Since 2010 the number of pedestrians killed by cars in Europe and US has steadily increased every year, in the States by 41% in the ten years between 2008 and 2018. It is more dangerous, per kilometer of travel, to be a pedestrian than to be a driver or passenger in a vehicle. Worldwide, more …
Industry has always had a nasty habit of plundering the natural world “before science has understood its importance”, says Chris Packham. And that’s what’s happening right now on the ocean floor. We know more about the surface of Mars than about the deep seabed. On almost every mission “scientists discover new species”. Yet with almost …
What is all this about, this life? Is it just a big income, a fancy house, and expensive vacations? Is it even about a good-looking girlfriend or spouse who makes other men envious? This seems to be a pervasive attitude, as the gap between rich and poor inexorably widens. Well, of course I would expect …
Abortion rates in the developed world have been declining for 25 years and are at an historic low. There were 27 abortions per 1000 women between 2010 and 2014, down from 40 per 1000 between 1990 and 1994. The total number of abortions fell from 12 million to 7 million in 2014. Because of the …
On average, U.S. adults put on one pound of weight every year. Researchers looked at the diet and weight of more than 280,000 adults taking part in three long-term research studies. Over more than 20 years of monitoring, participants were asked every four years about their weight and, among other things, how often, over the …
