Assessing and Managing Pediatric Cardiac Rhythm Disturbances. Arrhythmia: Absence or disruption of cardiac electrical activity resulting in abnormality in the heart's normal rhythmic pattern. Bradycardia: A heart rate below the normal limit for age.
Throughout the world, about 900 million trees are cut down annually, as of 2014. That equates to about 2.47 million trees cut down every day. These trees are used to make everything from lumber and paper to deodorant and food additives. Continue Reading.
Deforestation is the permanent destruction of forests in order to make the land available for other uses. An estimated 18 million acres (7.3 million hectares) of forest, which is roughly the size of the country of Panama, are lost each year, according to the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Some other statistics: