By Mark Lobel, BBC News22 February 2012 A gas-fuelled fire, with flames as high as 5m, may burn for months in waters off the Niger Delta in south-east Nigeria, Chevron has told the BBC. Two workers died after January's explosion...
(UNDP) â Since 1990 the Human Development Index (HDI) has been an important measure of progressâa composite index of life expectancy, years of schooling and income. This yearâs Report presents HDI values for 187 countries. The global HDI is now...
By Bob Henson 16 January 2019 (Weather Underground) â Just two years after shrinking to its lowest extent ever measured, Antarctic sea ice may challenge that record a few weeks from now. This depletion comes just as scientists reported a...