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Wasted food is world's third-biggest carbon emitter after China and US: UN
2013-09-12 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: The food the world wastes accounts for more greenhouse gas emissions than any country except for China and the United States, according to a United Nations report. It says every year about a third of all food for human consumption, around 1.3 billion tonnes, is wasted, along with all the energy, water and chemicals needed to produce it and dispose of it. Almost 30 per cent of the world's farmland, and a volume of water equivalent to the annual discharge of Europe's River Volga, are in effect...
China Firm Plans To Erect World's Tallest Building in Seven Months
2013-07-30 18:24:11| ENR.com: Headline News
The world's next tallest building might be a modular tower erected in seven months, if the Chinese government allows it.
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China, India to drive world's growing energy use
2013-07-26 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Wall Street Journal: The world will use far more of every type of energy in coming decades, the U.S. Energy Department said Thursday in a report that predicts China and India will drive growing consumption. The department's statistical arm, the Energy Information Administration, estimated world-wide use of energymostly for transportation and electricitywill surge 56% by 2040 compared with 2010 levels. Half of that growth would come from China and India, the report says, outlining a scenario where global economic...
China, The World's Largest Auto Market, Says Passenger Car Sales Rose 12% In June
2013-07-08 00:10:01| Auto Dealers - Topix.net
Passenger car sales in China, the world's largest auto market, rose by 12.3% in June from a year earlier to 1.29 million vehicles, the government-published China Daily newspaper said on Saturday.
China opens world's largest building, three times size of Pentagon
2013-07-03 19:32:53| CNET News.com
If you don't care about authenticity, the New Century Global Center has everything you could possibly want, including an artificial sun. [Read more]
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