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Ford cuts global water use 8.5% per vehicle from 2011 to 2012; total usage down 62% since 2000

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Since 2000, Ford has reduced the amount of water used around the world from 64 million cubic meters to 24 million cubic meters—a reduction of about 10.6 Ford voluntarily launched its Global Water Management Initiative in 2000, putting in place ways to manage water conservation, quality and reuse of storm and process water.

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NOAA: Global Combined Land and Ocean Surface Temperature Was Second Warmest for September

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below the 1979-2000 average, and the 13 th consecutive September with below-average Arctic sea ice extent. above the 1979-2000 average. Typhoon Ketsana became 2009’s second-deadliest tropical cyclone so far, claiming nearly 500 lives across the Philippines, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam. Arctic sea ice covered an average 2.1

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The Richer They Get, the More Meat They Eat

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The world’s production of meat and poultry reached about 100 million tonnes in 1970, 233 million tonnes in 2000, and 325 million tonnes in 2020. Half a century is surely plenty of time to discern a trend, and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization has the relevant data. That represents a tripling since 1970.

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Study finds unprecedented urbanization and urban expansion in East-Southeast Asia from 2000 to 2010

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The study reveals that between 2000 and 2010, the population of East-Southeast Asia grew by 231 million people; if this were the population of a single country, it would be the fifth most populous country in the world. —Professor Annemarie Schneider from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, lead author.

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Announcing a Benchmark to Improve AI Safety

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The latest smartphones are more powerful than the fastest supercomputers from the year 2000. And it worked: Computing power, and more impressively computing power per watt or per dollar, has grown exponentially in the past five decades. Measurement of performance, though, is not limited to chips. Protik Mukhopadhyay, Protecto.ai