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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QT4TQE4FzUs On Monday, scientists at the National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado Boulder reported that the Arctic sea ice has shrank to the second-lowest level on record. Satellites recorded a sea ice covering of 3.74 million square kilometres on 15 September, which is only the second time in the past forty years that the ice...

Coronavirus continued to spread this week following an increasingly familiar course. That meant surging cases across South Asia, Latin America, and parts of the contiguous United States, creeping infections in Africa, mounting caseloads across the Middle East, and an abundance of caution across Asia Pacific, with only Western Europe showing consistent signs of recovery. Infections across Latin America surpassed...

In November 2015, the World Anti-Doping Agency released a highly anticipated report into allegations of misconduct within Russian athletics. Finding that the Russian authorities had engaged in a widespread pattern of doping, cover-ups, and extortion, WADA recommended the banning of Russia from all international athletic endeavour. The International Association of Athletics Federations - recently rebranded as World Athletics -...