Blazes also devastated Greece, Italy, Albania, North Macedonia, Spain, Algeria and Tunisia this year, according to the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service.
Andreessen Horowitz led a $36 million financing of Mysten Labs, a crypto and blockchain infrastructure tech start-up founded by former Facebook engineers.
Homeowners are looking for new tech that can harden their properties against natural disasters that are increasing in frequency as a result of global warming.
The Shinnecock tribe is fighting to save what's left of its land as climate change prompts sea levels to rise and erode the shoreline in Long Island, New York.
While some patients had recently traveled in southern Africa, others had no travel history, suggesting that community transmission is underway in the U.S.
With Mark Zuckerberg's Oculus and Microsoft HoloLens, the doctor will see you for an appointment, or even surgery, inside an early version of a virtual world.
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