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Got Wood? These Are The World's Biggest Lumber Producers From home construction and renovations to furniture and shipping pallets, lumber is one of the world’s most widely used building materials. This graphic ranks the world’s biggest lumber producers by sawnwood output in 2024, using data from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization. The World’s Top 30 Lumber Producers The United States produced roughly 2.7 billion cubic feet of lumber in 2024, making it the world’s largest producer. RankCountryCubic Feet (2024)Global Share 1🇺🇸 U.S.2.7B17.0% 2🇨🇳 China2.1B13.7% 3🇷🇺 Russia1.3B8.4% 4🇨🇦 Canada1.2B7.9% 5🇮🇳 India847M5.4% 6🇩🇪 Germany820M5.2% 7🇸🇪 Sweden632M4.0% 8🇫🇮 Finland388M2.5% 9🇧🇷 Brazil344M2.2% 10🇦🇹 Austria343M2.2% 11🇹🇷 Türkiye333M2.1% 12🇯🇵 Japan281M1.8% 13🇫🇷 France271M1.7% 14🇨🇱 Chile249M1.6% 15🇲🇽...

President Donald Trump said that NATO is a “paper tiger” and he was considering pulling the US out of the Cold War-era alliance. This week, multiple NATO states declared that the US could not use their airspace for attacks on Iran.  “I was never swayed by NATO. I always knew they were a paper tiger, […]

25,000 Ground Robots In Battlefield Planned By Ukraine For Frontline Logistics Authored by Mrigakshi Dixit via Interesting Engineering, In a move toward fully autonomous warfare, Ukraine’s Defense Ministry plans to procure 25,000 unmanned ground vehicles by mid-2026. This initiative aims to replace human soldiers with robotic systems for all frontline logistics and double the 2025 deployment rate. Reportedly, Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov stated that the ultimate goal is to have 100 percent of frontline logistics handled by robotic systems. BIZON-L ground robot.DevDroid/YouTube The strategy is already yielding results. In March alone, Ukrainian forces logged...