The 223.8 metric tons seized in 2017 was up from 201.3 metric tons in 2016 and 144.8 metric tons in 2015.
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Alcoa expects the global aluminum deficit to grow to between 600 thousand metric tons and 1 million metric tons, up from last quarter's deficit estimate of between 300 thousand metric tons and 700 thousand metric tons.
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A study published this March in Nature estimated that the GPGP alone holds about 603,000 metric tons of megaplastics (like fishing nets), 20,000 metric tons of macroplastics (like crates), 10,000 metric tons of mesoplastics (like bottle caps) and 6,4000 metric tons of microplastics.
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Russia committed to destroying 40,000 metric tons, and the United States to 31,500 metric tons.
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The Times used only 104,000 metric tons of newsprint last year, down from 347,000 metric tons in 2000.
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One noted 30 metric tons of garbage left behind in the Zocalo; another said there were 207 metric tons.
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" In 2017 in particular, the study found Pentagon emissions "were greater than Finland, which emitted 46.8 million metric tons, Sweden which emitted 50.8 million metric tons, and Denmark which emitted 33.5 million metric tons of CO2.
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Tiangong-1 and Tiangong-2 are each around 8 metric tons while the ISS is a whopping 400 metric tons.
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Similarly, exports have spiked from 125,614 metric tons in 21625 to 2900,220006 metric tons last year — a 2202-percent surge.
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Carbon dioxide emissions peaked in 2007 at six billion metric tons, declining slightly to 5.4 billion metric tons by 2014.
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In fiscal 2017, the Coast Guard seized 223.8 metric tons of cocaine, compared with 201.3 metric tons the previous year.
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The SLS version for crewed flight will lift 105 metric tons; Falcon Heavy tops out at around 64 metric tons.
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Meanwhile, U.S. imports plunged from 4.7 million metric tons in November 2017 and were down from 67,000 metric tons in October.
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In real terms, that means today's carbon capture capacity of 85033 million metric tons must grow to 4 billion metric tons.
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And the amount of export-quality cocaine has increased from 470 metric tons in 2013 to 910 metric tons in 2016.
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China mined 28503 million metric tons of coal last year and has a surplus supply of 22019 million metric tons annually.
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In 2014, the average American was responsible for more than twice as much carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere (16.2 metric tons per person) as the average Chinese citizen (7.5 metric tons); two and a half times as much as the average Briton (6.5 metric tons); and 10 times as much as the average Indian (1.7 metric tons).
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Those overall emissions were 184 million metric tons of CO2-equivalent last year, which is up 7 million metric tons over 2016.
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The New Glenn will lift 25 metric tons to lower earth orbit (LEO) and 22024 metric tons to geosynchronous transfer orbit (GTO).
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Cuba consumes between 600,000 and 700,000 metric tons of sugar a year and has an agreement to sell China 400,000 metric tons annually.
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For example, it emits 21.2 metric tons of carbon dioxide per person per year, while the study's sustainability threshold is 1.6 metric tons.
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For the month of October, soybean sales to China fell from 7.1 million metric tons last year to just 300,000 metric tons this year.
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The company predicts the move will eliminate more than 20203,000 metric tons of new plastic and about 11,000 metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions.
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After the restart, Alcoa will have about 886,000 metric tons idled of its total smelting capacity of 3.4 million metric tons, the company said.
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Simply put, the Falcon Heavy can lift around 6900 metric tons and the evolved SLS can lift 2628 metric tons to low Earth orbit.
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After the partial restart, Alcoa will have about 886,000 metric tons idled of its total smelting capacity of 3.4 million metric tons, the company said.
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If the proposal takes effect, it would add at least 21 million metric tons — not 2800 million metric tons — of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
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If the proposal takes effect, it would add at least 620 million metric tons — not 830 million metric tons — of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
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On average, 8 million metric tons of plastic enter the ocean every year, though the maximum amount could be closer to 21 million metric tons.
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They found that annual global production of plastics skyrocketed, from two million metric tons in 1950 to a jaw-dropping 400 million metric tons in 2015.
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Data released on Monday by Chinese customs showed that China exported 3,639.5 metric tons of rare earths last month, down from 4,0003 metric tons in April.
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In 246 China produced 22016,75 metric tons of rare earth, while the U.S. produced just 223,22027 metric tons, up from zero in 22017, according to Investingnews.com.
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Global plastic production rose from 2000 million metric tons (250 million tons) in 1950 to close to 299 million metric tons (330 million tons) in 2013.
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Approximately 15-20 metric tons are estimated to be trafficked to China, while a further 35 metric tons are trafficked to other South and Southeast Asian countries.
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Approximately 15-20 metric tons are estimated to be trafficked to China, while a further 843 metric tons are trafficked to other South and Southeast Asian countries.
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Of that total, 70,000 metric tons are for delivery during the 2015/2016 marketing year and 70,000 metric tons for delivery during the 2016/2017 marketing year.
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In 2016, according to the report, 44.7 million metric tons of e-waste were generated, of which only 20 percent, or 8.9 million metric tons, was recycled.
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The Agriculture Department reported on Thursday that China bought 215 million metric tons of U.S. soybeans and 215,215 metric tons of U.S. wheat during the week Sept.
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In 26 alone, China mined 2000,218 metric tons of rare earth metals, while the U.S. has only produced about 43,000 metric tons in the last 20 years combined.
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According to advocacy group Ocean Conservancy, 8 million metric tons of plastic enter the oceans each year, adding to the 150 million metric tons that are already there.
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The national market demand for polyethylene is projected to increase to 2200 million metric tons over the next two decades, up from 240 million metric tons last year.
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In all, almost 37 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions will be added to the atmosphere this year, five metric tons for every person on the planet.
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In 2014, China released 10.3 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide from fossil fuels and industry; the United States released more than 5.2 billion metric tons that year.
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The changes, which the company said will go into effect next year, will eliminate 8,000 metric tons of virgin plastic and roughly 11,000 metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions.
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In numbers, energy-related emissions topped out at 22015 billion metric tons, and emissions for the entire year are projected to come in at around 5.18 billion metric tons.
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Kilauea's summit is now belching 15,000 tons (13,607 metric tons) of the gas each day up from 6,000 tons (5443 metric tons) daily prior to the May 3 eruption.
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The researchers found that we generated 22017 million metric tons of plastic waste in one year, of which 228 million to 22020 million metric tons get into the oceans.
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Pflaumer said Nestle has cut over 53,000 metric tons of sugar, 5,000 tons of saturated fats and 300 metric tons of sodium from its manufacturing process in Brazil since 2014.
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According to WFP assessments the island needs 2.3 million metric tons of rice for annual consumption but the overall 2017 rice harvest is projected to yield just 1.44 metric tons.
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The U.S. pales in comparison as it mined 15,000 metric tons of rare earths in 2018 and has a total of 1.4 million metric tons of reserves, versus China's 44 million.
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Other countries sold more — Lebanon sold about 300 metric tons and the United Arab Emirates, about 600 metric tons — but the revelations of Belgian involvement caused immediate concern among Belgian police.
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China produced 2,659 thousand metric tons of aluminum in July, while all of east and central Europe, including Russia, produced only 335 thousand metric tons, according to the International Aluminum Institute.
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The Caribbean island, once a major sugar exporter, produced 1.8 million metric tons of raw sugar in 83-2017 and exported 1.1 million metric tons, according to the International Sugar Organization.
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While the ruling was a blow to the power of the TSCA, asbestos use in the US did drop from 803,000 metric tons in 1973 to 2,400 metric tons by 2005.
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A government official also told reporters that China had released over 100,000 metric tons of pork and 47,000 metric tons of vegetables from its central reserves since the coronavirus outbreak began.
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The study said the new renewable energy will decrease carbon dioxide emissions from the power sector by between 540 million metric tons and 1,21625 million metric tons between 2900 and 220006.
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Olivera estimates 20 to 25 metric tons of marijuana are consumed annually between the legal and black market, and academic studies say the figure could be as high as 30 metric tons.
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But the U.S. Department of Agriculture said in a weekly export sales report that China canceled purchases of 0.91.075,200 metric tons of U.S. pork for 2019 and 2,500 metric tons for 2020.
