2020 was a year of record population lows. Newly released Census Bureau population estimates show record lows in United States population growth, both in 2020 and for the entire 2010-to-2020 decade. California’s population shrank for the first time as far back as records go, with the Census Bureau estimates indicating that California’s population decreased by about 69,000 residents in the year ended July 1, 2020 .
The United States is not alone.
The population of South Korea, Asia’s fourth-largest economy, also fell for the first time in its history in 2020. In fact, the working-age populations of Hong Kong, Japan, Mainland China, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan and Thailand all peaked back in 2015 and will continue to decline at an accelerating rate in the coming decades. By 2050, the proportion of elderly in their populations is expected to increase to 27% from just 7% in 1995.
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Climate change is threatening your health like never before, no matter which part of the world you live in, according to the fifth edition of
The Lancet Countdown.
This is an initiative to document the health effects of climate change, and enlists scientists of multiple disciplines from 35 academic institutions and UN agencies. The collaboration assesses governments’ actions on their commitments under the Paris Agreement, in which 197 countries have committed to limit global warming to well below 2º C, preferably to 1.5º C, by the 22nd century.
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December 21st, 2020, by Tim Radford
The Mediterranean way to chill: Paint it white and keep it cool.
There’s more than one way to chill out. White paint and watery windows could help. So could the deep blue sea.
Across the Pacific in Singapore, researchers have developed a “smart window” clever enough to block the incoming sunlight and regulate the building’s internal temperature. It’s pretty good at blocking the noise from the streets, too.
Austrian researchers calculate that a cubic metre of water from 700 metres below the ocean surface can deliver the same cooling power as 21 wind turbines, or a solarpowered-farm the size of 68 football fields.