- Every $1 increase in the US minimum wage there would be 518 fewer pre-natal deaths.
- Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 255,000 in July, and the unemployment rate was unchanged at 4.9 percent.
- Earth Overshoot Day happened in August 8th, the earliest ever.
- Central banks are spending $200 billion a month on economic stimulus measures, which is higher than in 2009.
- An estimated 63,000 gallons of Cold War waste water is expected to be released by Greenland ice melt.
- Gallup’s “Good Jobs Employment” measure hit a six year high of 47.1% in July.
- July 2016 was 1.27F above average making a record for 15 months in a row.
- It will cost $180M to relocate 600 people from an Alaskan village. Funding to address climate change has gone to 140 organizations so far.
- Driverless cars are estimated to save $211B and 32,675 lives when they reach a 50% adoption rate.
- Costa Rica ran on renewable energy for 113 days.
- Surface ocean plastic is estimated to weigh 268,000 tonnes, with more than twice as much on the ocean floor.