Report. Ripple Effects: Population and Coastal Regions
(2003) Coastal regions, areas that are home to a large and growing proportion of the world's population, are undergoing environmental decline.
(2003) Coastal regions, areas that are home to a large and growing proportion of the world's population, are undergoing environmental decline.
(2003) Coastal regions, areas that are home to a large and growing proportion of the world's population, are undergoing environmental decline.
(2002) Overall child mortality declined significantly in the 1990s, but environmental hazards still kill at least 3 million children under age 5 every year.1 Such young children make up roughly 10 percent of the world's population, but comprise more than 40 percent of the population suffering from health problems related to the environment.2
(2006) Census taking seems a quiet affair to most people in the United States, where the head count runs relatively smoothly and is reliably decennial.
(2005) More African Americans are living with HIV or already dead from AIDS than any other single racial or ethnic group in the United States—a crisis one black AIDS activist calls "a state of emergency" for the African American community.
(2009) Malaria threatens close to one-half of the world's population, and more than 1 million children die each year of malaria-related complications.
(2003) Education is a key part of strategies to improve individuals' well-being and societies' economic and social development.
(2003) Education is a key part of strategies to improve individuals' well-being and societies' economic and social development.
(2003) Education is a key part of strategies to improve individuals' well-being and societies' economic and social development.