According to the world bank, China accounts for about 30 percent of total global fertilizer consumption.

As more and more people speak the global languages of English, Chinese, Spanish, and Arabic, other languages are rapidly disappearing.

El nifio, a Spanish term for \the Christ child\, was named by south American fisherman who noticed that the global weather pattern.

If we are not careful, then, we could face a kind of global chess match against very determined, super intelligent machines whose objectives conflict with our own, with the real world as the chessboard.

It is difficult to figure out a global population of polar bears as much of the range has been poorly studied; however, biologists calculate that there are about 20, 000-25, 000 polar bears worldwide.

It is obvious that the way much coffee is grown affects many aspects many aspects of life, from the local environment to the global ecology.

It leads to air pollution and global warming.

Last year was the warmest year on record, with global temperature 0.

More recently, the Paris Agreement, stuck by nearly 200 countries, also aims to limit global warming.

On a more global level, the destruction of the rainforest for full-sun coffee fields also threatens human life.

Phytoplankton have been used to control global climate.

Stephanie Dutkiewicz, a scientist in MIT's center for global change science, built a climate model that projects changes to the oceans throughout the century.

Sunlight reflection may relieve global warming.

The baseline here is average global temperature before the start of the industrial age.

The cars that drove the American dream have helped to create a global ecological disaster.

The global population is expected to grow to 9.6 billion by 2050.

The global warming tread cannot be stopped.

The loss of glaciers there due to global warming represents an enormous threat to agriculture.

The loss of shade trees is already causing a slight change in the world's climate, and studies show that loss of oxygen-giving trees also leads to air pollution and global warming.

The problem of global warming will have been quite solved by 2020.

When these organisms die, they bury carbon in the deep ocean, an important process that helps to regulate the global climate.

While clean energy is increasingly used in our daily life, global warning will continue for some decades after CO2 emissions peak.

The report's writers state that America's failure to invest in infrastructure impacts not only the health of the real-estate market, but also our ability to remain globally competitive.

The fierce global competition.

But a new report by Deloitte, Global Human Capital Trends, based on a survey of more than 7,000 executives in over 130 countries, suggests that the fashion for teamwork has reached a new high.

Yet the cost we project for saving civilization would amount to less than $200 billion a year, 1/6 of current global military spending.

Yet I, too, have resisted the idea that food shortages could bring down not only individual governments but also our global civilization.

For many years I have studied global agricultural, population, environmental and economic trends and their interactions.

Environmental problems must be solved to ease the current global food shortage.

The Director General of the International Labour Organization Juan Somavia notes that some countries have taken measures to address the effects of the global crisis.

Mr.Somavia says the International Labour Organization is proposing a global jobs agreement to deal with unemployment.

In its latest update on global employment trends, the agency says projections of the number of unemployed people this year range from 210 million to nearly 240 million people.

The implication is a sharp decline in global trade, which has plunged partly because oilproducing nations can't afford to import as much as they used to.

The impact of cheap oil on global economic growth.

The global economy is likely to undergo another recession.

Sara Johnson acknowledges that the global economic benefit from a fall in oil prices today is likely lower than it was in the past.

Possible ways to stimulate the global economy.

One reason is that more countries are big oil producers now, so the nations suffering from the price drop account for a larger share of the global economy.

Oil importers account for a larger portion of the global economy.

Lower oil prices have always given a big boost to the global economy.

Its effects on the global economy go against existing economic laws.

It still has a chance to give rise to a boom in the global economy.

In the past, falling oil prices have given a boost to the world economy, but recent forecasts for global growth have been toned down, even as oil prices sink lower and lower.

And a number of oil-producing countries are trimming their gasoline subsidies and raising taxes, so the net savings for global consumers is not as big as the oil price plunge might suggest.

A recent report suggests that the global gamification market will grow from $1.65 billion in 2015 to $11.1 billion by 2020.

Global warming is a trend toward warmer conditions around the world.

Scientists are in general agreement that the warmer conditions we have been experiencing are at least in part the result of a human-induced global warming trend

Parents and students who have invested heavily in higher education worry about graduates' job prospects as technological advances and changes in domestic and global markets transform professions in ways that reduce wages and cut jobs.

Since then it has evolved into a global crisis.

Global warming is causing more than 300,000 deaths and about $125 billion in economic losses each year, according to a report by the Global Humanitarian Forum, an organization led by Annan, the former United Nations secretary general.

It found that human-influenced climate change was raising the global death rates from illnesses including malnutrition (营养不良)and heat-related health problems

a political scientist at the University of Colorado, Boulder, who studies disaster trends, said the Forum's report was a methodological embarrassment because there was no way to distinguish deaths or economic losses related to human-driven global warming amid the much larger losses resulting from the growth in populations and economic development in vulnerable (易受伤害的) regions.

Global temperatures affect the rate of economic development

Rates of death from illnesses have risen due to global warming.