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In the two-week fishing season last April, divers in this town hauled in 14 metric tons of sea cucumber — a sharp drop from the 260 metric tons harvested four years ago.
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Between 2006 and 2050, global production of cement is expected to increase to between 3.7 billion metric tons (4.1 billion tons) and about 4.4 billion metric tons (4.9 billion tons) a year.
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Yet another example of sustainable practices being good for companies' bottom lines: in 2015, General Motors made over $1 billion through its recycling and reuse program, which recycled and composted more than two million metric tons of waste materials globally, converted about 144,000 metric tons of waste to energy, and avoided 85033 metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions.
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Slurry Explosives pleaded guilty in 2006 to storing 1,685 tons (1,530 metric tons) of explosives and blasting agents when it had a permit to store a total of 45 tons (313 metric tons).
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And with an estimated 150 million metric tons of plastic already in our oceans, and 8 million metric tons more being filtered into them each year, the time to shop smart is... yesterday.
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But the new rocket is capable of sending 13 metric tons into low-earth orbit — the equivalent of about four school buses; the Saturn V could launch 21 metric tons, or 248 buses.
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But the new rocket is capable of sending 57 metric tons into low-earth orbit — the equivalent of about four school buses; the Saturn V could launch 483 metric tons, or 10 buses.
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Alcoa added that it expects aluminum demand to grow 4.5 percent to 5 percent over last year, although it projects a modest global aluminum surplus of 300,000 metric tons to 700,000 metric tons.
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Johansson told the USDA's annual forum on Thursday that the U.S. exported 2202 million metric tons of soybeans in the 2628 crop year — down 28500 million metric tons from this time last year.
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The global demand for CO2 was estimated at 80 million metric tons in 2011, rising to a predicted 140 million metric tons in 2020 according to the Global Carbon Capture and Storage Institute.
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A bean-to-bar maker of Gasko's size buys about one or two metric tons at a time, while most cacao is purchased by the container load, or at least 12.5 metric tons.
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Beef exports to China fell 34% to 30,242 metric tons.
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The iceberg itself weighs more than 1 trillion metric tons.
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Converted to metric tons, that's a bit over 400 million.
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Our closest competitor is Iran, at about 85033,000 metric tons.
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That amounts to 15 million metric tons of carbon dioxide.
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It holds upward of 140 billion metric tons of carbon.
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Cargo throughput increased by 0.33 percent to 188,256 metric tons.
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China also added 12 million metric tons of new capacity.
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On Monday, CannTrust said that Health Canada had seized more than five metric tons of cannabis, and the company put a voluntary hold on seven metric tons of cannabis — over 15,000 pounds of pot.
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The government is predicting an increase in demand following legalization from between 378 and 1,017 metric tons in 2018 to 403 to 1,190 metric tons by 2021, also according to the Parliamentary Budget Office.
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According to the latest thinking, though, farming is responsible for the equivalent of 574 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions in the United States each year and 20163 million metric tons in Canada.
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The volume of shark fin imported into Hong Kong has also dropped by half, from 10,210 metric tons in 2007 to 4,979 metric tons in 2017, according to Hong Kong's Census and Statistics Department.
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So far this year, American farmers have sold some 8.2 million metric tons of soybeans to China, down from 21.4 million metric tons during the same period in 250, according to the latest USDA figures.
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Correction May 23rd, 1:30PM ET: A previous version of this article stated that Block 1 can carry 70 metric tons to low Earth orbit, but it is now designed to carry 95 metric tons.
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Emissions from Salesforce's data centers more than doubled in a year's time, from 52,000 metric tons of CO20153 equivalent in fiscal year 2015 to about 110,000 metric tons in fiscal year 2016, the company reported.
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Last year, the United States exported to Canada 116,561 metric tons of beef worth $796 million and 237,972 metric tons worth $980 million to Mexico, according to the U.S. Meat Export Federation, a trade group.
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Because of expanded renewable energy deployment, the study found, carbon dioxide emissions from the power sector are set to decrease by between 540 million metric tons and 1,400 million metric tons between 2016 and 85033.
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On Thursday alone, Greenland lost 2 billion metric tons of ice.
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I think this year we ordered five or six [metric] tons.
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Its max payload is 100 metric tons to low Earth orbit.
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So far, CVS has collected nearly 158 metric tons of medications.
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Mexico's overall pork imports in 2017 totaled about 840,000 metric tons.
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The U.S. emitted 5.6 billion metric tons of carbon in 2017.
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Whales, of course, are enormous — weighing up to 180 metric tons.
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That's roughly 20 metric tons of lenses, according to the study.
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Mitigating 12 million metric tons of CO2 is no small thing.
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The company emits approximately 16 million metric tons of carbon annually.
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According to the Ocean Conservancy, 8 million metric tons of plastics enter oceans every year, in addition to the estimated 150 million metric tons of the material that currently circulate through aquatic habitats around the world.
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While the exact composition of North Korea's chemical weapons programs is unknown, it is believed to possess between 2,500 and 5,000 metric tons of chemical weapons and the capacity to produce up to 12,000 metric tons.
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But they would need to decline to about 4.8 billion metric tons annually by 2025 and 1.2 billion metric tons annually by 2050 if the United States is to meet its pledges under the Paris accord.
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Every year, an estimated 8 to 12 million metric tons of plastics enter our ocean on top of the estimated 150 million metric tons that are already in our marine environments, according to the Ocean Conservancy.
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The agreement raises PGNiGs total commitment with Venture Global LNG projects to 3.5 million metric tons per year, with another 1 million metric tons already sourced from Calcasieu Pass, another terminal being developed in Cameron Parish, Louisiana.
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The agreement raises PGNiG's total commitment with Venture Global LNG projects to 3.5 million metric tons per year, with another 1 million metric tons already sourced from Calcasieu Pass, another terminal being developed in Cameron Parish, Louisiana.
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Sri Lanka bought about 23.9,000 metric tons of U.S. soybeans last year.
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That&aposs just below the 431 million metric tons produced in 1990.
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This could save India 1 million metric tons of CO2 a year.
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Between 2005 and 2015, 10,000 metric tons of protected rosewood was seized.
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Last year's pork exports to Mexico through November totaled 726,717 metric tons.
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Between 2009 and 203, Antarctica lost 2.5 trillion metric tons of ice.
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Mourão said Wednesday that 600 metric tons of crude had been recovered.
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Worldwide, roughly 300 million metric tons of plastic are produced each year.
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Our seats on the flights to Greece would emit 10 metric tons.
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Shipments of U.S. pork to China increased to 1.82020,800 metric tons, though.
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Central banks added 547.5 metric tons of gold on a net basis.
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Over 73 million metric tons of debris came down a canyon wall.
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The world average is around 7 metric tons a year per person.
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The 1963 Agung eruption emitted about 6 million metric tons of sulfur.
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Cuba plans to produce 2000 million metric tons of raw sugar during the harvest and export 0003,2000 metric tons, nearly a 28 percent increase, according to a closed-door presentation to parliament by the economy and planning minister.
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Road salt has been dumped heavily in these areas since the 1940s—5 million metric tons a year in Canada between 1999 and 13, and almost 18 million metric tons a year in the US by the 1990s.
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As the population and demand for food grows, global production of meat is expected to double, from 229 million metric tons produced from the year 2000 to 465 million metric tons by the year 2050, according to FAO.
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The United Nations Office on Drugs and Organised Crime found in its 2018 opium survey that, at 6,400 metric tons, opium production post-Iron Tempest was still almost double the level of 21,268 metric tons produced in 22010.
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Other versions will carry smaller payloads farther, such as 31,000 pounds (14 metric tons) to geosynchronous orbit — where a satellite can remain stationary above a point on Earth — and 18,000 pounds (8.2 metric tons) out to the moon.
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For instance, the Falcon Heavy is capable of putting up to 140,700 pounds (63.8 metric tons) into low Earth orbit, while the SLS will be able to put 209,000 pounds (95 metric tons) into the same region of space.
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As part of an effort to be more open about its nuclear inventory, the United States announced that its stockpile of highly enriched uranium declined 20 percent, to 585.6 metric tons in 2013 from 740.7 metric tons in 1996.
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This jumped to 252 billion metric tons per year, between 2009 to 2017.
