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US Census Bureau: annual world population growth slowing, projected to soon slip below 1% for first time since 1950

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The Census Bureau’s International Data Base projects 2020-2021 to be the first year since 1950 where the annual population growth rate will drop below 1%. The US Census Bureau’s International Data Base, which estimates that 7.58 From 10,000 BCE through the early 1800s, the world population stayed below 1 billion globally.

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This Rice University Professor Developed Cancer-Detection Technology

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Richards-Kortum is a professor of bioengineering at Rice University , in Houston, and codirector of the Rice360 Institute for Global Health Technologies , which is developing affordable medical equipment for underresourced hospitals. Maria Oden , also a bioengineering professor, founded the Rice360 Institute for Global Health Technologies.

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Study finds economic losses due to health burdens caused by in-car PM2.5 exposure inversely proportional to per capita GDP

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Some of the world’s cities suffer disproportionate economic losses because of the health consequences of in-car air pollution, according to a new study by an international team led by researchers at the University of Surrey (UK). Surrey’s Global Centre for Clean Air Research (GCARE) set out to investigate whether the amount of PM 2.5

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