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Victoria Gatenby — Aljazeera A dam near a major mining site has recently burst in southeastern Brazil. More than 115 individuals have been killed and hundreds more are still missing. The wave of mud is continuing to move and officials worry it will reach a major river nearby contaminating water…

A two-year investigation done by Ryan Kennedy, an assistant professor at Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, found that the air quality on Carnival cruise ships contained concentrations of particulate matter high enough to potentially harm human health. Carnival has since…

With almost 65,000 instances of dog bites reported from 2013 to 2017, Ohio lawmakers are considering tightening their dog laws. In the state, dog attacks requiring hospital admission have become much more common, affecting children and adults alike. A new bill considers holding the dog owner…

The World Health Organization (WHO) has laid out the top 10 threats to global health for 2019. One top threat is the hesitancy of people to vaccinate themselves and their loved ones. Another challenge humans face is the growing problem of antibiotic resistance. For more information, click here.

India’s population stands at a booming 1.31 billion people and has caused several concerns over the decades due to a rise in poverty, decline in jobs, and poor literacy rate. Politicians have now begun to debate a quick-fix to India’s population problem: a two-child policy for Indian citizens. For…

The outbreak of Ebola in the Congo is identified now as the second largest outbreak of Ebola in its history. The number of those afflicted has reached 426, with a total of 198 deaths. A significant barrier to the containment of the disease is unusual hostility and attacks by rebel groups that health…

— BBC NEWS Russia has been accused of breaking the 1987 Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty, banning land-based nuclear missiles in Europe, by Nato and the United States. Due to these actions, the United States has now threatened to withdraw from the treaty. US Secretary of State has given…

In response to the recent incident at the southern U.S. border where border agents fired clouds of tear gas at women and children, experts are looking into the potential of tear gas to have a dangerous and long-lasting effect. The CDC says tear gas can cause blurred vision, burning and swelling in…

Due to increased deaths from drug overdoses and suicides, the CDC reports that life expectancy in the United States has declined from 2016 to 2017. The estimate of how long a person born in 2017 can expect to live in the U.S. is 78.6 years, a decrease of 0.1 year from 2016, as reported by government…

Jeremy Bogaisky — Forbes Officials may have found the reason as to why the Lion Air Flight 610 crashed on October 29 killing all 189 people on board. An automatic anti-stall system seems to have malfunctioned during the flight, which measures the positions of the wings relative to the flow of air.…

On Monday, October 29th at 6:30 a.m., a Boeing plane en route from Jakarta to Pangkal Pinang crashed into the sea minutes after takeoff, and authorities believe all 189 people on board were killed. As a result of this event, Indonesia has ordered an inspection of all Boeing 737 Max 8 planes, one of…

BBC News: After a major quake and tsunami rocked Palu, 408 people were killed and about 500 were injured. The full scale of casualties and damage is still unknown. The earthquake had a magnitude of 7.5, but occurred at a rather shallow depth and caused a tsunami. Find out more of the details here.

Mosquitos carrying the West Nile Virus have been found in Brookline, MA. There have been six cases in Massachusetts thus far and the public is being urged to take precautionary steps towards bug protection. These include the use of screens, bug repellent containing DEET or Picaridin, wearing long…

William Branigin and Ashley Halsey III — Washington Post A 38 year old commercial Boeing 737 crashed soon after takeoff, killing more than 100 people. Flight 972 was leaving from Jose Marti International Airport and bound for Holguin, Cuba. Cuban’s president, Miguel Diaz-Canel, other government…