| But in these past 30 years, the emissions of the poorest 50% of people have grown hardly at all: They represented a little under 7% of global emissions in 1990, and they remain a little over 7% of global emissions today. By contrast, the richest 10% of people are responsible for 52% of cumulative global emissions — and the 1% for a full 15%. |
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| The randomized controlled trial conducted in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, found that Wolbachia-carrying mosquitoes reduced the number of dengue cases in the city by 77 percent and dengue hospitalizations by 86 percent. In a new study in Medellín, dengue cases have declined by 89 percent since Wolbachia mosquitoes started being released in 2015. |
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| In 1858, before Standard Oil was founded, lighting a home required whale oil, which cost up to $3 a gallon, putting illumination out of reach for all but the wealthiest of households. By 1885, after Standard Oil figured out how to refine kerosene, it cost just 8 cents a gallon to brighten the night. |
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| men die on average 5 years earlier than women |
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| we estimate that [Borneo's] 1973 forest area had declined by 168,493 km2 (30.2%) in 2010 |
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| In just the first month of payments, the expanded Child Tax Credit piece of the stimulus bill kept three million American children out of poverty |
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| A Harvard study of some 4 million implicit-bias tests taken between 2007 and 2016 noted a drop in several biases measured, including those related to race and sexual orientation. Bias based on body weight was the only one that increased. |
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| studies show that some 95 to 98 percent of attempts to lose weight fail |
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| Over the past 8 years, the San Francisco area has added 676,000 jobs, but only 176,000 housing units |
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| the UN added up the most recent pledges of parties to the 2015 Paris Agreement. If all 192 keep their promises, the synthesis found, the planet would still be on track to warm 2.7 degrees Celsius, or 4.9 degrees Fahrenheit, by the end of the century |
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| on any given day as many as 3000 migrants may be being exploited in New Zealand |
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| batteries used for electric cars and buses are actually terrible for the environment |
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| In 2019, a second group of researchers published a more rigorous and extensive study, and its findings were even more dire. In the course of just the previous decade, grasslands in Germany had, on average, lost a third of their arthropod species and two-thirds of their arthropod biomass. (Terrestrial arthropods include spiders and centipedes in addition to insects.) In woodlands, the number of arthropod species had dropped by more than a third, and biomass by forty per cent. |
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| There were three injury-causing shark attacks reported in Massachusetts in the entire 20th century; one, in 1936, was fatal. Since 2012, white sharks at Cape Cod have been implicated in five attacks |
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| Russia, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, between 1992 and 2001 or 2002 -- this is the period of shock therapy where the actual Russian economy shrank dramatically -- during that period the total number of civil servants went from 1 million to 1.25 million |
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| Leaded fuel reduced the IQ of everyone born before 1990 by ~4.25% |
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| Jordan gets more aid from the United States than any other country except Israel and Afghanistan. |
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| 60 percent of independents disapprove of what Joe Biden is doing as president |
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| A recent study in Bangladesh, which has yet to be peer-reviewed but is considered one of the most rigorous to date to tackle masking, linked wearing surgical masks with an 11.2 percent decrease in COVID-19 symptoms and antibodies, while cloth masks were associated with only a 5 percent decrease. |
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| Post-MLK-assassination race riots reduced Democratic vote share in surrounding counties by 2 percent, which was enough to tip the 1968 election to Nixon |
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| In 2020, women earned 82 cents to each dollar men earned |
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