What's Killing The World's Teenagers? Road Accidents, Suicide, Floods

The leading cause of death among teenagers in the U.S. is road accidents — killing nearly 5,000 American kids between the ages of 10 and 19 in 2013.

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Humans Risk Killing Off One-In-Five of All Plant Species

Twenty-one percent of the world’s plant species—essential to food and medicine supplies—are threatened with extinction, according to a report published Tu...

India Misses Millennium Development Goal 5

Under the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 5, the target for India was to reduce Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR) by three quarters between 1990 and 2015. Based on the UN In...

NASA Is Investing In Growable Habitats And Sleep Chambers

Through NASA’s Innovative Advanced Concepts program (NIAC), the agency invests in many seemingly impossible technologies. Known for taking out-of-the-box concepts tha...

Shell Oil Spill Prompts Renewed Calls For A Moratorium On Oil And Gas Development In The Gulf Of Mexico

A leak from an undersea pipeline network in the Gulf of Mexico released nearly 90,000 gallons of crude oil before being discovered and shut down, federal regulators said. Read More

The Air In Nearly Every Big City In The Developing World Is Unhealthy To Breathe

Four out of five city-dwellers worldwide live in towns with lousy air, raising the odds of premature death from lung or heart ailments, the World Health Organization (WHO) ...

Trashing The Ragpicker

Raja is a waste dealer in Seemapuri in Delhi, who employs around 15 people to segregate mixed waste into paper, plastic and bottles. His monthly income of around Rs 30,000 ...

Neeraj Ghaywan - Varun Grover To Donate National Award Winnings To Charity

Celebrities have always been known to associate themselves with social causes. After Akshay Kumar, Nana Patekar, Aamir Khan and many others pledging their support to victim...

DORTMUND | COLOGNE INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES WINNERS

Ecuadorian coming-of-age film "Alba" by Ana Cristina Barragán won the International Debut Feature Film Competition for Women Directors at this year's Dortmund|Cologn...