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T-Mobiles LTE will cover 250 million people in 2014, everywhere in the US by 2015
2014-03-14 14:45:52| Extremetech
Just before the one-year anniversary of the launch of the Un-carrier, T-Mobile has announced the next round of network modernization upgrades. This upgrade cycle will bring LTE service to 250 million people by the end of the year, and 300 million by the summer of next year.
Storm puts 53 million people at risk in Midwest
2013-11-17 19:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A fast-moving storm system that produced at least one tornado in Illinois threatened some 53 million people across 10 Midwestern states on Sunday, U.S. weather officials said. "A confirmed large and extremely dangerous tornado" was spotted near Washington, Illinois, located about 145 miles southwest of Chicago, the National Weather Service said. Photos taken at the scene showed structures were reduced to rubble and houses ripped open in Washington, Illinois. "There is a lot of debris," Sara...
Indigenous people of Honduras granted one million hectares rainforest
2013-09-12 21:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: One-hundred and fifty years after a treaty with England granted the Miskito people rights over their land--a treaty which was never fully respected--the government of Honduras has officially handed over nearly a million hectares (970,000 hectares) of tropical forest along the Caribbean Coast to the indigenous people. The Miskito are found along the eastern coast of both Honduras and Nicaragua and number around 200,000. "This is an unprecedented and historic moment for our peoples," said Norvin...
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Air Pollution Kills Two Million People Each Year
2013-07-18 15:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: According to newly published research, more than 2 million people die around the world each year as a result of outdoor air pollution. The study, published in Environmental Research Letters, found that these deaths are caused by fine particulate matter released by human activities, primarily burning fossil fuels like coal and oil in electricity generation, industry and transportation. An additional 470,000 die prematurely each year as a result of ozone pollution. The study concluded that East...
Google Translate now serves 200 million people daily
2013-05-18 18:40:58| CNET News.com
The company breaks down language barriers a billion times a day, it reveals at Google I/O. On the to-do list: real-time conversation translation. [Read more]
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