The Covid-19 variant that emerged in South Africa was named after the 15th letter of the Greek alphabet. The naming system, announced by the World Health Organization in May, makes public ...

Since May the World Health Organization has been using letters of the Greek alphabet, in order, to name coronavirus variants. Delta was the most dominant one, followed by eight others ...

The Atlantic hurricane season has easily exhausted its list of names this year and has already crossed off four more from a backup list of Greek alphabet names. That begs the question: what ...

Put another way, this marks just the second time in history that forecasters have had to resort to the Greek alphabet because available storm names have been exhausted. The World Meteorological ...

When that happens, the government pulls in the Greek alphabet. But don't expect to see Hurricane Alpha or Beta again. Turns out the names were Greek to a lot of people, and forecasters worried ...

In the 2005 season, six tropical cyclones earned Greek alphabet names. Starting in 2021, an alternative list of people’s names is used instead of the Greek alphabet if the regular list is ...

In May 2021, the WHO assigned coronavirus variants with clunky, alphanumeric names with letters of the Greek alphabet to simplify discussion and pronunciation while avoiding stigma (here).

Since May the World Health Organization has been using letters of the Greek alphabet, in order, to name coronavirus variants. Delta was the most dominant one, followed by eight others -- including ...