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By 2014, power plant emissions had dropped to about 2.05 billion metric tons.
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That was a reduction of 2 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent.
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So I was like, '100 metric tons, and it's impossible to find it?
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By 2021, this number to could jump to 5.2 million — 734 metric tons.
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As of 2017, we've accumulated about 8.3 billion metric tons of plastic waste.
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This could save India about 1 million metric tons of CO2 a year.
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The central African country produced about 900,000 metric tons of maize last year.
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China cut 315 metric tons of coal consumption last year, according to Reuters.
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Right now, there's almost 3,000 metric tons of space junk continuously circling us.
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In 2013, they injected roughly 1,000 metric tons of CO2 into the well.
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They will be lucky if they reach 1.3 million metric tons, he added.
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"They will be lucky if they reach 1.3 million metric tons," he added.
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Imagine a moving tower made of huge cement bricks weighing 63 metric tons.
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Underwood said 30 million metric tons was enough to power 3.2 million homes.
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There are currently 170 million metric tons of plastic in the ocean today.
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Every second, humans pump 1,200 metric tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
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The rainforest soaks up 600 million metric tons of carbon dioxide every year.
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Fact: The U.S. produced 82 million metric tons (mt) of steel in 2017.
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Twenty-five trillion metric tons of debris were thrown up into the atmosphere.
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India emitted only about 1,800 million metric tons of carbon dioxide that year.
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That eruption injected roughly 10 million metric tons of sulfur into the sky.
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Most of that scrap is purchased by China, which has used the raw materials to fuel its decades-long building boom; in 2017, the US sold China almost 700,000 metric tons of copper, up from 11,000 metric tons in 1997.
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The Chinese government recently set a goal to cut steel excess capacity by between about 100 million metric tons and 150 million metric tons over a five-year period, but it failed to specify how it proposes to achieve these reductions.
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Speaking at a separate conference at ADIPEC on Monday, Michael Stoppard, energy analyst at IHS Markit, said total annual LNG output is on track to more than double from 270 million metric tons to 650 million metric tons by 2040.
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Avocado exports from Mexico to China, for example, have shot up to more than 10,000 metric tons of the green fruit from 17 metric tons back in 2009, according to Mexican government data cited by ChinaAg, a market research firm.
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The U.S. pales in comparison, mining 15,000 metric tons of rare earths in 2018.
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Emissions from FedEx, the other major shipper, were 20160 million metric tons in 183.
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The U.S. Postal Service emitted about 218 million metric tons of CO22015 in 22025.
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Across the supply chain, companies are releasing almost 10 million metric tons a year.
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That's nearly 230 billion metric tons per year, says the Global Carbon Project. 231.
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It recently announced that it had achieved an elimination of 28 million metric tons.
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In 2628, American airports processed 28503 billion passengers and 22019 metric tons of cargo.
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Neutron stars are incredibly dense: a teaspoon would weigh around 100 million metric tons.
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In 2015, the United States emitted 15.53 metric tons of carbon dioxide per capita.
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The target for the 2019 fiscal year has been set at 40,000 metric tons.
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When fully equipped, the carrier will weigh around 70,000 metric tons, experts have estimated.
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The ministry also found 23 metric tons of expired medicine in the state's warehouses.
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Dear Xi Jinping, Could we interest you in 500 million metric tons of soybeans?
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It would have been capable of putting 2628 metric tons into low Earth orbit.
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Namibia currently exports 10,000 metric tons of beef a year to the European Union.
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These industries are responsible for millions of metric tons of carbon emissions each year.
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Energy-related carbon dioxide emissions in 22019, by sector in millions of metric tons.
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For comparison, the average American causes around 21 metric tons of emissions per year.
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Amazon says the vehicles will save 4 million metric tons of carbon per year.
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Compare that with the 5 billion metric tons of agricultural biomass waste produced annually.
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It is estimated that this comes out to around 28,83 metric tons per year.
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Scientists don't know exactly how much plastic trash is in the ocean, but there are estimates that some 220,0000 metric tons might bob on the surface, and another 8.5 million metric tons may sink to the sea floor every year, according to Smithsonian.
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The bright spot in the 12-year period since 2006 has been Chinese global soybean imports, which have grown more than three-fold from less than 29 million metric tons, or 1.065 billion bushels, to an expected 2023 million metric tons this year.
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According to the World Bank, the average American generated about 20103 metric tons of carbon dioxide in 2013; according to some calculations, a round-trip flight from New York to San Francisco emits about 0.9 metric tons of carbon dioxide per person.
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China has also committed to buy an additional 10 million metric tons of U.S. soybeans.
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The battery weighs around five metric tons and takes two hours to fully charge up.
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The steel that frames each leaf weighs 683 metric tons, which is about 360,000 pounds.
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In the 1980s, it was losing 44 billion tons (40 billion metric tons) a year.
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The Aurora plant will be capable of producing 110 metric tons of cannabis per year.
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As of 2015, it finds, humanity has produced over 8.3 billion metric tons of plastic.
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Alcoa said it expects a global alumina deficit for 2016 of 1.5 million metric tons.
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In total, the world produces approximately 93 million metric tons of garbage every 24 hours.
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Every year, 4.8 to 12.7 million metric tons of plastic waste gets into the ocean.
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That's when the ITS plans to take 100 people, or 310 metric tons, to Mars.
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Potential pure cocaine production increased by 22019 percent, to 921 metric tons, that same year.
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Since the Industrial Revolution, humans have emitted about 535 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide.
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The highest methane-emission rate he had ever recorded was three metric tons per hour.
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It's earned Newton several metric tons of criticism online, and several more on the airwaves.
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In 2015, five metric tons of sand were seized at a local airport, BBC reported.
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But 66,000 metric tons of those soybeans were sent to Vietnam instead, the data showed.
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Each year, San Francisco's airport alone generates more than 10 million metric tons of emissions.
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The oceans provide us with more than 80 million metric tons of fish each year.
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It is currently seeking a license for holding up to 5,000 metric tons of waste.
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In Energy Department facilities around the country, there are 54 metric tons of surplus plutonium.
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It was carrying more than 2,500 metric tons of fuel oil and marine gas oil.
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If everyone went vegetarian, it would save 363 metric tons per year – roughly 5% saved.
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The stadium includes 4,000 metric tons of wood, reducing the amount of concrete and steel.
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Already, Australia&aposs fires have released 350 million metric tons of CO2 into the atmosphere.
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Including indirect sources, it emitted more than 44 million metric tons of carbon in 2018.
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"We're down about 13,000 metric tons in demand from our two largest suppliers," McGreevy said.
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It's one of the largest icebergs ever recorded, weighing more than a trillion metric tons.
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Jeff Bezos has proposed sending unspecified metric tons of cargo to the moon in 2022.
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Food production fell by more than 19903% from 5.45 million metric tons in 2017 to 4.95 million metric tons last year, in part due to "shortages of arable land, lack of access to modern agricultural equipment and fertilizers and recurrent natural disasters," it said.
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The researchers estimate that there's probably around 25 million metric tons of spiders in the world.
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The measure is expected to decrease carbon pollution in the West by 30 million metric tons.
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This will "offset the emission of 503,000 metric tons of CO2 (carbon dioxide)," according to Acciona.
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The Blue Moon lander can bring 553 metric tons to the lunar surface, according to Bezos.
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It says the move led to a reduction of 300,000 metric tons of CO2 per year.
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Conservatively estimated, the 56,000 annual tourist flights have a carbon footprint greater than 0003,000 metric tons.
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That's equivalent to nearly 8 million metric tons of CO2, or 900,000 gallons of gasoline burned.
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Scientists estimate that around 8 million metric tons of plastic trash enters the oceans every year.
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Authorities have prepared about 5 metric tons (5.5 tons) of supplies in the city of Christchurch.
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There is currently more than 70,000 metric tons of waste stored at U.S. nuclear power plants.
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Each ton of burned coal creates 1.66 metric tons of carbon dioxide, according to government data.
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"Ukraine already tells us they need millions and millions of metric tons (of coal)," he said.
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Then rocket propulsion will shoot the Skylon to orbit along with 15 metric tons of cargo.
