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These researchers counted the trees in China using lasers
According to the results, China has a staggering 142.6 billion trees, or around 100 trees per person. Of course, urban areas and the high Himalayas have far fewer trees.
Dollar Tree offloads Family Dollar chain for $1 billion, ending a decade-long effort to find a fit
Dollar Tree's decade-long effort to fold the Family Dollar chain into its business is ending, after the Virginia-based ...
Ground-penetrating radar reveals optimal tree density to combat desertification in China's fragile sandlands
A study using ground-penetrating radar (GPR) has identified the optimal planting density for Mongolia pine plantations in ...
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Chinese EV titan BYD eclipses Tesla with annual sales of more than $100 billion
BYD unveiled an ultra-fast charging system that it said was capable of adding 250 miles of range in just five minutes, ...
From the Allen house to the Waldorf school: What was destroyed — and spared — in the fires
The historic buildings and land that the January fires spared and destroyed. The Southern California properties come with ...
David Cronenberg Thinks ‘The Brutalist’ AI Backlash Was a Smear Campaign by Other Oscar Nominees: “A Harvey Weinstein Kind of Thing”
The Canadian filmmaker was speaking at a London Soundtrack Festival talk with career-long collaborator Howard Shore.
Foreign visitors have been driving Japan's economy. A stronger yen could reverse that trend
Foreign tourists have had an outzised impact on Japan’s economic growth. However, their influence could start to wane as the ...
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Chinese LiDAR maker rejects report backing U.S. claims it supplies China’s military
In the transcript of a recent earnings call, Hesai’s CEO David Li said the U.S. government “continued to falsely accuse us of associating with the Chinese military ... Sound Greenway Trust is hosting ...
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Australia moves to arm troops with anti-ship missiles as China threat looms
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Australia is scrambling to deploy new long-range missiles as the recent arrival of powerful Chinese ... park it under a tree and come out to fire it and move back again. They won ...
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‘Will America and China go to war?’ Three professors look to history and foreign policies for answers
On a more fundamental level, David spoke of the ideological and political barriers that divide the U.S. and China. Beyond economic differences, he said the biggest barrier to smooth relations was the ...
Times Higher Education16d
The evolution of authentic assessment
Practical advice on assessing students’ skills and application of learning in real-world contexts To embed the skills students will need to thrive beyond their studies, lecturers need to assess how ...