Facts & Trends

Minimum percentage of Arctic warming that has been caused by commercial airline emissions: 10 ...

$6 trillion - Upper estimate of the cost to the U.S. of conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan ...

Toxic air pollution in the Indian capital of Delhi has given some 2.2 million children irreversible lung damage, according to a 2010 study from the Kolkata-based Chittaranjan National Cancer Institute that surfaced this month. The report has raised fresh concerns ...

Percentage of U.S. stock owned by the wealthiest 10 percent of Americans: 89 ...

About 25 percent of the world's population, or 1.6 billion people, do not have electricity in their homes ...

Nearly 10,000 desperate refugees were rescued from overcrowded boats in the Mediterranean this week, a record high, but another 400 are believed to have drowned when one of the boats sank, also a record.  Most of the migrants were from ...

For every deceased person who is buried, four are now cremated ...

Percentage of U.S. children in 1960 who lived in households headed by heterosexuals in their first marriage: 73 Who do today: 46 ...

Yearly odds of an adult being hit by lightning: 1 in 1 million ...

From 2000 to 2013, advertising revenue for America's newspapers fell $40 billion—from $63.5 billion to $23 billion, according to a new report by the Brookings Foundation. At the same time, Google's ad revenue has soared to $57.9 billion ...