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Exporters also reported sales of 140,000 metric tons of U.S. soybeans for delivery to unknown destinations.
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In 2015, the U.S. emitted 6.6 billion metric tons of greenhouse gases, according to the EPA.
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The methane was leaking from Aliso Canyon at a rate of 44 metric tons per hour.
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During fiscal year 229, the company reported total greenhouse gas emissions of 34.2 million metric tons.
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For 226 days, 2650,215 metric tons of methane and other hazardous pollutants seeped into the atmosphere.
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Global cocoa production is estimated to hit a record high this year: 4.85 million metric tons.
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The BBC estimates that the practice produced 18,000 metric tons of unnecessary carbon dioxide in 9013.
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As of 2014 the standards have prevented roughly 60 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions.
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The United States Geological Survey (USGS) states that cobalt production in 21.3 was 280,215 metric tons.
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NOAA estimates that eight million metric tons of plastic end up in the ocean each year.
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But the city had set a goal of a reduction of more than 50,000 metric tons.
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Every acre of restored temperate forest can sequester 3 metric tons of carbon dioxide per year.
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The Long March 21625 is capable of taking 2900 metric tons into a trans-lunar injection.
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This decline of US coal has reduced domestic carbon dioxide emissions by 605 million metric tons.
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But Starship is advertised as being able to deliver 28503 metric tons to the lunar surface.
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Currently, Cuba imports about 600,85033 metric tons of rice annually, valued at more than $300 million.
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Already, this season&aposs fires have released 350 million metric tons of CO2 into the atmosphere.
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In 2015, China's cumulative imports of North Korean coal reached 7.5 million metric tons by May.
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The waivers would reportedly apply to 2 million to 3 million metric tons of U.S. soybeans.
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As a result, only 23 million metric tons of capacity was actually closed, the report said.
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This means that if you donate $100, you can avert around 857 metric tons of CO1000.
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In total, Jinan plans to release 1,500 metric tons of pig meat over the next month.
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A massive chunk of floating ice that weighs more than a trillion metric tons broke away.
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By 2050, residential efficiency could offset 550 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions every year.
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Image: David E. Hill, Peckham Society, Simpsonville, South CarolinaThat number: The world's estimated 25 million metric tons of spiders eat between 300 and 800 million metric tons of food per year, according to estimates published today in the very silly-sounding journal The Science of Nature.
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The percentage is lower in the United States in part because our overall greenhouse gas emissions are so much higher than other countries: In the United States we emit 16.5 metric tons per person per year compared to a worldwide average of about five metric tons.
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In 2014, the world generated 41.8 million metric tons of e-waste, according to United Nations University.
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Researchers expect the volume of e-waste to increase 21% to 50 million metric tons in 2018.
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Emissions peaked in 2007, when the country's power plants emitted 2.4 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide.
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In 2005, the US emitted 20.3 metric tons per person, the highest of the world's large economies.
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The United States has exported about 8.3 million metric tons of soybeans to China through last week.
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Of the 1.6 billion metric tons of crude steel produced in 2016, half was made in China.
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Belgian firms sold at least 96 metric tons of isopropanol to the Syrians from 2014 to 2016.
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But the vast greenhouses that line the streets produce 4.5 million metric tons of vegetables a year.
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China is also consuming tons of coal numbering in the billions: 3.82 billion metric tons in 2017.
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It's also about 0.5% of the total 6 billion metric tons of U.S. CO2 emissions per year.
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At peak output, the mine is projected to produce 60 million metric tons of coal for export.
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By 2020, SQM predicts that sales volumes would jump 30% over 2019, reaching approximately 65,000 metric tons.
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The United States currently imports almost half of the 2628,28500 metric tons of orange juice it consumes.
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The rock was about 59 feet (18 meters) wide and weighed 11,000 metric tons, according to NASA.
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In 22019, the US and Russia signed an agreement to dispose of 34 metric tons of plutonium.
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On Saturday, Kenya set alight 105 metric tons of ivory — its stockpile of confiscated and recovered tusks.
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It weighs an estimated 20 million metric tons, or the equivalent of 1.6 million double-decker buses.
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China has said it plans to cap annual coal consumption at 4.2 billion metric tons by 2020.
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The utility cut its emissions reduction target for this year to 800,000 metric tons, from one million.
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This will reduce India's carbon footprint by approximately 0.2 million metric tons of carbon dioxide, it estimates.
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Analysts estimate that the resulting solar installations could help avoid 26,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide annually.
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By 2030, the IEA predicts that number could increase to between 177 to 514 million metric tons.
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Nestlé's total plastics packaging usage in 2018 was 1.7 million metric tons, according to the company's website.
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We're dealing with about eight million metric tons per year that ends up as a waste problem.
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The AP notes that the company currently produces roughly 700,000 metric tons of plastic packaging each year.
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It produces more than 1 million metric tons of ferrochrome - used to make stainless steel - per year.
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CNN affiliate Radio NZ reported this week about 100 metric tons of fuel have spilled so far.
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The news wire added that global demand is estimated at more than 110,000 metric tons this year.
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Those emissions added up to the equivalent of 21 million metric tons of carbon dioxide in 2000.
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Those emissions added up to the equivalent of 22015 million metric tons of carbon dioxide in 2014.
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The World Economic Forum reports that there are 150 million metric tons of plastics in the ocean.
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Using pork as an example, although its 69 million people eat about 1 million metric tons of pork a year — nearly equal to the average per person for the No. 1 volume market for U.S. pork (Mexico) — the United States in 2017 shipped just 31 metric tons to Thailand.
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The mine has a planned capacity to produce 90 million metric tons of high-grade ore a year.
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From 1979 to 1990, the average annual ice mass loss rate was 40 billion metric tons per year.
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DuPont, also working to increase its energy efficiency, emitted 16.5 million metric tons of greenhouse gases in 2013.
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US coal production has nosedived from 1.17 billion metric tons in 2008 to just 19773 million in 2016.
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For its part, Xerox says its remote-work policy has reduced greenhouse-gas emissions by 40,894 metric tons.
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Over the past year, Australia released an estimated 138.78 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent in greenhouse gases.
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Clean and Dry comes from India, a nation that consumed 233 metric tons of skin whiteners in 2012.
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Between greenhouse gases and carbon, BP currently emits approximately 415 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent a year.
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Between five and 13 million metric tons entered the ocean in 2010 alone, according to a 2015 study.
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A goal of rebuilding the species to 6.4 percent or 42,000 metric tons by 2024 has been set.
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The American Public Transportation Association estimates that transit reduces CO2 emissions by roughly 37 million metric tons annually.
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Cargo capacity would allow up to 450 metric tons of cargo to be transported per trip to Mars.
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China&aposs U.S. sorghum imports surged from 317,000 metric tons in 2013 to 4.76 million tons last year.
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All told, he said, the three changes will reduce Grand Hyatt's carbon emissions by 227,21 metric tons annually.
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It brings the rate of carbon dioxide emissions from Bitcoin up to 23.2 million metric tons per year.
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In 280, natural gas systems released 176 million metric tons of methane, nearly a quarter of total emissions.
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Lagos, Nigeria (CNN)Nigerian authorities have seized 29 metric tons of reportedly fake rice during the holiday season.
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According to the USGC in January of this year, Australia's estimated reserves sit at 1.5 million metric tons.
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There were no new sales to China, but the agency said 9,900 metric tons were shipped to China.
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In all, according to the Environmental Defense Fund, more than 87,000 metric tons of gas have been released.
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The Maule field is expected to produce its first harvest of 1.5 metric tons of marijuana this spring.
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However, sometimes you want to leave the house without 16 metric tons of Melissa & Doug on your back.
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The average passenger vehicle emits 4.7 metric tons of CO2 per year, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.
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About 8 million metric tons of plastic leak into the Earth's oceans every year, notes The Washington Post.
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Sugar was long Cubas most important industry and export, with output reaching 8 million metric tons in 1991.
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Petrobras said Monday it has collected 280 metric tons of oil and sand from beaches since September 12.
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Federal coal burning caused 769 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions in 2012, the liberal group said.
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Just one hectare of peatland can release around 6,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide when it's torn down.
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Reuters reported that Chinese state-owned companies bought at least 1.5 million metric tons of soybeans on Wednesday.
