In the midst of food shortages, natural «disasters» taking huge tolls in heavily populated areas, and trying to meet energy supply and demand (just to name a few examples), we are hardly winning right now. (dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com)
As the extraordinary hurricane and wildfire seasons in the United States underscored last year, more and worse extreme - weather events exact huge tolls in lost lives, disaster recovery costs, and economic losses. (technologyreview.com)
Her company, Embrace Innovations, makes low - cost baby incubators for use in the developing world, she explains in the post, and the emotional struggles of getting to know seriously ill infants, many of whom sadly didn't make it, and their families was taking a huge toll on her. (inc.com)