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Poor Children Are Twice As Likely To Die Before 5th Birthday Than Rich: UN

2016-06-28 13:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Huffington Post: The number of children who do not attend school is rising, child marriage has not dropped in decades and millions of young children will die mostly preventable deaths by 2030 if global poverty is not addressed, UNICEF said in a bleak report issued on Tuesday. Poor children are twice as likely as rich children to die before age 5, and poor girls are more than twice as likely to become child brides in signs of troubling inequality, said the annual report by the United Nations' children's agency....

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After Brexit, the business voice on climate matters more than ever

2016-06-27 14:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Climate Home: The last few days has prompted many questions around Britain`s future climate ambition and whether Brexit will affect the implementation of the Paris Agreement. But as we brace for a period of uncertainty, we can see even stronger reasons to reap the benefits of investing in the opportunities created by the low-carbon economy. The fundamentals of the energy transition remain unchanged. Tackling climate change presents an unprecedented economic opportunity, and Paris has ensured that the path...

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Climate change could have an even worse impact on Boston than previously expected

2016-06-23 01:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Boston Globe: The consequences of climate change on Boston are expected to be far more calamitous than previous studies have suggested, a new report commissioned by the city says. In the worst case scenarios, sea levels could rise more than 10 feet by the end of the century -- nearly twice what was previously predicted -- plunging about 30 percent of Boston under water. Temperatures in 2070 could exceed 90 degrees for 90 days a year, compared with an average of 11 days now. And changes in precipitation could...

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Brain training is nothing more than a placebo: study

2016-06-22 20:45:54| Extremetech

You might like to think you can make yourself smarter, and that's the basis of the $1 billion brain training industry. It's looking like it's all nonsense, though.

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