British Reporter — Index shows 1 in 5 people in the developing world living in multidimensional poverty. Hundreds of millions lack adequate nutrition, sanitation, housing and good cooking facilities. But, India’s MPI poverty rate fell from 55.1% to 16.4% as millions were lifted out
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Generally, as people age, the rate of mortality increases. Yet there’s one period, the timeframe between a child’s first day of life and age 5, when mortality tends to decrease as the child gets older.
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For first time astronomers see black hole spewing stellar remains years after consuming star. In October 2018, a small star was ripped to shreds when it wandered too close to a black hole in a galaxy located 665 million light years away from
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British Reporter — Tropical trees in Australia’s rainforests have been dying at double the previous rate since the 1980s, seemingly because of climate impacts, according to the findings of a long-term international study published in Nature today. This research has found the
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Economic policy expert says Russian invasion will worsen things, but long-range expectations still near Fed goal for now according to University of Harvard. Inflation continued to soar in February, with a key measure hitting a 40-year high, according to federal data released Thursday.
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British Reporter — ‘The war has set off a chain of events that could alter the balance of power for good,’ writes Peter Frankopan, Professor of Global History at the University of Oxford, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Director of the Oxford Centre for
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New study marries genetics, archaeology and suggests groups in ancient Africa traveled, swapped goods, ideas . Between 80,000 and 50,000 years ago, people across early eastern and southern Africa left behind traces of an explosion of symbolic expression reflected in far more intensive
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Astronomers have been waiting decades for the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope, which promises to peer farther into space than ever before. But if humans want to actually reach our nearest stellar neighbor, they will need to wait quite a
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British Reporter — Professor Susan Jebb , Oxford’s diet and population health expert maintains, ‘We cannot meet Net Zero targets without changing our diet. Professor Jebb points out that agriculture accounts for more CO2 emissions than transportation, and she says ‘It is
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California, home of the freeway and the car-based lifestyle, has long struggled with air pollution — and been a pioneer in cleaning up the air, for example in vehicle emission standards. But in recent years, a new threat to air quality has
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