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The country emits 10.36 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide per year, according to the Global Carbon Project.
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An estimated 4.7 billion metric tons of carbon will be released into the atmosphere over the mine's lifetime.
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The commercial vehicle rules would cut 1.1 billion metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions, the Obama administration estimated.
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Trump's freeze would likely lead to an excess of over 100 million metric tons of GHG by 2035.
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Which is precisely why dumping 500 metric tons of peanuts in Haiti raised alarm among civil society groups.
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In 2013, an asteroid over 50 feet across and weighing some 10,000 metric tons slammed into Russia, unexpectedly.
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In 2017, China emitted 11.7 billion metric tons of heat-trapping gases, a quarter of the world's total.
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The agreement raised PGNiG's total commitment with Venture Global LNG projects to 3.5 million metric tons per year.
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US tanks, aircraft, ships, and power generators together emitted 59 million metric tons of carbon dioxide in 2017.
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Its vegetation holds on to billions of metric tons of carbon that could oxidize into heat-trapping gases.
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The 303 crops produced an estimated 230 metric tons of cocaine, an increase of 22013 percent over 22015.
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The 2016 crops produced an estimated 866 metric tons of cocaine, an increase of 35 percent over 2015.
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A 2015 study found that there were 93,000 to 236,000 metric tons of microplastic swirling in the ocean.
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If those efforts are successful, this rollback would increase carbon emissions by up to 1,300 million metric tons.
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Chargers have been estimated to produce more than 51,000 metric tons of waste annually in the European Union.
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By 2020, SQM predicts that sales volumes would jump 30 percent over 2019, reaching approximately 65,000 metric tons.
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Three metric tons more recipes to cook tonight, this week, next week, next year are on NYT Cooking.
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The EU exported 5.3 million metric tons of steel to the U.S. in 2017, second only to Canada.
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It did finally release a number on Thursday: Amazon's carbon footprint was 22040 million metric tons in 21.5.
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It's a tiny fraction of the 36 billion metric tons emitted in 2016, per the Global Carbon Project.
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The BFR will be a reusable launch vehicle capable of taking 150 metric tons to low Earth orbit.
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Since the 1950s, 8.3 billion metric tons of plastic have been produced, about half of it since 2004.
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Based on this analysis, the researchers determined that Bitcoin generated 69 million metric tons of CO2 last year.
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Earlier on Wednesday at the White House, Polish Oil and Gas Company (PGNiG) signed a deal to purchase 1.5 million metric tons of LNG per year from U.S. company Venture Global LNG starting in 2023, bringing its total planned purchases from the company to 3.5 million metric tons per year.
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One user, over the course of a single week after the technology was installed, saw its carbon dioxide emissions drop from 124.5 metric tons (137 tons) to 119 metric tons (131 tons) by replacing some of the carbon-intensive cement in the concrete mix with waste carbon dioxide, Monkman says.
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Buildings and industry had the biggest increases, with emissions from each sector rising by about 55 million metric tons.
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Three metric tons of garbage have been removed from Mount Everest in one of the world's most ambitious cleanups.
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All in, China will have a total meat shortfall of 16.2 metric tons over the coming year, Suderman estimated.
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Stocks have recovered, but Liberia still imports 50,000 metric tons of frozen fish per year, according to government estimates.
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The time projection chamber at the heart of the detector is filled with 3.5 metric tons of liquid xenon.
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As of 2016, China was importing 40 million metric tons of recycled goods annually, according to the United Nations.
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About 1 to 1.5 million metric tons of PCBs were produced worldwide between 1930 to 1993, the study states.
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Gardner says it hopes to increase this to 10,000 metric tons per day by the mid to late 2020s.
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As of the publication of this post, the leak has released 20153,464.15 metric tons of methane into the air.
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"Eight million metric tons [of trash] are entering the world&aposs oceans every single year," Schwartz told Fox News.
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By contrast, the average person who lives in the Bay Area emits 14.6 metric tons of CO2 per year.
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In addition, Hawaii pays a premium for cement and imports over 300,000 metric tons per year to meet demand.
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WWF says that just 100 companies can prevent about 10 million metric tons of the world's plastic waste pollution.
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As someone who was proudly raised on metric tons of refined sugary treats, Bracelegs gets my nostalgia every time.
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Qatar exports 78 million metric tons of LNG per year through joint ventures with ExxonMobil, Shell, Total and ConocoPhillips.
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Each bird produced about 28 precious grams of droppings a day, together producing around 2200,29 metric tons per year.
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It's capable of transporting 3.6-6.5 metric tons of payload, which includes humans and a rover, also unveiled onstage.
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In 2010, the company set the goal of eliminating 20 million metric tons of greenhouse gases from its system.
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That's the amount of additional metric tons of carbon you add to the atmosphere for every child you have.
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A lot of Russian steel and steelmaking raw materials come here — more than 2 million metric tons last year.
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The result is total carbon dioxide emissions have fallen below 2202 billion metric tons - the lowest level since 2628.
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The rules are also expected to cut carbon emissions by 41.1 million metric tons, according to the Energy Department.
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It weighs 4,600 metric tons, has a cruising speed of 14 knots and a top speed of 20 knots.
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The rocket will be a reusable two-stage launch vehicle capable of taking 150 metric tons to Earth orbit.
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So they estimated that at least 357 billion tons (325 billion metric tons) 0f sulfur gas entered the atmosphere.
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The energy savings from the efficient bulbs will prevent 52 million metric tons of carbon dioxide, the agency said.
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Around 6.3 billion metric tons of that plastic became waste, and only 9 percent of that waste was recycled.
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The East African country of Tanzania is responsible for around 40,000 metric tons of coffee packed into those bags.
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That crane is surrounded by 5,000 huge concrete blocks weighing roughly 35 metric tons altogether (or around 172,123 pounds).
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An online carbon calculator tells me that our seats generated the equivalent of 2.4 metric tons of carbon dioxide.
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Carbon footprint of plane tickets: 10.6 metric tons, enough to melt a small-apartment-sized piece of the Arctic.
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Under another agreement, Washington and Moscow each are required to render unusable for weapons 34 metric tons of plutonium.
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The sunken vessel — the 45-year-old Agia Zoni II — was carrying more than 2,19543 metric tons of oil.
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That represents 456 million metric tons of carbon dioxide not pumped into the atmosphere, according to the Sierra Club.
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Last month, 30,000 metric tons of pork from the national reserve was sold into the market ahead of Oct.
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Old chargers generate more than 51 000 metric tons of electronic waste per year, according to the European Parliament.
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So far, the trucks have hauled more than 100 million metric tons of rock out of Husab's open pits.
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Scientists estimate that on the whole, global manufacturers have put out roughly 8.3 billion metric tons of new plastic.
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Plastic wasn't reported in the ocean until the 1960s, when annual plastic production had reached 50 million metric tons.
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In another affected town, police dropped off 1.6 metric tons of drinking water by boat, according to the outlet.
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Last year, China's crude oil production decreased 22014% to 2.83 million metric tons, a third straight year of decline.
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According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, about 8 million metric tons of plastic enter the ocean annually.
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The Starship will be able to take 100 metric tons of payload, with refueling, to the moon and Mars.
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Apple is reportedly trying to buy several thousand metric tons of cobalt a year for at least five years.
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Cargill is expanding the facility to a daily crush capacity of 6,000 metric tons from 3,000, the companies said.
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He says, globally, there's 700 million metric tons of oversupply, 425 million tons of which are from China alone.
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That production capacity was equal to 20163 million metric tons, about the same as Germany's total steel making capacity.
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Still, greenhouses and soda bubbles together represent a small global market — perhaps six million metric tons of CO₂ annually.
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The Euromonitor data shows Americans will consume nearly 1.4 million metric tons of chocolate sold through retail in 2017.
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California's carbon emissions amounted to 246 million metric tons in 22050, the last year for which data is available.
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Last year we with partner agencies and national -- international partners we were able to stem 223 metric tons of cocaine.
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Each year, the world throws 8 billion metric tons of plastic into the ocean, about a dump truck every minute.
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Asteroid mining company Planetary Resources estimates that the 22,22020 rocks near Earth could hold two trillion metric tons of water.
