Quarantine comes to an end for the last of the hantavirus ship passengers in Nebraska

OMAHA, Nebraska — The last eight American passengers who endured 42 days in a specialized hospital quarantine unit after exposure to an unusual hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship that killed three people have left the Nebraska facility. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services officials on Monday confirmed the end of the quarantine. “Through…

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Private companies want to geoengineer the sky. The rain billions of people depend on could be disrupted

Private firms are making plans to cool the planet by releasing reflective particles high into the atmosphere, an idea known as solar geoengineering or solar radiation modification (SRM). With a war chest of private capital estimated at more than the entire globe’s SRM research budget, the US-Israeli startup Stardust Solutions has unveiled a proprietary engineered…

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