- Indian consumers most confident in world in Q1 2016: Nielsen http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/indian-consumers-most-confident-in-world-in-q1-2016-nielsen/articleshow/52307006.cms 7 comments india
- Tesla's Gigafactory will change how the world consumes energy http://www.yaabot.com/11504/gigafactory-worlds-energy-mecca/ 3 comments technology
- Why Is India The Largest Consumer of Gold In the World http://www.theindiastreet.com/2007/10/top-10-reasons-why-indians-love-gold.html 6 comments reddit.com
- Hackers infect 500,000 consumer routers all over the world with malware https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/05/hackers-infect-500000-consumer-routers-all-over-the-world-with-malware/?amp=1 3 comments technology
- Delhi Is the Third Highest Consumer of Cannabis in the World, Finds Study https://www.news18.com/news/buzz/delhi-is-the-third-highest-consumer-of-cannabis-in-the-world-finds-new-study-2302987.html 204 comments india
- Impossible Foods sets its sights on Asia, which consumes nearly half the world's meat https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/15/impossible-foods-expansion-plans-in-asia-a-major-meat-consumer.html 79 comments worldnews
- India becomes world's 2nd largest LPG consumer after govt's Ujjawla push https://www.dnaindia.com/business/report-india-becomes-world-s-2nd-largest-lpg-consumer-after-govt-s-ujjawla-push-2716462 10 comments india
- Uncle Sam's treatment of Huawei is world-class hypocrisy – consumers will pay the price https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/11/comment_huawei_usa/ 3 comments technology
- How the sandwich consumed Britain | The world-beating British sandwich industry is worth £8bn a year. It transformed the way we eat lunch, then did the same for breakfast – and now it’s coming for dinner. https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/nov/24/how-the-sandwich-consumed-britain 5 comments indepthstories
- The world's fastest consumer drone can record 4K video at 85 miles per hour http://www.theverge.com/2016/7/20/12234888/teal-drone-fastest-camera-quad-matus-thiel-fellow 9 comments technology
- A gas puzzler: If Biden ran Big Oil, what would he do differently? What if the US nationalized its resources, as have countries accounting for 75 percent of world production? The US has a conflict of interest. It is, uniquely, the world’s largest oil and gas producer and the largest consumer. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/06/22/if-biden-ran-big-oil/ 78 comments energy
- R.I. on track to be first state to require 100% of its electricity come from renewable energy sources | ‘This is climate action,’ Kai Salem of the Green Energy Consumers Alliance says. ‘And not only is it climate action, it’s nation leading, it’s even world leading.’ https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/06/15/metro/ri-track-be-first-state-get-100-its-electricity-renewable-energy-sources/ 3 comments environment
- Rhode Island on track to be first US state to require 100% of its electricity come from renewable energy sources | ‘This is climate action,’ Kai Salem of the Green Energy Consumers Alliance says. ‘And not only is it climate action, it’s nation leading, it’s even world leading.’ https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/06/15/metro/ri-track-be-first-state-get-100-its-electricity-renewable-energy-sources/ 32 comments climate
- R.I. on track to be first state to require 100% of its electricity come from renewable energy sources | ‘This is climate action,’ Kai Salem of the Green Energy Consumers Alliance says. ‘And not only is it climate action, it’s nation leading, it’s even world leading.’ https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/06/15/metro/ri-track-be-first-state-get-100-its-electricity-renewable-energy-sources/ 4 comments energy
- Proliferation of new psychoactive substances being sold and consumed in Europe, drugs agency warns | World News https://news.sky.com/story/drug-production-in-eu-on-the-rise-with-one-new-psychoactive-substance-discovered-each-week-12633690 6 comments worldnews
- Netflix consumes 15% of the world’s global internet traffic. Following Netflix, miscellaneous video embeds on websites takes up 13.1% of all internet traffic, while YouTube takes up 11.4% and general web browsing takes up 7.8%. https://www.fastcompany.com/90246386/netflix-consumes-15-of-the-worlds-global-internet-traffic?partner=rss&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=rss+fastcompany&utm_content=rss 126 comments worldnews
- World's smallest transistor switches current with a single atom in solid state - Physicists have developed a single-atom transistor, which works at room temperature and consumes very little energy, smaller than those of conventional silicon technologies by a factor of 10,000. https://www.nanowerk.com/nanotechnology-news2/newsid=50895.php 1978 comments science
- Meet the father of India’s fight for internet freedom — Nikhil Pahwa was drawn into the battle to preserve net neutrality, a battle that would come to consume and define his life, because he “was afraid we were about to be disconnected from the rest of the world.” https://www.gqindia.com/content/net-neutrality-india-nikhil-pahwa/ 4 comments technology
- Researchers have discovered traces of what could be the world’s oldest wine at the bottom of terracotta jars in a cave in Sicily, showing that the fermented drink was being made and consumed in Italy more than 6,000 years ago. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/aug/30/traces-of-6000-year-old-wine-discovered-in-sicilian-cave 230 comments worldnews
- Mexico considers importing avocados as staple priced out of consumers' reach | Country that produces almost half the world’s avocados contemplates the unthinkable as dietary staple becomes too costly for ordinary Mexicans https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/aug/06/mexico-considers-importing-avocados-as-global-demand-drives-up-prices 413 comments worldnews
