Paul Ehrlich’s 1968 book The Population Bomb (Random House, reprinted hardcover 2000) first predicted massive, worldwide hunger and starvation. It was considered alarmist. Yet today 5% of the world’s population consumes 24% of the world’s energy and an estimated 24,000 children die each day due to acute poverty. (Global Issues). […]

Smartphones have taken one more giant leap and now it will help in keeping track of crop conditions, illegal deforestation as well as poverty across the globe with the help of thousands of satellites orbiting Earth. Stanford University researchers said they have developed an efficient way to provide invaluable information […]