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World Bank: 'extreme poverty' to fall below 10% world population first time
2015-10-04 21:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The number of people living in extreme poverty is likely to fall for the first time below 10% of the worlds population in 2015, the World Bank said on Sunday as it revised its benchmark for measuring the problem. This is the best story in the world today, said World Bank president Jim Yong Kim. These projections show us that we are the first generation in human history that can end extreme poverty. Extreme poverty has long been defined as living on or below $1.25 a day, but the World Banks...
World's 'extremely poor' to fall below 10% of population for first time: World Bank
2015-10-04 17:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Economic Times: The number of people living in extreme poverty is likely to fall for the first time below 10 percent of the world's population in 2015, the World Bank said on Sunday as it revised its benchmark for measuring the problem. Extreme poverty has long been defined as living on or below $1.25 a day, but the World Bank's adjustment now sets the poverty line at $1.90 a day. The Bank said the change reflects new data on differences in the cost of living across countries, while preserving the real purchasing...
Over 57% of global population still offline - ITU
2015-09-21 14:05:00| Telecompaper Headlines
(Telecompaper) The number of people online all over the world has grown to 3.2 billion, up from 2.9 billion last year and equating to around 43 percent of the global population, according to new figures from the 2015 edition of the State of Broadband report published by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU). However, while access to the internet is approaching saturation levels in the developed world, the report reveals that some 4 billion people, or 57 percent of the world's population, remain offline. Released to coincide with the forthcoming United Nations Sustainable Development Summit in New York and the parallel meeting of the Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development on 26 September, the fourth edition of the State of Broadband report confirms the ITU's forecast from earlier this year, adding that the internet is only accessible to 35 percent of people in developing countries. The situation in the 48 UN-designated Least Developed Countries is particularly critical, said the ITU, with over 90 percent of people without any kind of internet connectivity.
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Global population to reach 9 billion by 2045: Yudhoyono
2015-09-12 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Tempo: The global population is expected to reach 9 billion by 2045, the former President of Indonesia, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, who is also the Chairman of the Global Green Growth Institute, said Friday, September 11. "We are aware that the considerable increase in the global population will raise human needs for foods, energy and so on," he said while delivering a lecture at the commemoration of Padjadjaran Universitys 58th anniversary at the Graha Sanusi Hardjadinata building in Bandung, West Java,...
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Exxon Valdez Spill Had Big Impact on Fish Population, Study Says
2015-09-09 14:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Al Jazeera: Federal scientists may have found a link between the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill and a decline of herring and pink salmon populations in Prince William Sound. In a study published Tuesday in the online journal Scientific Reports, researchers from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) found that embryonic salmon and herring exposed to even very low levels of crude oil can develop heart defects. Herring and pink salmon juveniles that were exposed to crude oil as embryos grew...
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