How rich and poor regions can share responsibility in curbing global warming

How emissions of heat-trapping gases can be reduced on a global scale.

However, Soren Andreasen, a social scientist at Dalberg Global Development Partners who supervised the writing of the report, defended it, saying that it was clear that the numbers were rough estimates

What is the finding of the Global Humanitarian Forum?

Solutions to global fuel shortage.

air pollution costs the global economy more than $5 trillion annually in welfare costs, with the most serious damage occurring in the developing world.

As global surface temperatures increase, so does the likelihood of extreme weather.

Bentham believe the global trend of increasing height has important implications.

Bentham believe the global trend of increasing height has important implications.How tall we are now is strongly influenced by the environment we grew up in, he said.If we give children the best possible start in life now,they will be healthier and mor

But a new report by Deloitte, Global Human Capital Trends, based on a survey of more than 7,000 executives in over 130 countries, suggests that the fashion for teamwork has reached a new high.

But global warming has raised the possibility that domestic produce could be seriously affected by rare weather events more often.

James Bentham, a co-author of the research from Imperial College, London, says the global trend is likely to be due primarily to improvements in nutrition and healthcare.

The accord underlined Italy's global reputation as a good steward of art and culture.

The article cites the global giant Procter and Gamble as an example, saying a real innovative company should develop an innovation culture and use it as a primary tool for success.

The city was supposed to be a hub for global companies, with employees from all over the world.

The global business EFK was born.

The implication is a sharp decline in global trade, which has plunged partly because oil-producing nations can't afford to import as much as they used to.

We need very broad participation to fully address the global tragedy that results when countries fail to take into account the negative impact of their carbon emissions on the rest of the world.

Renewables account for only a small share of global primary energy consumption, which is still dominated by fossil fuels—30% each for coal and oil, 25% for natural gas.

It is a direct result of the global economic recession.

In order to maximize global welfare, every country's carbon pricing should reflect not only the purely domestic damage from emissions, but also the damage to foreign countries.

In addition, other factors are putting downward pressure on oil prices: change in the strategic behavior of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, the projected increase in Iranian exports, the scaling-down of global demand ( ' , especially from emerging markets), the long-term drop in petroleum consumption in the United States, and some displacement of oil by substitutes.

A number of factors are driving down the global oil prices not just for now but in the foreseeable future.

2 million barrels per day to the crude oil market, contributing to a global over-supply.

Thoughts turn first to some sort of global statistic, some indicator which would rate the wealth of nations in both economic and environmental terms and show a relationship between the two.

There is a view that modern humans are inevitably sowing the seeds of a global Grand Banks-style disaster.

The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, a vast four-year global study which reported its initial conclusions earlier this year, found reasons to believe that managing ecosystems sustainably—working with nature rather than against it—might be less profitable in the short term, but certainly brings long-term rewards.

If our economies are to flourish, if global poverty is to be eliminated and if the well-being of the world's people enhanced—not just in this generation but in succeeding generations—we must make sure we take care of the natural environment and resources on which our economic activity depends.

He deems it indispensable for combating global poverty.

Agriculture is a water-intensive business, accounting for nearly 70% of global fresh water consumption.

Today, energy storage is a $33 billion global industry that generates nearly 100 gigawatt-hours of electricity per year.

They are better able to cope with the global climate change.

The most climate-vulnerable countries in the world have contributed very little to creating the global disease from which they now suffer the most.

The goal of keeping global temperature rise well below 2 ℃ is commendable but the emissions-reduction pledges submitted by countries leading up to the Paris talks are very unlikely to deliver on this.

Scholars warn that Antarctica's political drift could blur the distinction between military and civilian activities long before the continent's treaties come up for renegotiation, especially in parts of Antarctica that are ideal for intercepting ( ' , 拦截) signals from satellites or retasking satellite systems, potentially enhancing global electronic intelligence operations.

Nations are also pressing ahead with space research and satellite projects to expand their global navigation abilities.

In other words, a few countries are benefiting enormously from the consumption of fossil fuels, while at the same time contributing disproportionately to the global burden of climate change.

For the first time, the world's nations agreed to keep global warming well below 2 ℃.

Building on a Soviet-era foothold, Russia is expanding its monitoring stations for Glonass, its version of the Global Positioning System ( ' , GPS).

Train students to think about global issues.

Our society depends on them being able to make critical decisions about their own medical treatment say, or what we must do about global energy needs and demands.

Nor is the global economy forgiving of an American workforce with increasingly weak literacy, math and science abilities.

Despite mournful polar bears and charts showing carbon emissions soaring, most people find it hard to believe that global warming will affect them personally.

Despite clear signs of global warming it is not easy for most people to believe climate change will affect their own lives.

American higher education has lost its global competitiveness.

The 2010 Global Hunger Index report was released today by the International Food Policy Research Institute ( ' , IFPRI).

A global campaign has been launched to create a network of ocean sanctuaries to protect the seas in the region and Greenpeace is calling for an immediate halt to fishing in areas being considered for sanctuary status.

