene nuestras articulaciones lubricadas y transporta nutrientes a nuestras células. El agua
Continue ReadingJuan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — Por primera vez desde junio, una previsión global de los Centros para el Control y la Prevención de Enfermedades de EE.UU. (CDC, por sus siglas en inglés) publicada este miércoles prevé que las nuevas muertes por covid-19 probablemente disminuyan en las próximas cuatro semanas. La última vez que se predijo
Continue ReadingGermán Padinger (CNN) — Cuando se trata de mantener a raya al covid-19, pocos países parecen estar dispuestos a ir tan lejos como China. A medida que los países de todo el mundo reabren las fronteras y flexibilizan las restricciones por el coronavirus, Beijing redobla su estrategia de “cero” virus. El último ejemplo: un complejo
Continue ReadingBy Evan McMorris-Santoro and Meridith Edwards, CNN Robin Steenman pulled her daughter out of public school over a mask mandate last year. She’s now in private school and misses public school. But Steenman is keeping her out not because of masks, but because of lesson plans she says make students feel bad about their race.
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CNN, NEWS 12 CONNECTICUT, INC., KCAL, KCBS, WZTV, KPIX, WPLG By Evan McMorris-Santoro and Meridith Edwards, CNN Robin Steenman pulled her daughter out of public school over a mask mandate last year. She’s now in private school and misses public school. But Steenman is keeping her out not because of masks, but because of lesson
Continue ReadingBy Clare Foran and Ali Zaslav, CNN Senate Democrats approved a $3.5 trillion budget resolution early Wednesday morning, setting the stage in the weeks and months to come for the party to craft and attempt to pass a sweeping economic package expanding the social safety net that President Joe Biden has made a signature agenda
Continue ReadingCNN, CNN BUSINESS By Clare Foran and Ali Zaslav, CNN Senate Democrats approved a $3.5 trillion budget resolution early Wednesday morning, setting the stage in the weeks and months to come for the party to craft and attempt to pass a sweeping economic package expanding the social safety net that President Joe Biden has made
Continue ReadingCNN By Chloe Melas, CNN The fight over Britney Spears’ 13-year conservatorship returns to court in Los Angeles on Wednesday. Judge Brenda Penny is expected to consider several petitions filed since the last hearing in the case on July 14. Jamie Spears, the singer’s father, has served as her conservator since 2008. Earlier this month,
Continue ReadingBy Chloe Melas, CNN The fight over Britney Spears’ 13-year conservatorship returns to court in Los Angeles on Wednesday. Judge Brenda Penny is expected to consider several petitions filed since the last hearing in the case on July 14. Jamie Spears, the singer’s father, has served as her conservator since 2008. Earlier this month, he
Continue ReadingBy Jeff Ehling Click here for updates on this story HOUSTON, TX (KTRK) — A suspect has been charged with murder after skeletal remains believed to be those of missing Houston woman Ashley Guillory were found Tuesday in Fort Bend County. Willie Pat Brown, 48, has been charged with murder in connection with Guillory’s death.
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An international collaboration, including Oregon State University researcher Bev Law, says the health of a terrestrial ecosystem can be largely determined by three variables: vegetation’s ability to uptake carbon, its efficiency in using carbon and its efficiency in using water.
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