One child in seven inhales toxic air which takes toll on brain. About 300 million children live in areas so polluted it can cause serious physical damage to them, warns a new UN study. Children are more vulnerable because their lungs, brains and immune systems are still developing. The pollutants easily find passage through their respiratory tracts. As kids …

  Of all of the scary economic data that routinely streams out of Japan, this statistic should terrify you: $800 million. That’s the total value of venture capital deals completed in Japan in 2015, according to accounting firm Ernst & Young. Compare that to $72 billion in the U.S. and $49 billion in China. Even tiny Israel managed $2.6 billion …

  World leaders have started to generate some real optimism with their efforts to address global climate change. What’s troubling, though, is how far we remain from getting carbon emissions under control — and how much wishful thinking is still required to believe we can do so. The Paris agreement on climate change has garnered the national signatories needed to …