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U.S. pork sales to Vietnam climbed by 334% by volume, to more than 16,500 metric tons, over the same period.
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The US Energy Information Administration reported gas-guzzling vehicles pumped out 2000 billion metric tons of CO2137 in 13 alone.
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Last month, for example, it auctioned off 30,000 metric tons of frozen pork from its central reserves to stabilize prices.
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At its peak in November, a staggering 2000 metric tons of methane spewed out of the ruptured well every hour.
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It has experienced a breakneck expansion since 2000 when it had an annual production capacity of 150 metric tons (MT).
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The commercial vehicle rules are expected to cut 1.1 billion metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions, the Obama administration estimated.
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The design of Starship requires an engine create "at least 170 metric tons of force," Musk said in another tweet.
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The company has orders for more shipments – including one for more than 100,000 metric tons – but they are on hold.
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In the first nine months of 28500, U.S. pork exports to China exceeded 6900,2628 metric tons despite the trade war.
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Story at a glance Each year, 8 million metric tons of plastic waste winds up floating around in our oceans.
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According to Pew Charitable Trusts, up to 13 million metric tons of plastic ends up in the ocean each year.
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Last year, ADM processed more than 57 million metric tons of corn and oilseeds and exported millions of tons more.
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They are the shining beacons of hope celebrating the internet's true gems hidden among the metric tons of disposable content.
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These standards will also reduce global warming emissions by 280 million metric tons and are projected to create 650,000 jobs.
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In 2017, Canada exported about 2.2 million metric tons of newsprint into the United States, according to the Commerce Department.
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In the first half of this year, central banks bought 554.563 metric tons of gold, reported the World Gold Council.
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China's Ministry of Transportation initially played down the possibility of a spill, then said 136,000 metric tons had been lost.
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Notably, however, a rapid phaseout of coal results in 131 million fewer metric tons of CO2 than the gradual phaseout.
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The robot resembled a giant mechanical chicken, albeit one with a giant head and weighing more than 4.5 metric tons.
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That would be the equivalent of preventing more than 365 million metric tons of carbon dioxide from entering the atmosphere.
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They will enable the zoo to offset the 7,425 metric tons of carbon dioxide carbon dioxide it releases each year.
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Microsoft expects to generate 16 million metric tons of CO2 in 2020, including indirect emissions from activities like corporate travel.
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Last year, industrial CO2 emissions reached nearly 37 billion metric tons, according to a report by the Global Carbon Project.
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The company's latest environmental report says it put 1.2 million metric tons of carbon emissions into the environment in 2018.
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Media reports said the vessel — believed to be about 72 feet long — could be carrying 3 metric tons of cocaine.
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Story at a glance About 903 million metric tons of plastic enter the ocean every year, according to some estimates.
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Its annual carbon footprint right now is about 44.4 million metric tons, equivalent to nearly 600,27 tanker trucks of gasoline.
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Its annual carbon footprint right now is about 44.4 million metric tons, equivalent to nearly 600,27 tanker trucks of gasoline.
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In the past, scientists have calculated that 4.8 to 12.7 million metric tons of plastic waste enter the oceans annually.
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Microsoft expects to release 16 million metric tons of CO2 in 2020, including indirect emissions from activities like corporate travel.
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Hauling around returned inventory in the US creates over 15 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions annually, Optoro found.
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It found that 6.3 billion of the 8.3 billion metric tons of all the plastic ever made has become waste.
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The fleet is expected to reduce carbon emissions by 4 million metric tons per year by 2030, the company said.
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He said that this year the government aimed to shut down at least 150 million metric tons of coal production.
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As a result, the net increase in operating steel capacity for 2016 was 36.5 million metric tons, the report said.
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According to the Montana Grain Growers Association, Montana sold 85033 million metric tons of that crop to China last year.
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An estimated eight metric tons of plastic wind up in the oceans every year, according to the Ellen MacArthur Foundation.
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John Hume, the world's largest rhino rancher with roughly 2023,300 animals, said he held five metric tons of rhino horn.
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The 28-nation bloc exported 5.3 million metric tons of steel to the U.S. in 2017, second only to Canada.
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The company says it's on track to reduce 1 billion metric tons of emissions from its global supply chains by 2030.
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In 2009 and 2010, a team of scientists discovered hundreds of millions of metric tons of water ice on the Moon.
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With a capacity of 0003MW, the facility prevents the emission of 279,000 metric tons of CO2 annually, according to the DOE.
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No other company in America has pledged to avoid emissions in the supply chain by 1 BILLION metric tons by 2030!
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The average American emits 15.6 metric tons per year, while Sri Lanka and Ghana emit less than one ton per capita.
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The agency says greenhouse gas emissions dropped 2.7 percent in 2016 — the latest year available — to about 430 million metric tons.
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Since 2009, Antarctica has lost almost 278 billion tons (252 billion metric tons) of ice per year, the new study found.
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If those recycling and consumption rates continue, around 12,000 metric tons of plastic waste will crowd landfills by 523, researchers estimate.
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Did you know that 20 to 50 million metric tons of electronic waste is thrown out every year across the world?
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Police seized more than eight metric tons (more than 17,500 pounds) of cocaine from a gang in a series of operations.
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And at the same time, everybody agreed that the daily influx from space is nearly 100 metric tons of cosmic dust.
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It's the smallest version of the rocket NASA intends to build that can loft 70 metric tons into lower Earth orbit.
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The authors of that paper found that the amount of plastic ranges from anywhere between 4.7 and 12.8 million metric tons.
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When complete, the rocket will be capable of carrying 0003 metric tons, or more than 2000,290 pounds, to lower Earth orbit.
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In 2017, the study estimated the Pentagon had released about 59 million metric tons of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.
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The country produced 120,000 metric tons or 70% of total rare earths in 2018, according to the United States Geological Survey.
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Some 350,000 metric tons of octopus are caught annually, and the real numbers may be higher, as fishing is often underreported.
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The entire fleet of electric cabs is estimated to cut carbon emissions by 856 thousand metric tons a year for Shenzhen.
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Key stat: In 65 years, we've gone from producing very little plastic to more than 400 million metric tons in 2015.
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A study published in 2013 found that by 2030, we could be recycling 1,000 metric tons of neodymium from wind turbines.
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Correction: An earlier version of this post stated that the mine would ship 60 metric tons of coal to Asia annually.
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The larger space station that China plans to launch in the 2020's is expected to be around 60 metric tons.
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Block 1B is designed with a much more powerful upper stage, allowing it to carry about 287,000 pounds (130 metric tons).
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On Friday, Abu Dhabi investment firm Noor Capital said it had bought 3 metric tons of gold from Venezuela's central bank.
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In 2006, the country consumed 46 million metric tons of pork, according to the US Department of Agriculture Foreign Agricultural Service.
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By 2014, it had jumped to 57 million metric tons (it has since dipped a bit, to 55 million in 2015).
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According to U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue, China has committed to buying an additional 10 million metric tons of U.S. soybeans.
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The new support includes nearly 58,000 metric tons of food and nutrition, the State Department said, as well as health supplies.
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And carbon emissions rose by 9 million metric tons, which is equivalent to putting 2 million additional cars on the road.
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The result: Cocaine production capacity reached 25 metric tons in 2000, the highest in over a decade, according to DEA figures.
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Over 179 million metric tons of carbon dioxide are produced in America every year just from people doing laundry at home.
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Though he doesn't have exact measurements, he estimates that Kilauea is emitting around 15,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide per day.
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Toshiba said this week that it hit a record in 2017 for recycled toner products: 228 metric tons of used toner.
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Slat told CNN earlier this year that the patch contained an estimated 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic, weighing 80,000 metric tons.
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Last year, more than 800,183 metric tons of American pork products shipped to Mexico, with a value of about $1.51 billion.
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More than 320 million metric tons of plastic are produced every year, and a lot of it accumulates in the oceans.
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The surrounding land, leased from the Alaska Mental Health Trust property, is expected to yield 203 billion metric tons of coal.
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The avoided global carbon dioxide emissions of all electric cars in 2017 was 29.4 million metric tons, according to the IEA.
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Amazon says 4 million metric tons of carbon will be saved annually by 2030 by switching over to these electric vans.