- India is poised to dislodge Japan to become the world’s second-largest steelmaker as mills ramp up production to record levels to feed growing demand for infrastructure, new homes and consumer goods. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-07/india-to-dislodge-japan-in-global-steel-ranking-as-furnaces-roar 5 comments economy
- New analysis, recently published in the Journal of Industrial Ecology, showed that consumers are responsible for more than 60 per cent of the globe's greenhouse gas emissions, and up to 80 per cent of the world's water use. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jiec.12371/abstract 113 comments science
- Chile joined Ecuador and Britain on Wednesday, becoming one of the few countries in the world providing consumers with warning labels about the excessive content of unhealthy ingredients in foods. http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2016/06/29/chile-adds-warning-labels-for-unhealthy-food-ingredients/ 4 comments worldnews
- Glyphosate and Atrazine: EPA posts, then retracts, reports on top herbicide chemicals: In contrast, the World Health Organization's view that glyphosate is a "likely" human carcinogen included studies that were publicly available and that took into account consumer products. https://www.rt.com/usa/342128-glyphosate-atrazine-epa-reports/ 6 comments politics
- World's heaviest man, attempting to lose weight, dies after developing energy drink habit. "His consumption...was the equivalent of a person with no health problems consuming 42 cans of Coke in three days" http://www.sfgate.com/world/article/6-energy-drinks-a-day-blamed-for-death-of-6801521.php 13 comments worldnews
- Earth ‘overshoot day’ – the day each year when our demands on the planet outstrip its ability to regenerate – comes six days earlier than 2014, with world’s population currently consuming the equivalent of 1.6 planets a year http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/aug/12/humans-have-already-used-up-2015s-supply-of-earths-resources-analysis 106 comments worldnews
- The dystopian lake filled by the world’s tech lust: Hidden in an unknown corner of Inner Mongolia is a toxic, nightmarish lake created by our thirst for smartphones, consumer gadgets and green tech. http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20150402-the-worst-place-on-earth 200 comments technology
- World Trade Organization Rules Against Popular U.S. Country-of-Origin Meat Labels on Which Consumers Rely http://www.citizen.org/pressroom/pressroomredirect.cfm?id=4293 15 comments worldnews
- Privacy is tech’s latest marketing strategy "... it seems that mainstream tech companies are starting to compete for consumers based on technical privacy upgrades in a way almost unimaginable in a world before Edward Snowden's revelations about National Security Agency spying." http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/09/26/privacy-is-techs-latest-marketing-strategy/?tid=rssfeed 18 comments technology
- Get ready: The Senate is about to hold a hearing on net neutrality "'Open Internet rules are the Bill of Rights for the online world,' said Patrick Leahy in a statement announcing the hearing. 'It is crucial that rules are put in place to protect consumers, online innovators and free speech.'" http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/09/09/get-ready-the-senate-is-about-to-hold-a-hearing-on-net-neutrality/?tid=rssfeed 119 comments technology
- Hong Kong, one of the world's major consumers of ivory, has decided to destroy 28 tons of stockpiled illegal ivory http://www.awf.org/news/awf-ceo-commends-hong-kongs-decision-destroy-its-ivory-stockpile 3 comments worldnews
- Fervently Anti-Gay Uganda Among World's Top Gay Porn Consumers Behind Fervently Anti-Gay Pakistan http://www.advocate.com/politics/2014/01/16/uganda-among-worlds-top-gay-porn-consumers 599 comments worldnews
- Brazil Now Consumes 18% of the World’s Cocaine -- Brazil’s growing middle class has poured money into the trappings of wealth and recreation: flat-screen TVs, get-away vacations, and, now, lots of cocaine. http://qz.com/5058/brazil-now-consumes-18-of-worlds-cocaine/ 3 comments worldnews
- Kodak, the beginning of the end: "We developed the world's first consumer digital camera but we could not get approval to launch or sell it because of fear of the effects on the film market... a huge opportunity missed" http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-16627167 17 comments technology
- Denmark levies world's first fat tax - Denmark Saturday became the first country in the world to impose a fat tax after a week in which consumers hoarded butter, pizza, meat and milk to avoid the immediate effects. http://www.montrealgazette.com/health/denmark+imposes+world+first/5488375/story.html 28 comments worldnews
- Consumer waste from the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch" is turning a Hawaiian beach "into plastic". They found more plastic particles than sand, as they dug a hole on what has been described as "the world's dirtiest beach". http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/8639769.stm 46 comments worldnews
- The world economies biggest fear: Japan Succumbs to Deflation as Consumer Prices Fall Record 1.1% http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601068&sid=adflt6kir9gs 21 comments business
- The Air Force consumed 3.2 billion gallons of jet fuel in 2005, and the US military is the world's #1 CO2 emitter. To stop of global warming, we must get rid of our empire. http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/05/14/business/air.php 13 comments reddit.com
- U.S. tanks, planes and ships guzzle 340,000 barrels of oil a day, making the American military the single-largest purchaser and consumer of oil in the world. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyid=16281892 25 comments politics
- A hyper-advanced civilisation may command such unimaginable power that it can fashion worlds and consume whole suns. But it would still be bound by the laws of physics http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/node/1683 83 comments science