The oil industry was already struggling before the pandemic struck, with a weakened global economy decreasing demand for energy and producers flooding the market with cheap fuel. … As the pandemic gripped the U.S. economy and demand for fuel plummeted, Exxon announced in March that it would cut expenses byRead More →
But that has fallen steadily over time. From 2005 to 2014, the adult smoking rate declined from 20.9 percent to 16.8 percent. Public health officials are hoping to to drive that rate below 12 percent by 2020. 2) Cigarette smoking has fallen sharply among 18- to 24-year-olds. Why has theRead More →
The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) calculated that meat consumption declined for the first time in 2019, after decades of steep increases. … Better alternatives are also driving the decline in meat consumption. Is U.S. meat consumption decreasing? Then, meat consumption fell from 2007 to 2013, reaching a lowRead More →
The derivative of a function can be used to find out where its graph is rising (increasing) or falling (decreasing). If over an interval then the function is increasing over the interval. If over an interval then the function is decreasing over the interval. How do you find the increasingRead More →
A function that is completely increasing or completely decreasing on the given interval is called monotonic on the given interval. Usually, by looking at the graph of the function one can say whether the function is increasing or decreasing or neither. Is a function monotonic? A function’s monotonicity refers toRead More →
Saturation and consequential warming over the oceans has been demonstrated by the fact that the total water vapor content over the oceans has risen 0.41kg/sq meter every 10 years since 1988. Is water vapour rising? Water at the Earth’s surface evaporates into water vapor which rises up into the skyRead More →