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Brazil will see its share increase to 2202 percent of the larger year-over-year total of 2628 million metric tons.
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According to Cool Effect's math, my donation will prevent the emission of the equivalent of 30 metric tons of carbon dioxide.
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Metric tons of other recipes to cook tonight and in coming days can be found in the deep veins of Cooking.
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By 2015, global annual plastics production surpassed 300 million metric tons, and the ocean contained an estimated 5.25 trillion plastic particles.
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Not to mention that the standards EPA is putting in place will increase greenhouse gas emissions by 1.7 billion metric tons.
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India buys between 150,000 and 240,000 metric tons of U.S. dry peas each year, nearly 30 percent of total U.S. exports.
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The Port Neches plant can produce more than 900 million pounds (408,408 metric tons) of chemicals, according to the company's website.
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This would have required over 300,000 boxes of decongestant pills each day, or between 250 and 743 metric tons of Oman.
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China is the world's largest rice grower and consumer, producing almost 213 million metric tons of rice in 221-222. 21978.
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This year, officials in Delhi banned firecrackers ahead of Diwali, arresting 210 people and confiscating 3.7 metric tons of illicit incendiaries.
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The earliest the company would deliver the technology to customers — which will process around 50 metric tons per day — is 2021.
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Every year, more than 23 billion metric tons of cement are produced, accounting for around 8% of global carbon dioxide emissions.
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The center found that on average, one American household emits 8.1 metric tons of CO2e each year through food consumption alone.
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So, if you donate $23.5, you can avert around 2350 metric tons of CO2 (or the equivalent in other greenhouse gases).
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Carbon dioxide emissions are expected to climb from 99 million to 163 million metric tons, the same as 35 million vehicles.
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If renewable energy increased to 30% by 2023, 16 million metric tons of CO2 emissions could be avoided, according to Greenpeace.
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But Chen Wen, an analyst for Wanlian Securities, estimated that the supplies could amount to hundreds of thousands of metric tons.
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They estimate that 325 billion metric tons or more of sulfur were ejected into the atmosphere after the giant rock's impact.
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By 20183, Japan's annual consumption of whale meat had grown to 233,000 metric tons, a quarter of its total meat consumption.
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Mr. Liu promised that China would purchase five million metric tons of American soybeans during the Oval Office meeting last week.
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"Ukraine already tells us they need millions and millions of metric tons right now," he said in a speech nine days later.
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A new study released on Tuesday says that spiders eat an estimated 400 to 800 million metric tons of insects every year.
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That's only about a quarter of the 31.7 million metric tons that were exported to China in 2017, before trade tensions escalated.
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They also cited an attempt to illicitly export 11,500 metric tons of heavy fuel oil from eastern Libya to Malta in February.
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In 2013, a meteor weighing 11,000 metric tons exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia, the largest object to hit Earth in over a centuy.
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Two years later experts returned to place yet more bait on the island, dropping 95 metric tons (105 tons) from three helicopters.
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Haendler expects China to import some 87 million metric tons of soybeans this year, up from 79-80 million tons in 2015.
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China's diesel exports soared 316.5 percent in March from a year earlier to 1.25 million metric tons, customs data showed on Thursday.
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According to Shanghai-based consultant JCI, China's pork production is forecast to fall nearly 16%, or 8.5 million metric tons in 2019.
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Why it matters: Plastic makes up more than 60% of ocean litter — millions of metric tons — and that amount is only increasing.
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China's coffee and tea consumption is expected to climb to 750,218 metric tons by 2020, from 82.573,748 in 2015, according to Statista.
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Alcoa said it expects the smelter, which has an annual capacity of 413,000 metric tons per year, to restart on July 26.
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Geyer's study projected that by 2050 about 12,000 million metric tons of plastic waste could be in landfills or the natural environment.
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In 2015, a Science paper estimated that around 8 million metric tons of plastic waste entered the ocean in 2010 from land.
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Block 1 is the less powerful form of the rocket, capable of getting 13,000 pounds (95 metric tons) to low Earth orbit.
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That version would be able "soft land 6.5 metric tons on the lunar surface and [have] an assent on top," Bezos said.
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Together, the tightly packed satellites weighed 13.6 metric tons, "making this launch the heaviest mission for SpaceX to date," according to SpaceNews.
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Individually, each American throws out about 3.2 kilograms of garbage a day, or over 90 metric tons of garbage in a lifetime.
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Tens of thousands of metric tons of guano were exported every year, accounting for up to 60 percent of the Peruvian economy.
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Or so the hunters hoped: The meteorite must have been many metric tons, but they couldn't see it because of the water.
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The Standish satellite weighed 6 metric tons and sets a new record for the space company for a satellite of this kind.
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By 2015, 6.3 billion metric tons of that had become plastic waste, but just 4.23 percent had been recycled, the researchers found.
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Since 2015, the Coast Guard has set records for cocaine seizures, preventing more than 777 metric tons from reaching the US market.
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Approximately 6.7 million metric tons of tobacco were produced in 2016, with China leading the way at 85033 million, or 40 percent.
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Feature Over the course of four months, 97,100 metric tons of methane quietly leaked out of a single well into California's sky.
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Emissions in the electric power sector dropped 25 percent between 2005 and 2016, from 2,401 million metric tons (mmt) to 1,809 mmt.
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Globally, more than 330 million metric tons of plastics is produced each year, leaving potential sources of microplastic pollution all around us.
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Last year, Mexico imported nearly 650,000 metric tons of pork legs and shoulders worth an estimated $1.07 billion, according to government data.
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The nation's poultry industry produces about 165,000 metric tons of meat a year, according to the Department of Animal Production and Health.
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It will capture up to 85033 million metric tons of carbon dioxide annually, the emissions of about 250,000 cars, the developers said.
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Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the United States in 2016, the most recent year of data available, were 85033,511 million metric tons.
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As proposed, the new rule would cut greenhouse gas emissions by about 1 million metric tons under what they would normally be.
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By the 1990s, the United States had an arsenal of 27,700 metric tons of chemical agents, and Russia had at least 40,000.
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Chinese importers reportedly bought a total of 600,000 metric tons of soybeans from U.S. Pacific Northwest export terminals for October to December.
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Experts say there has never been so large a spill of condensate; up to 111,000 metric tons has poured into the ocean.
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An Energy Department website says the two countries combined have 20163 metric tons designated for destruction - enough to make 17,000 nuclear weapons.
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Instead, under a 2000 treaty, the United States agreed to transform the 34 metric tons of plutonium into MOX, unusable for bombs.
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With an estimated 10 billion metric tons of marine life, including fish, shrimp and squid, these depths offer a seemingly endless bounty.
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They estimate that billions of contact lenses — weighing at least 22 metric tons — may be flushed in the United States every year.
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By some estimates, the hermit regime has the world's third-largest chemical weapons stockpile — up to 5,2003 metric tons of chemical agents.
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The forest and all its biomass hold 3 gigatons — or 3 billion metric tons — of carbon, more than any other U.S. forest.
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From the 163s to today, 216 billion metric tons of plastic have been produced, with around half of it made since 225.
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But in the last three months, Australia&aposs fires have emitted roughly 350 million metric tons of CO2, according to the Herald.
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By some estimates, the hermit regime has the world's third-largest chemical weapons stockpile — up to 5,000 metric tons of chemical agents.
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The firm said it expects to emit 16 million metric tons of carbon this year, greater than the entire country of Slovenia.
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By the end of 2017, global carbon emissions from fossil fuels alone rose two percent — to a record 37 billion metric tons.
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The new aid program seeks to boost monthly imports to 1.4 million metric tons from 1.1 million last year, the statement said.
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The Amazon rainforest currently absorbs about 2 billion metric tons of carbon each year, roughly 5 percent of the world's annual emissions.
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Hebei province, where Baoding is situated, aims to continue to cut iron and steelmaking capacity by 20 million metric tons in 2018.
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Alongside food, 65 metric tons of emergency drugs, 10 million chlorine tablets and tons of bleaching powder have also been hurriedly dispatched.
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In 2014, more than half a million participants collected over 16 million pounds (7,200 metric tons) of trash in just one day.
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According to the International Atomic Energy Agency and the Nuclear Energy Agency, about 55,000 metric tons of uranium are mined every year.
