WASHINGTON—Oxygen accounts for about 21 percent of Earth’s air, with the rest of our atmosphere primarily nitrogen. And most living things—including people, as we well know—need oxygen to survive. Earth’s planetary neighbor Venus offers quite a different story. Its thick and noxious atmosphere is dominated by carbon dioxide—96.5 percent—with lesser amounts of nitrogen and trace […]
BERLIN—A record-setting Norwegian mountaineer pushed back Sunday against claims that she could have done more to save the life of a Pakistani porter who slipped off a narrow trail near the peak of the world’s most treacherous mountain and died there after several hours. The circumstances of Mohammad Hassan’s July 27 death on K2, the […]
A recent research paper showing that certain subterranean microbes produce surprising amounts of oxygen—even in the absence of light—may trigger a thorough overhaul of established scientific notions about underground life. Published last month in Nature Communications, the study analyzed groundwater samples from 95 monitoring wells located 820 feet (250 meters) or more below ground level […]
The crew of five men aboard a missing submersible vessel on an expedition to explore the Titanic wreckage is projected to exhaust their oxygen supply by 7 a.m. EDT Thursday morning, according to U.S. Coast Guard projections. The vessel, named Titan and measuring 21 feet in length, vanished in the waters of Newfoundland on Sunday morning […]
MOSCOW—Nine coronavirus patients died in a Russian hospital in the southern city of Vladikavkaz after an oxygen pipe burst underground, cutting supply to an intensive care ward, Russian news agencies reported on Monday. “Nine patients with coronavirus died due to a lack of oxygen,” the TASS news agency cited the local health ministry as saying. […]
The UK will send much-needed mobile oxygen generation units to India. Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party will begin the new leadership process after Arlene Foster resigns. And an EU report says Russia and China are systematically seeking to sow mistrust in Western vaccines.
People across India scrambled for life-saving oxygen supplies on Friday and patients lay dying outside hospitals as the country recorded over 300,000 new COVID-19 cases a day for two days straight. India’s second wave has hit with such ferocity that hospitals are running out of oxygen, beds, and anti-viral drugs. Many patients have been turned away […]
A lifeguard at Seaside Heights saved the life of a 10-month-old baby who was choking on a piece of plastic and was beginning to lose consciousness on the morning of June 7. “At approximately 12:10 pm SHBP (Seaside Height Border Patrol) lifeguard, 20-year-old Pete LaQuaglia was on his break and on the boardwalk when he […]
