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Once a Chinese state enterprise, the Qinghe Special Steel Corporation had been transferred to the private sector before its plant…
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In March 2001 the Petrobras 36 Oil Platform (P-36) was the world’s largest floating oil production platform, operating 130 km…
A vast area in the marshy lowlands of Las Marismas, around southwestern Spain’s Guadalquivir River, was designated as a wildlife…