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Worldwide Electronic Waste to Reach 65 Million Tons by 2017
2013-12-23 20:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: The volume of electronic waste generated worldwide is expected to climb by 33 percent by 2017 to 65 million tons, according to a study conducted by a partnership of United Nations organizations, industry, governments and scientists. So many computers, televisions, mobile phones and other devices are being tossed away annually that within four years the volume of e-waste would fill a 15,000-mile line of 40-ton trucks, the report said. The report, released by a group called StEP--Solving the E-Waste...
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Greenland's Snow Hides 100 Billion Tons of Water
2013-12-23 07:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LiveScience: Big surprises still hide beneath the frozen surface of snowy Greenland. Despite decades of poking and prodding by scientists, only now has the massive ice island revealed a hidden aquifer. In southeast Greenland, more than 100 billion tons of liquid water soaks a slushy snow layer buried anywhere from 15 to 160 feet (5 to 50 meters) below the surface. This snow aquifer covers more than 27,000 square miles (70,000 square kilometers) -- an area bigger than West Virginia -- researchers report today...
'Ham Jam' Truck Crash Dumps 20 Tons Of Ham Onto Atlanta Freeway
2013-12-20 19:34:22| Trucking - Topix.net
Ham! It's delicious. I can't get enough of the stuff. And like millions of honest, hard-working Americans, I depend on our nation's trucking industry to bring it to me in bulk every day.
Novelis investing $205M to expand global automotive aluminum capacity to 900,000 tons annually, up 3x from a year ago
2013-12-17 17:30:19| Green Car Congress
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Carmack claims the PS3 and Xbox 360 have tons of life left, but developers say otherwise whos right?
2013-12-13 17:25:47| Extremetech
John Carmack says the last-generation of consoles have plenty of headroom left, while some PS3 developers have said they've hit the utter limit on the console. Who's right?
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