A global campaign has been launched to turn a huge tract of Antarctic seas into ocean sanctuaries, protecting wildlife and banning not just krill fishing, but all fishing.

American universities, despite their global reputation for excellence in teaching, have only begun to demonstrate what they can produce in real-world learning.

And for this to happen, we may need action on a global scale.

And we also need to plan ahead so that we're in a position to deal with the likely levels of climate change which are already inevitable and even more so too for the levels that are likely if we don't get those global agreements.

As such, they are key species for understanding and predicting impacts of global change on Antarctic and sub-Antarctic marine ecosystems.

Building on a Soviet-era foothold, Russia is expanding its monitoring stations for Glonass, its version of the Global Positioning System GPS.

Co-author Céline Le Bohec, from the University of Strasbourg in France, warned: \If there're no actions aimed at haling or controlling global warming, and the pace of the current human- induced changes such as climate change and overfishing stays the same

Farmers going grass-fed are not affected by the ever-changing milk prices of the global market.

From a political perspective, we need to understand the terms on which major countries like China and the USA might sign up to a global agreement because at the moment we don't have that consensus.

In addition, other factors are putting downward pressure on oil prices: change in the strategic behavior of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, the projected increase in Iranian exports, the scaling-down of global demand especially from eme

Originally from South America, the snails were accidentally introduced into the Ebro Delta by Global Aquatic Technologies, a company that raised the snails for fresh-water aquariums, but failed to prevent their escape.

simultaneously, technological advancement and global economy has reduced demand for well- paying blue collar jobs here in the United States.

since 2013, global scientific bodies have begun to back policies that support increased public access to research.

Sommerkorn says a plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions blamed for global warming needs to come out of the Copenhagen Climate Change Summit in December.

The 2010 Global Hunger Index report was released today by the International Food Policy Research Institute.

The advent of new technologies has added about 4.2 million barrels per day to the crude oil market, contributing to a global over-supply.

The millennium Ecosystem Assessment, a vast four-year global study which reported its initial conclusions earlier this year, found reasons to believe that managing ecosystems sustainably—working with nature rather than against it—might be less profitable

The most climate-vulnerable countries in the world have contributed very little to creating the global disease from which they now suffer the most.

The show has been running for over ten years, and some of the actors are practically global super stars.

The study's report states that as global warming transforms the environment in the world's last great wilderness, 70 percent of king penguins could either disappear or be forced to find new breeding grounds.

The unpredictability of global demand and the lag-time it takes to add more cows to a herd to meet demand can result in events like the recent cheese surplus.

Today, energy storage is a $33 billion global industry that generates nearly 100 gigawatt-hours of electricity per year.

We can't switch off global warming just by being good in the future.

Japan was, and remains, the global leader in automotive-assembly productivity.

Yet this enormous resource is not contributing enough to today's global challenges, including climate change, security, sustainable development and health.

That should create more collaborative endeavors and help to develop projects aimed directly at solving global problems.

However, the numbers are still small: in 2010, about 1,600 of the 100,000 social-sciences papers published globally included one of these keywords.

Global challenges and social innovation ought to receive much more attention from scientists, especially the young ones.

France, which prides itself as the global innovator of fashion, has decided its fashion industry has lost an absolute right to define physical beauty for women.

His analysis should therefore end any self-contentedness among those who may believe that the global position of English is so stable that the young generation of the United Kingdom do not need additional language capabilities.

David Graddol concludes that monoglot English graduates face a bleak economic future as qualified multilingual youngsters from other countries are proving to have a competitive advantage over their British counterparts in global companies and organizations.

But even as the number of English speakers expands further there are signs that the global predominance of the language may fade within the foreseeable future.

Yes , there has been a budding economic recovery since the 2008 global crash , but in key indicators in areas such as health and education , major economies have continued to decline.

According to a study by Catalyst, between 2010 and 2015 the share of women on the boards of global corporations increased by 54 percent.

Even American newspapers, which inhabit the most troubled corner of the global industry, have not only survived but often returned to profit.

The efforts of America's highest-earning 1% have been one of the more dynamic elements of the global economy.

The most drastic, and thoroughly illegal, reaction has been the emergence of Sci-Hub, a kind of global photocopier for scientific papers, set up in 2012, which now claims to offer access to every paywalled article published since 2015.

The outbreak came to global notice in late April 2009, when Mexican authorities noted an unusually large number of hospitalizations and deaths among healthy adults.

The outbreak of swine flu that was first detected in Mexico was declared a global epidemic on June 11, 2009.

They are energetic participants in a global economy driven by the flow of work, money and ideas.

They found that the principal requirement for what is called global cascades 一 the widespread propagation of influence through networks 一 is the presence not of a few influentials but, rather, of a critical mass of easily influenced people.

What Washington does – or doesn't do – to promote alternative energy may mean less and less at a time of a global shift in thought.