According to the United Nations Population Division, the number of people aged 65 and older, currently estimated at 857 million, is expected to nearly double over the next two and a half decades.

According to NASA, there is “unequivocal evidence that Earth is warming at an unprecedented rate”. Data from Copernicus shows that July 22, 2024, was the world’s hottest daily global average temperature since the institution’s records began in 1940.

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The U.S. economy added 147,000 jobs in June, once again beating expectations and defying those who were anticipating a weakening of the U.S. labor market.

Tesla deliveries declined 14 percent year-over-year in the second quarter of 2025, continuing a troubling trend for the U.S. EV market leader.

A record 331.9 million people visited national parks in the United States in 2024, according to the National Park Service. This is up 6.36 million from 2023 and surpasses the previous high of 331 million in 2016.

According to the Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2025, over half of under-35-year-olds in the United States now say that social media/video networks are their main source for accessing news, followed by TV and online news sites.

More than 7 million people are killed from tobacco each year, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Of these, 1.6 million people do not use tobacco directly themselves, but are exposed to it second-hand.

According to a survey of U.S. teens conducted by the Pew Research Center in the fall of 2024, 48 percent of Americans aged 13 to 17 now say that social media has a mostly negative effect on people of their age, up from just 32 percent two years earlier.

When parents were asked which things they wished had never been invented thinking about their child’s experience growing up, more than half of the surveyed parents said they wished for their kids that social media didn’t exist.

Teenage girls are more likely than boys to report negative impacts from social media on their sleep, self confidence, levels of productivity and mental health, according to a recent study by the Pew Research Center.

A study published last week by researchers from Harvard Medical School and Hunter College projects that the proposed House budget bill would increase the number of U.S. uninsured by 7.6 million due to #Medicaid cuts included in it.

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Cannabis is the world’s most consumed drug, according to data from the UNODC World Drug Report 2025, released Thursday. An estimated 244 million people reported having used it at least once in the 12 months prior to an UNODC survey.

On June 28, 1969, the first major uprising of #LGBTQ+ people against police violence broke out at the Stonewall Inn on Christopher Street in New York City. Since then, countless protests and parades have taken place to honor the events of that night.

A recent survey by Patriotic Millionaires UK shows that a majority of millionaires in G20 countries supports a 2-percent tax on wealth.

It will take 123 years to reach full gender parity globally, according to the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Gender Gap Report 2025.

As China’s economy continues to grow, so does its demand for energy. With rapid industrialization, urbanization and rising living standards, the country has seen a steady increase in energy consumption over the past decades.

While a growing number of countries are setting ambitious targets to reduce their production of greenhouse gases, new data shows that many are lagging behind in implementing different climate policies.

A report released today by the World Meteorological Organization shows that temperature warming in Asia has increased fast over the past decades. In the years between 1991 and 2024, the continent has been warming at a rate of 0.45 Celcius per decade.