But in a worldwide effort to eradicate it was launched. At that point there were around , cases a year. Vaccination programmes have slashed that number to just this year, as of 13 December. The WHO estimates that the success of the vaccine means that there are 16 million people walking who otherwise could not have, and 1. It's a bit complicated, because the International Food Policy Research Institute takes various metrics — undernourishment, child mortality, child stunting, and child wasting — and combines them to form one number, its Global Hunger Index.
But the trend is clear. And it matches the World Bank's simpler assessment, the percentage of the world population that is undernourished. In , nearly 1 in 5 people — In , it was That's still the better part of a billion people, worldwide, but the situation is vastly better than it was just a few years ago. Specifically, government contracts for new onshore and offshore wind farms are expected to provide energy at hugely lower prices than nuclear or gas power.
So going green is becoming a good move financially as well as ethically. Britain and lots of other countries, including France and the Netherlands have said that every car on the road by will have to be electric, to help reduce climate emissions.
But Volvo, for example, is already planning to make all new car models electric from Last year, it was announced that the reintroduction of beavers to Scotland had gone so well that beavers were once again to be described as "native" to the country. And projects there and in Devon have found that beavers do great things for water quality, for flooding, and for local biodiversity.
Which isn't the plane pictured. That's a This prompted a social media scuffle between tech billionaire Elon Musk and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg over the potential dangers of AI. Defiant Dakota Access Pipeline water protectors faced-off with various law enforcement agencies on the day the camp was slated to be raided. Many protesters and independent journalist, who were all threatened with multiple felony charges if they didn't leave were met with militarized police on the road abutting the camp.
The move was an effort to expand U. Paris climate agreement : The Trump administration delivered official notice in August that the United States would stop participating in the Paris Agreement on climate change. The Paris Agreement, which was negotiated by countries in , details the steps each country will take to respond to the threat of global climate change.
Record-setting hurricane season : The Atlantic hurricane season, which included 17 named storms and 10 hurricanes, may go down as the costliest hurricane season ever. A few weeks later, Hurricane Irma, which destroyed more than 95 percent of the buildings on the tiny Caribbean island of Barbuda before steamrolling the Florida Keys, became the most intense hurricane to make U. Wildfires across the globe : In the western United States, Canada and Alaska , wildfires scorched millions of acres in a devastating wildfire season only had worse wildfires.
Fires also raged across Chile, South Africa, Portugal, Australia, New Zealand and—somewhat ironically—Greenland, where peat and permafrost are drying out because of climate change.
Solar eclipse : On August 21, , a total solar eclipse crossed the United States from coast to coast, the first total solar eclipse to do so since The next total solar eclipse visible from the U. The U. The most expensive U. This is how much of the world is currently on fire. Popular Science. Depends on where you are. Vox Media. Darker and more dangerous: High Commissioner updates the Human Rights Council on human rights issues in 40 countries. But if you see something that doesn't look right, click here to contact us!
Subscribe for fascinating stories connecting the past to the present. There was a government shutdown, a super blue blood moon, historic midterm elections and a very American addition to the British royal family.
Take a look back at the eventful year of with a review of the most important events in politics, culture, science and the Malala Yousafzai Started College at Oxford Five years after she was shot in the head by the Taliban for attempting to go to school in her native Pakistan, Yousafzai began classes at the University of Oxford—at Lady Margaret Hall, the same college once attended by Benazir Bhutto, who became the first female prime minister of Pakistan.
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