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The day before covering a fashion week in virtual reality felt much like the day before any industry event, only instead of renting outfits and planning travel routes, I was downloading Google Chrome extensions and over-thinking the creation of my digital avatar.

Lake Powell has dropped nearly 100 feet in the past two years amid what scientists have determined is the worst multiyear drought in at least 1,200 years.

Across China, cities are locking down their residents, supply lines are rupturing, and officials are scrambling to secure the movement of basic goods -- as its largest ever recorded outbreak of Covid-19 threatens to spiral into a national crisis of the government's own making.

This time last year, the brand new, stunningly effective Covid-19 vaccines were rolling out across the country, injecting a strong note of optimism into the United States' once fumbling pandemic response.

It feels more comfortable and normal living alongside Covid-19. Nearly 60% of adults and 75% of children have antibodies indicating that they've been infected. But we can expect surges in cases in the South in the summer and in the North in the winter, one expert says.

"You don't make the timeline, the virus makes the timeline."

Shanghai is further tightening its stringent lockdown measures after China's top leader Xi Jinping pledged to "unswervingly" double down on the country's controversial zero-Covid policy, leaving millions confined to their homes with no end in sight.

Tapper, 53, got his positive test at the network's Washington bureau on Monday, May 9, just ahead of his usual show at 4 p.m.

The United States has a "very serious" problem with Covid-19 vaccination uptake, a top health official has warned.

Singapore's dengue outbreak is worsening with the rising temperatures in the country.

Coronavirus cases and hospitalizations are rising across the continent, spurred by Omicron subvariants BA.4 and BA.5.

A weeklong period in mid-June saw various overlapping and concurrent extreme weather events affect the U.S. Cable news networks CNN and MSNBC mentioned climate change in a combined 21% of segments on these events. Corporate broadcast news outlets ABC, CBS, and NBC, meanwhile, mentioned climate change in just 9% of their combined segments.

When Garrett Dickman drove through Yosemite National Park early this week, he passed through a diverse band of large trees -- conifer, red fir, lodgepole pine -- and noticed a grim pattern: many of the trees were either dead or dying.

When Garrett Dickman drove through Yosemite National Park early this week, he passed through a diverse band of large trees -- conifer, red fir, lodgepole pine -- and noticed a grim pattern: many of the trees were either dead or dying.

​Since the 1990’s, I’ve had a front row seat for TV news's abject failure in covering climate change.

Devin, the founder of a cryptocurrency startup based in San Francisco, woke up one day in February to the most bizarre phone call of his life.

Omicron offshoot BA.5 is now dominating US infections, proving the pandemic is far from over.

While Covid-19 began to feel like an afterthought to many Americans, a new variant snuck up on the US and is now driving up infection and hospitalization rates. The new subvariant of Omicron, BA.5, shows how the virus continues to evolve around the best efforts of humanity to defeat it.

Media outlets such as CNN, CBS and ABC are urging Americans to take back up coronavirus prevention measures such as masking in the wake of a new variant.

Media outlets such as CNN, CBS and ABC are urging Americans to take back up coronavirus prevention measures such as masking in the wake of a new variant.

While the world's climate is hot and getting hotter, the US government is frozen in time.

Escalating cases in the US and Europe are a reminder of past summer waves, and a warning for the future.

Mark Zuckerberg's Meta is being sued by virtual reality startup MetaX for trademark infringement over its name. See details on Meta's business debacle, here.

Escalating cases in the US and Europe are a reminder of past summer waves, and a warning for the future.

The flooding in Kentucky throws a light on a wider truth: Low-income communities and communities of color bear the brunt of the climate crisis.

The CDC’s recommendations to slow the spread of COVID-19 are changing. People who aren’t up to date on their vaccinations will no longer need to stay home. Social distancing and ‘test to stay’ programs in schools might go away.

A majority of Americans acknowledge that climate change is real and that humans contribute to it. But a lot of people in eastern Kentucky might not know they're feeling the effects of the climate crisis as they recover from disastrous flooding.

It's important news that's finally being given the priority treatment it deserves.

Here's what else you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day.

Here's what else you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day.

Here's what else you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day.

Here's what else you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day.

CNN reported the package included a note slamming Mark Zuckerberg, as well as the relationship between academics and virtual reality developments.

The image is altered, a spokesperson for CNN told USA TODAY, and the article and the headline in the image are fabricated.

Conservative media may be trying to cause confusion when it comes to how climate change impacts storms, but the science is "overwhelmingly clear."

Conservative media may be trying to cause confusion when it comes to how climate change impacts storms, but the science is "overwhelmingly clear."