The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a U.N. body, released a report in late 2018 highlighting the importance of keeping global warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels. To date, average global temperatures have already…
Patna, India, which 24/Wall St. recently identified as the world’s most polluted city, has struggled with air quality recently. The Times of India wrote that more people in the city now are suffering from…
Recently the 24/7 Wall St. “Best America States to Live In” report ranked states on a number of quality of life issues and demographics. Mississippi came out at the bottom of the list as…
Even though worldwide wealth is increasing — it rose more than 3% to $80.68 trillion in 2017 — not all of the regions are experiencing the same level of affluence. North America has less…
The college admissions process has become more competitive than ever before. From 1990 to 2016, the number of 18 to 24-year-olds in the United States – the traditional college-age population – grew from from…
Television programming is never a sure thing. Every year, networks try out a new lineup of shows, eager to see which ones audiences tune in for and can be extended for another season and…
The official poverty rate — the share of Americans whose incomes fall below a certain threshold — is one of the most widely-cited measures of the health of the U.S. economy. Developed in 1963,…
Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich once described politics as a war for power. As the 2018 midterm election nears, in many parts of the country, the analogy is apt. The outcomes of…
It’s November, and more and more men are sporting facial hair. Men grow moustaches, and beards too, as part of the Movember movement, which was created to raise awareness and funding for men’s health…
There are nearly 1.5 million vacant homes in the United States, or 1.5% of all homes, according to a new report from real estate data company ATTOM Data Solutions. While this represents a slight…
Daylight Saving Time was introduced so during World War One as a way of conserving fuel needed for war industries and of extending the working day so people could use less energy. The resulting…
For decades, large and mid-sized cities across the United States have struggled with declining populations and vanishing jobs. This has occurred as major employers have moved overseas or have wholly ceased operations as the need…
Temperatures dipped below 10 degrees Fahrenheit across much of the northern United States this week. Still, average temperatures between Jan. 17 and 23, 2021 were consistently higher than historical norms for that period in…
As set by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, the poverty threshold in America is an income of $12,140 for an individual and $25,100 for a family of four. Though the U.S.…
Few acts are more selfless than people donating organs or donating blood on a regular basis. The people who performed these acts are 24/7 Wall St.’s latest additions to the list of American heroes.…
