It could have been worse: Spanish Banks have repossessed huge amounts of land that had not yet been built on, and residential-mortgage standards are rather conservative.

情况本来可能更坏，好在西班牙银行业已经收回了大量尚未动工建房的土地，且还过住宅按揭的标准也颇为保守。

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Converting Indonesian forests and peatlands for various agricultural land USES has released huge amounts of greenhouse gases with little economic benefit, according to a new report.

据一项新的报告称，印尼把林地与泥炭地改造为各种农业用地的做法没有收到多大的经济利益，反而造成大量的温室气体排放。

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As the century broke over America, there was another really tough technical problem receiving huge amounts of attention from small-time inventors across the land: airplanes.

正值世纪交替之际，在美国，一个非常棘手的技术问题正饱受全国三流发明家的关注：飞机。

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Wind and solar power also require huge amounts of land and expansive transmission lines to deliver electricity from remote sites.

FORBES: Environmental Groups Strongly Endorse "None Of The Above" Energy Plans

It could have been worse: Spanish banks have repossessed huge amounts of land that had not yet been built on, and residential-mortgage standards are rather conservative.

ECONOMIST: When the roof fell in

The area given over to coffee quadrupled between 1970 and 1995, but the planting of qat increased more than tenfold, using up huge amounts of land and water.

ECONOMIST: Chewing through a Yemeni afternoon