Listen: The Arctic Is Quite Literally On Fire
“There’s really an urgency about this, and this is nothing new.”
Firefighters near the village of Batagay in Russia.
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On today's episode of News O'Clock, we discuss:
1. An early test of a potential coronavirus vaccine showed promising results.
2. Hospitals are being told to skip the CDC and report their COVID-19 data straight to the Trump administration.
3. ICE has backed down and will now let international students stay in the US, even if their colleges are online-only this fall.
4. Rihanna has a new skincare line dropping at the end of the month, and our bank accounts are NOT ready.
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5. Nick Cannon has been dumped by ViacomCBS after repeating anti-Semitic conspiracy theories on his podcast.
6. Howie Mandel is fine, despite a rumor going around TikTok.
And Arctic wildfires are alarmingly bad this year. We're joined by Mark Parrington, a senior scientist with the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, who has sounded the alarm on the unprecedented levels of gases being released in the region.
Firefighters extinguish a wildfire in the Luhansk region of Ukraine, July 8.
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