The government has called for urgent international action to tackle climate change, after a new United
Nations report found «unequivocal» evidence for global warming.
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findings from the
report, including examples of SuperEntreprenuers, their geographic distribution and descriptions of what supports SuperEntreprenuerial
nations.
She is also a formidable voice for women's empowerment in Turkey, a
nation with one of the worst gender gaps in the workplace; the university
founded and chaired by Sabancı made headlines last year when it published a
report on the impact of domestic violence against white - collar working women in Turkey.
Outback Western Australia is the worst - performing property market in the
nation, according to a new
report by ratings agency Moody's, which also
found housing prices in Perth have fallen by 8 per cent since peaking in December 2014.
Younger people in both
nations are more likely to express favorable sentiment toward the other, the
report finds.
San Francisco ties with New York City and Washington, D.C., for the most expensive office space in the
nation, while San Jose, Irvine, and Fremont suffer from the highest labor costs, the
report found.
By 2016, the number of small firms operating in six or more
nations will more than double, the
report found.
Darryl Fears
reports: «As the Interior Department hosts public «listening sessions» through early March to explain its proposed five - year lease plan — which would open 95 percent of the
nation's outer continental shelf to potential drilling — a growing chorus of bipartisan opposition is
finding its voice.
That major media repeated the
report's
finding without noting its lack of credibility is symptomatic of a
Nation held hostage by power and money.
The Global Restrictions On Religion
report finds that only about one - third of the world's countries impose high restrictions on religion, but these 64
nations contain 70 percent of the world's 6.8 billion people (thanks to India and China).
The United
Nations Children's Fund has just released an alarming new
report that
found that there are currently more than 50 million children who have been driven from their homes...
The United
Nations Children's Fund released a
report today with the
findings that about 2 billion of the world's children are breathing toxic air regularly.
The Australian Beverages Council, representing the
nation's manufacturers and distributors of energy drinks, has today rejected the
findings of a recent
report that claims the mixing of alcohol with energy drinks leads to consumers drinking more.
The
report looked at figures from the United Kingdom, the only
nation we
found with available full cost - benefit data.
18 July 2014 Media Statement Beverages Council responds to ANU study into alcohol and energy drinks The Australian Beverages Council, representing the
nation's manufacturers and distributors of energy drinks, has today rejected the
findings of a recent
report that claims the mixing of alcohol with energy drinks leads to consumers drinking more.
Nation's Restaurant News
reports that, «Restaurants [&] food banks team up as need grows... Given the growing need for hunger relief, food banks, governments and restaurant operators are rethinking those [existing] systems and trying to
find a better way to redirect excess prepared food to hungry stomachs rather than landfills.»
A preseason
report from SPORTS ILLUSTRATED's outdoor correspondents on where and how to
find the
nation's top big game hunting trophies
New York and Connecticut hospitals rank among the worst in the
nation when it comes to safety ratings, while New Jersey fared much better, a new
report finds.
The conservative Tax Foundation, in its annual
report,
found that New York once again had the highest tax burden of any state in the
nation, with 12.7 percent of income going to support state and local taxes.
More than 50 percent of residents in Hamilton and Schuyler counties have a hunting or fishing license, and New York is third most popular state in the
nation for those two pastimes, a
report from state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli's office
found.
Aginighan, who is the
founding National Secretary, Ijaw National Congress, INC, expressed fears that the
reported move by the Minister of Transport would upset the atmosphere of peace in the region, stressing that the coming of the university brought joy to the Ijaw
nation and people of the region.
We fundamentally disagree with the Attorney General's
findings contained within the SIPU
report and are confident that the Troy Police Department's operations and procedures remain consistent with best practices adhered to by law enforcement agencies across the state and
nation.
The
report, by Ready
Nation / America's Edge
found that by 2020, there will be 350,000 available jobs in the state that New Yorkers won't have the skills needed to fill.
A Quinnipiac University poll released on Wednesday
found that most New York residents are not sold on the idea of Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, or New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio running for the
nation's highest office against President Donald Trump, the New York Daily News
reported.
Across the
nation, concern over contamination has risen in places like Seattle, where the city recently sued the agribusiness giant Monsanto over chemical pollution in the Duwamish River, and in Minnesota, where a state
report issued last week
found that up to 60 percent of groundwater samples from wells in the central part of the state had unsafe levels of nitrates.
They are charged with
finding a way to reduce New York's property taxes, which are the highest in the
nation, and will
report back shortly before the new legislative session begins.
«The
findings of this
report are a wake - up call for the
nation, as we are facing an already incredible financial burden that is going to rapidly worsen in the coming years,» said lead author Dr. Clifton Gooch.
