Environment How many species are becoming extinct and why? There is growing data on the decline of species- which tends to have a cascading effect, as one species declines it creates pressure on other species who depend on that declining (or extinct) species for their survival. Forbes reports today on a new report that explicitly links biodiversity and economics,
commerce How many container ships are there in the world? Shipping containers are measured in "twenty-foot equivalent units", with the capacity of ships and warehouses given in TEU. As of ~2018 the largest containers ships can hold about 22,000 TEUs- and globally there are 5,222 ships as of April 2018 that can carry a total of
Environment The cost of leaky petroleum storage tanks One of the most common sources of groundwater contamination is leaking underground storage tanks (UST) like those used by convenience stores and gas stations. From the AEA blog: About 60 percent of all underground storage tanks (USTs) have experienced at least one leak and that remediation of the approximately 528,
The average annual per capita consumption of tea is 0.9kg globally The global average per capita consumption of tea will weigh in at 0.9 kg in 2021. Also, the average price per kilogram in the tea segment is expected to amount to US$35.06 in 2021. In the United States, consumer demand for tea has grown 18.7% year
The newest transatlantic cable carries 300TB/sec (2020) The latest transatlantic cable, Dunant, commissioned in 2020, contains 24 fibres and uses such tricks [like dense wave-division multiplexing] to carry 300 terabits per second—more than a million times what TAT-8 could cope with. It was paid for not by a phone company, but by Google, and the tech
