Study: Air pollution from fires hits world's poorest hardest
LONDON, Sept 21 — People in poorer countries are disproportionately suffering from air pollution spewed from the increasing scourge of fires in forests and fields around the...
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LONDON, Sept 21 — People in poorer countries are disproportionately suffering from air pollution spewed from the increasing scourge of fires in forests and fields around the...
While poverty and malnutrition are contributing factors, more research needs to be done to understand the root causes of the problem, according to Dana McCoy, lead author of the study
Alex Gladstein on how "monetary colonialism" has crippled the Third World
Article: Species Forerunners: Can Humanity Grow Up in Time? - 'The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained. 'Individual thought is mostly the result of collective thought and of interaction with other people. 'The language is entirely collective, and most of the thoughts in it are. Everybody does his own thing to those thoughts - he makes a contribution. 'But very few change them very much.' David Bohm, Physicist, On Dialogue
The new head of the World Bank said Tuesday that growing divides between rich and poor nations risked deepening poverty in the developing world, at a meeting of G20 finance ministers in India.Finance ministers from regional rivals and neighbours India and China met early Tuesday, without commenting to reporters.