The European Union’s environmental agency said targets to curb pollution and climate change by 2050 would he missed without “profound changes” in technology, lifestyle and policy. The agency said poor air quality in Europe causes hundreds of thousands of early deaths a year.
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Fish flee existing habitats in search of better ones. Atlantic sea bass, for example, are migrating north to cooler waters—but the heat will chase them there.
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Portion of the global expenditure on social-welfare programs that is spent on Europeans: 1/2
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By 2021, the White House forecasts, the U.S. will be spending more on interest for the national debt than on the entire defense budget.
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A Chinese fishmonger found a 3-pound live bomb inside a squid he was cutting up. Police took the squid away and blew it up in a controlled explosion.
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Size of India’s annual deficit in female births, based on 2011 census data: 600,000
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The U.S. now has 2.3 billion square feet of self-storage space, constituting more than 7 square feet for every citizen.
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Number of U.S. prisoners exonerated last year: 125 Percentage of those exonerations in which no crime had occurred: 44
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The pork industry is renaming various cuts of meat to give them “consumer-friendly” names. The National Pork Board has been given approval from the USDA to rename pork chops “porterhouse chops,” “ribeye chops,” and “New York chops,” depending on the cut, while pork butt—which is from the shoulder—will be labeled “Boston roast”.
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Average number of hours a U.S. child aged 8 to 18 spends using an electronic device or watching television each day: 7.6
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