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Climate Change Missing Target

New figures show an increase in global emissions compared with previous years

The latest climate talks have heard that emissions this year and last have increased - they fell in the 3 years previously.
Development of electric vehicles and energy generation with renewable technologies have helped reduce emissions, but it鈥檚 not enough according to the latest analysis. The growth of conventional energy generation using fossil fuels has dwarfed reduction from using cleaner technologies.

Ammonia pollution is a serious issue for health globally. New satellite observations are able to pinpoint sources from factories to chicken farms worldwide.

Changes in laws in the Amazon designed to make the conservation of forests in private hands easier could have the opposite effect. In a strange statistical quirk, if a state is successful in its conservation efforts more private forestry could be made available for development.

And the maths of Democracy, can analytical systems developed to help understand stem cell growth or the behaviour of social insects be used to help understand the function and dysfunction of political systems?
Researchers suggest such analysis could even be used to predict a change in political direction, in the run up to elections for example.

From cradle to grave, CrowdScience examines the complex web of factors that are involved in how men and women age differently. It seems that, right from the word go, male embryos are already in the firing line because of their genetics. Marnie hears how women鈥檚 genetics are configured so that they have a backup copy of some of their genes, whereas men only have one copy. Not only does this makes less male embryos less resilient (and therefore more likely to miscarry), men are also at risk of a set of genetic diseases later in life like haemophilia.

In Russia, the gap is nearly 13 years (the highest in the world) and it鈥檚 thought that a culture of heavy drinking and smoking is why women outlive men by more than a decade.
...which got Marnie thinking - could men change their destiny and outlive women?

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