The average individual daily consumption of water is 159 gallons, while more than half the world's population lives on 25 gallons.  Fifty percent of the wetlands, 90% of the northwestern old-growth forests, and 99% of the tall-grass prairie have been destroyed in the last 200 years.
16 Jul 2016 00:21 GMT Turkey attempted coup. A coup attempt by an army faction in Turkey has been put down, Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said, after thousands of people heeded a call from President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and took to the streets.
What caused this monumental change in Turkish government and society? At the center of it all is Mustafa Kemal, better known as AtatÃ¼rk. Through his leadership in the 1920s and 1930s, modern secular Turkey was born, and Islam took a backseat in Turkish society. The Rise of AtatÃ¼rk The decision of the Ottoman Empire to enter the First World