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the ice sheet’s surface. That summer—a record-breaker—Greenland shed almost six hundred billion tons of ice, producing enough water to fill a pool the size of California to a depth of four feet.
Elizabeth Kolbert • Under a White Sky
Plastic greenhouses located in the southernmost part of Almería province are the world’s largest covered area of commercial cultivation of produce: about 40,000 hectares (think of a 20 km × 20 km square) and easily identifiable on satellite images—look for yourself on Google Earth. You can even take a ride on Google Street View, which offers an oth
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A QUICK HISTORY OF THE ’90S
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On January 9, 1959, the world’s first purpose-built container crane went into operation, loading one 40,000-pound box every three minutes. At that rate, the Alameda terminal could handle 400 tons per hour, more than 40 times the average productivity of a longshore gang using shipboard winches. Similar cranes were installed in Los Angeles and Honolu
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