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By David Fogarty and David Stanway SINGAPORE/BEIJING (Reuters) - China's carbon emissions could be nearly 20 percent higher than previously thought, a new analysis of official Chinese data showed on Sunday, suggesting the pace of global climate change could be even faster than currently predicted. China has already overtaken the United States as the world's top greenhouse gas polluter, producing about a quarter of mankind's carbon pollution that scientists say is heating up the planet and triggering more extreme weather. But pinning down an accurate total for China's carbon emissions has long been a challenge because of doubts about the quality of its official energy use data.
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Read More »The Men Leading the Water Revolution
When Greg Ryan and his son came up with the technology to pasteurize water, they didn't know they would be leading the most important and lucrative subsector of the water industry. Perhaps no one understands the value of water better than a farmer
Read More »1 in 10 cases of tuberculosis in China are drug-resistant
One in 10 cases of tuberculosis in China cannot be treated by the most commonly-used drugs
Read More »Apple’s Financial Report: What To Expect From Tomorrow’s Quarterly Results Reveal
Apple's share price has dropped significantly in the last couple of weeks. This was possibly due to one analyst downgrading his expectations for Apple based on the assumption that cell phone operators would grow tired of paying the large subsidy the iPhone carries. But it doesn't take into account the different markets outside the U.S.
Read More »This Week In Bots: The Making Robots Touchy-Feely Edition
Robots in movies may be evil more often than good, but they're becoming part of our lives. And their tech is evolving so that they "feel" more like we do. This happened recently, and we had to show it to you
Read More »Apple’s Chinese Democracy: Foxconn Gets The iTreatment
In a small but very significant way Apple is trying to change China. It's a step perhaps no one else could make, and it's rather complicated.
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Great strategic thinkers have a gift for seeing threats and opportunities before anyone else.
Read More »China to Flood Nature Reserve with Latest Yangtze Dam
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Read More »How This Gay Social Network Went Mainstream
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Read More »Made in USA (Again): Why Manufacturing Is Coming Home
Mismanaged supply chain decisions sent manufacturing overseas. But the industry has changed direction
Read More »Made in USA: 6 Companies That Came Home
Manufacturing in America is hardly on the way out. In fact, it's just beginning to come back. Over the last four decades, a combination of outsourcing and offshoring sent thousands—if not millions—of manufacturing jobs overseas
Read More »Report from Former U.S. Marine Hints at Whereabouts of Long-Lost Peking Man Fossils
Replica of one of the Peking Man fossils. Image: Yan Li, via Wikimedia Commons In the 1930s archaeologists working at the site of Zhoukoudian near Beijing recovered an incredible trove of partial skulls and other bones representing some 40 individuals that would eventually be assigned to the early human species Homo erectus . The bones, which recent estimates put at around 770,000 years old , constitute the largest collection of H
Read More »Joy: An Underrated Business Skill
I love smiling, laughing, and the color yellow. Yes, I'm a joyful person - and a CEO. Here's how you too can find joy and use it as a powerful business asset.
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