In a bid to reduce the impact of pollution on public health, governments worldwide have begun to take serious measures to check the fouling of the air in congested cities. Some of these steps would rock many industries and affect livelihood of many people at certain point. The current global crackdown on pollution will not only improve public health, ...

  Mark Whitehouse How did the U.S. economy perform under President Barack Obama? Better than it could have, but still poorly enough to leave a lot of people unhappy. Obama’s economic track record has come under renewed scrutiny as the race to replace him heats up. Republican frontrunner Donald Trump has called the economy “already reasonably crippled.” Obama, in a ...

  As in any U.S. national election without an incumbent president, the candidates are painting a not very pretty picture: The country is “going to hell,” bluntly asserts the Republican front-runner Donald Trump. The Democratic challenger, Senator Bernie Sanders, isn’t much kinder and even Hillary Clinton is starting to focus more on challenges than successes. To many voters the message ...