Paintings by Jamie Hewlett, co-founder of Gorillaz, have gone on show at an Oxfam exhibition on climate change.

The exhibition includes nine watercolours following a visit he made to Cha Atra in Bangladesh. It includes this one of Zahid Hossain, 5, “looking up wondering when the rains will come.”

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Current
unemployment rates stand at nearly 10 percent, and the U.S. Bureau of Labor
Statistics expects this number to continue to rise. While this has been the
cause of serious worry among the labor force, there may also be a reason to
celebrate. A poor economy appears to add years to a persons life expectancy,
according to research from the University of Michigan.

Paintings by Jamie Hewlett, co-founder of Gorillaz, have gone on show at an Oxfam exhibition on climate change.

The exhibition includes nine watercolours following a visit he made to Cha Atra in Bangladesh. It includes this one of Zahid Hossain, 5, “looking up wondering when the rains will come.”

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The first government public warning on man-made climate change will be broadcast tonight on British television.

The public service advert is the first to warn officially climate change is happening and confirm it is man-made.

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India has suffered its weakest monsoon for nearly 40 years.

Rainfall is 23 per cent below average making it the worst since 1972.

Ishan Tankura, a photographer from Delhi, has made a film about the lateness of this year’s monsoon for Greenpeace.

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Communities are finally starting to see payoff from bans on public smoking. The bans, which prohibit smoking in restaurants, health facilities, and businesses, correspond with a decline in the rate of heart attacks.

Information comes from a recent study published in Circulation, a journal of the American Heart Association. The study is a compilation of nine previously published research articles on the topic. The study notes a decrease in the risk of AMI (acute myocardial infarction), another name for a heart attack.

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