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Four Siemens 1200 kW electric motors power worlds largest truck; all-wheel drive
2014-11-13 13:55:39| Green Car Congress
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Worlds two greatest polluters now equals in U.S.-China climate deal
2014-11-13 02:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Globe and Mail: After a domestic drubbing at home, where disenchanted voters made clear they had heard enough of his clarion call for "hope and change," U.S. President Barack Obama scored a rare foreign-policy triumph in the sweeping deal with China to slash greenhouse gas emissions. The pact may prove historic. It signals the world's sole superpower regards China as a key partner in global leadership rather than just one among several great powers. It provides the platform for Mr. Obama to carve out a...
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The worlds top 10 busiest metros
2014-11-13 01:00:00| Railway Technology
Six of the worlds ten busiest metro systems are in Asia, four can be found in China alone while the busiest, the Tokyo Subway, is in Japan. Railway-technology.com profiles the top 10 busiest metros based on the latest annual ridership data.
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40 Percent Of The World's Cropland Is In Or Near Cities
2014-11-13 00:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: Urban agriculture is clearly taking off around the world - in backyards, on rooftops and on local farms. But just how much of the world's cropland can we really call urban? That's been a big mystery. Now, a study published in the journal Environmental Research Letters has an answer: Somewhere around 1.1 billion acres is being cultivated for food in or within about 12 miles (20 kilometers) of cities. Most of that land is on the periphery of cities, but 16.6 percent of these urban farms are in...
U.S. & China, world's biggest carbon polluters, announce new climate goals
2014-11-12 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: The United States and China announced new goals for reducing their global warming pollution in the coming decades, with the U.S. ramping up its rate of decarbonization in five to 10 years and China promising that its carbon emissions will peak in the next 15 years. The announcements, which came at a multinational summit in Beijing Tuesday, made clear for the first time the commitments that the two biggest sources of greenhouse gases will make as part of the urgent United Nations negotiations....
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