Importantly, when modern climate models — the same as those used in the United
Nations» recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
reports — were run under Eocene conditions, many could not replicate these
findings.
The
findings support more widespread and early administration of the HPV vaccine before preadolescents and adolescents are exposed to the
nation's most common sexually transmitted infection and the most common cause of cervical cancer, they
report in the journal Pediatrics.
In a joint
reporting effort, ProPublica, PBS «Frontline» and NPR spent a year looking at the
nation's 2,300 coroner and medical examiner offices and
found a deeply dysfunctional system that quite literally buries its mistakes.
So is the National Science Board's authoritative
report, Science and Engineering Indicators 2012, as well as preceding volumes in the biennial series, wrong in its
finding that the
nation produces three times as many STEM degrees as there are STEM jobs?
A
report from the United
Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation
found that 6,000 individuals who were under the age of 18 in Ukraine, Belarus or Russia at the time of the disaster had by 2006 contracted thyroid cancer, «a substantial fraction» of whom likely contracted the disease due to radiation exposure.
Through the first three quarters of 2009, Indonesia failed to
report any flu cases at all, even though the Food and Agriculture Organization (a body of the United
Nations that monitors avian influenza in birds) has
found the infection to be deeply entrenched among fowl in 31 of the country's 33 provinces and endemic in Java, Sumatra, and Bali.
Finding the right mix of green energy technologies for generating electricity will be crucial in reducing the global impact of pollution for the next generation, according to a United
Nations report co-written by a Yale professor.
IPCC, an international organization
founded in 1988 by the United
Nations, is best known for its lengthy, periodic
reports assessing climate science and policy options for curbing global warming.
A progress
report by the United
Nations Environment Programme and the CBD
finds that coral reefs are particularly at risk; 55 per cent are threatened by overfishing and other pressures.
In addition, developed
nations are making mistakes when
reporting emissions of the gases, called hydrofluorocarbons, or HFCs, to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the study
finds.
When Lunt and his colleagues examined individual HFC emissions
reported by rich
nations to the United Nations, they found inaccu
nations to the United
Nations, they found inaccu
Nations, they
found inaccuracies.
A new
report from Thomson Reuters adds a fifth country, South Korea, and a new acronym, BRICK countries,
finding «clear evidence of a growing wedge of excellent research» occurring in all these
nations.
On Wednesday of next week, environment ministers from around the world meeting at the United
Nations will receive the preliminary version of the full
report and begin to discuss how to implement some of its
findings, said a spokesperson for the United
Nations Environment Programme, which sponsored the
report along with the World Meteorological Organization.
The world's
nations have expanded access to water and sanitation while creating more protected areas than ever before, yet countries have failed to reverse degradation of air quality and decline in fisheries, the
report finds.
West African
nations, for instance, historically appear to have
reported to FAO just 40 % of the catches made by local vessels in near - shore waters,
found UBC's Dyhia Belhabib.
The
report, «How Medicaid Expansions and Future Community Health Center Funding Will Shape Capacity to Meet the
Nation's Primary Care Needs: A 2014 Update,» can be
found at: go.gwu.edu/ggrchnbrief3 7
A new
report finds some progress in combatting pneumonia and diarrhea among young children in the
nations most severely impacted by the two diseases, but they remain responsible for hundreds of thousands of preventable deaths around the world.
The University of Pennsylvania Health System's patient care facilities include: The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and Penn Presbyterian Medical Center — which are recognized as one of the
nation's top «Honor Roll» hospitals by U.S. News & World
Report — Chester County Hospital; Lancaster General Health; Penn Medicine Princeton Health; Penn Wissahickon Hospice; and Pennsylvania Hospital — the
nation's first hospital,
founded in 1751.
A recent
report from the Rand Corporation
found that the most pressing limitations on the
nation's ability to confront the expected tidal wave of new Alzheimer cases include limited access to dementia specialists, PET imaging to diagnose patients, and infusion centers to deliver new treatments being developed by the pharmaceutical industry.
Earlier this year, a United
Nations climate change
report found that falling agricultural yields would hit impoverished people the hardest.
The scientific evidence for global warming and for humanity's role in the increase of greenhouse gasses becomes ever more unimpeachable, as the [United
Nations] IPCC [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 4th Assessment
Report]
findings are going to suggest; and such activity has a profound relevance, not just for the environment, but in ethical, economic, social and political terms as well.
More information about the most recent Annual
Report to the
Nation, including key
findings and associated charts, graphs, and social media tools, is available at the SEER site.
This sobering
finding is one of many in the
report, which looked at health disparities in the
nation's capital.