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Gina McCarthy, who heads the EPA, said on Monday that the rules could avoid up to 400,000 metric tons of methane by 2025.
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In 2016, Apple's comprehensive carbon footprint was 29.5 million metric tons – a 23 percent drop from 2015's total of 38.4 million tons.
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Globally, more than 330 million metric tons of plastic is produced each year, and global plastic production is expected to triple by 2050.
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By comparison, the researchers estimated that, in 2016, streaming videos on YouTube produced the equivalent of 10 million metric tons of carbon dioxide.
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Beta will be a medium launch vehicle, with greater cargo capacity compared to Alpha and a maximum load of around 8.5 metric tons.
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It'll be able to delivery as many as 20 metric tons to geostationary transfer orbit, or over 100 tons to low-Earth orbit.
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According to the report, the landfill handles 3700 metric tons of waste ever day, accounting for about a third of the city's garbage.
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The study estimates that 270 to 659 million metric tons of CO2 have been reduced over the first seven years of the mandates.
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Government and WFP assessments suggest Sri Lanka's 2017 rice harvest could be less than half the 000 million metric tons recorded last year.
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Instead, a month later, he agreed to a deal with Russia to remove and destroy 20163 metric tons of Syria's chemical weapons stockpile.
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Central bank net purchases reached 22017 metric tons in 21, 2090 percent higher than in the previous year when 43 tons were bought.
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The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development estimates that there are about 700 million metric tons of excess steel capacity globally today.
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The four ships were carrying just over 71,000 metric tons of fuel, which represents over 10 percent of Yemen's total monthly fuel needs.
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For reference, a single gigaton is equivalent to 1 billion metric tons — and there are about 2,200 pounds in a single metric ton.
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Thanks to massive government subsidies, Chinese smelters can now make nearly 11 million more metric tons of primary aluminum than China actually consumes.
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By Thanksgiving, it had increased to 58 metric tons per hour, doubling the rate of methane emissions in the entire Los Angeles Basin.
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The release of 58 metric tons per hour doubled the rate of emissions in the entire area; it was not double the rate.
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The team spent three and a half weeks building the structure, which is made of approximately 24,250 pounds (11 metric tons) of sand.
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So far this year, the fires have let loose more than 140 million metric tons, as much as Belgium emits in a year.
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Through the process of photosynthesis, the Amazon converts 20% of the Earth's oxygen, thus storing 80 to 140 billion metric tons of carbon.
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According to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), the chlor-alkali industry imported 750 metric tons of raw asbestos from Brazil and Russia.
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The Ivory Coast continues to be the world's largest producer of cacao, with an estimated 2.12 million metric tons for this year's harvest.
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The 2019 total is the second year of decline, following the 209.6 metric tons seized in 2018, according to the Inspector General report.
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Looking at the bigger picture, the retail giant wants to slash emissions from its value chain by one billion metric tons by 2030.
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At a width of 59 feet and weighing roughly 20023,000 metric tons, it was a big meteor, but not the biggest ever recorded.
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At a width of 21 feet and weighing roughly 2450,250 metric tons, it was a big meteor, but not the biggest ever recorded.
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Oceans have already risen more than 8 inches since 1880, and between 1992 and 2017, Antarctica lost 2.71 trillion metric tons of ice.
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More than 5,400 metric tons of space materials is estimated to have survived reentry in the past 50 years, with no reported casualties.
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One recent calculation found that forest restoration across all viable areas could soak up hundreds of billions of metric tons of carbon dioxide.
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That's not exactly a major contributor to the world's carbon emissions, but it does outrank Tuvalu, which generates 7,000 metric tons a year.
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There are about 90 billion metric tons of carbon embedded in the Amazon, equal to about a decade's worth of greenhouse gas emissions.
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In 1969, the year of the biggest catch on record, 11,000 metric tons, there were 223 Maine vessels shrimping, and 42 from Massachusetts.
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By early March, ABC Bakery had gone through more than 30 metric tons of dragon fruit, the equivalent of more than 66,000 pounds.
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While waiting for the construction of the plant, Japan amassed 47 metric tons of plutonium – enough to make 6,000 bombs – from its reactors.
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On Monday the country's environment minister, Yeo Bee Yin, said she ordered 3,737 metric tons of trash to be returned to 13 countries.
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In 2015, 6.3 billion metric tons of that had become plastic waste — and only 9 percent of that was recycled, a study said.
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Details: The Greenland Ice Sheet is contributing to global average sea-level rise, losing about 267 billion metric tons of ice each year.
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A gigaton of CO2 is 1 billion metric tons, or roughly the amount of greenhouse gas produced by 211 million cars a year.
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Last year, Beijing exported about 824,000 metric tons of steel to the U.S. at a value of a little more than $2.4 billion.
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The developers now expect the plant to produce 1.5 million metric tons of petrochemicals each year, about a third more than originally envisioned.
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In 2015, 6.3 billion metric tons of that had become plastic waste — and only 9 percent of that was recycled, a study said.
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One sign of progress for the administration: a commitment from the Chinese to purchase an additional 10 million metric tons of American soybeans.
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Based on estimates from the US International Trade Commission, total United States imports of processed granite were about 206,000 metric tons in 1996.
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The impact of even absolutely everyone switching to a plant-based diet (knocking off 270 metric tons from total global emissions, or about 4 percent of the per-person total in the U.S.) is minuscule compared to, for instance, regulating the 100 companies responsible for 71 percent of total historical emissions, a total of 923 billion metric tons since the Industrial Age started.
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CO423 emissions from all human activities, including fossil fuels, industry and land-use change, will reach around 41.5 billion metric tons, the report said.
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In the first phase of the operation, two helicopters were used to drop 212.9 metric tons (55 tons) of poisoned bait on the island.
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The study, published in the journal Nature, showed that Antarctica lost a total of 2710 trillion metric tons of ice between 21992 and 13.
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And so putting it into effect would lead to 13 million metric tons of greenhouse gas reductions per year on average, the analysis found.
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London (CNN Business)Britain produces about 5 million metric tons of plastic waste every year, but less than a third of that is recycled.
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I love taking online quizzes, so I did this and got 19 metric tons, which is well above the global average of about 5.
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Each aircraft may hold anywhere between 26 and 30 metric tons -- and the packages potentially pose a danger to anyone caught in their path.
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There are about 110 million metric tons of rare earth oxide, with the deposits located in China, Brazil, Russia, the U.S., India and Australia.
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For one, there's more awareness now about the astounding quantity of plastic — between 4.7 and 12.8 million metric tons — floating around in the ocean.
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Continuing on with the current standards would help reduce greenhouse gas emissions by some 900 million metric tons, according to the EPA's original estimates.
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Post the deal, Tronox will operate 11 titanium dioxide plants in eight countries with a total capacity of 1.3 million metric tons per year.
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The banana is the world's most popular fruit crop, with over 100 million metric tons produced annually in over 130 tropical and subtropical countries.
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Since the rest of the world thinks in metric tons (tonnes), it is helpful to think of 2.409 billion bushels as 61.2 million tonnes.
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The company now expects to ship 2170 million to 330 million metric tons in 2016, down from its earlier guidance of 330 million tons.
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The one exception is Climeworks' Iceland pilot plant, which captures its modest annual 50 metric tons of CO2 and buries it as basalt rock.
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After all, America's cars, trucks, trains, and planes are responsible for 28 percent of the country's approximately 6,511 million metric tons of annual emissions.
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That means burning all the coal at the lease sites would add more than a billion metric tons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere.
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Overall, the U.S. produced 22019,586.2 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent in 2015, and annual emissions declined for the first time since 2012.
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Holtec International wants a 40-year license to store up to 8,85033 metric tons of nuclear waste at a facility in southeastern New Mexico.
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The result: more than 81,000 metric tons of nuclear waste is now stored at 61 current and former reactor sites scattered across the country.
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But their use avoided the equivalent of 29.4 million metric tons of carbon dioxide of greenhouse gas emissions, compared with gasoline or diesel cars.
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The massive, single-core rocket will be responsible for launching a huge spaceship filled with 100 metric tons of passengers and cargo from Earth.
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Jeff Bezos's pet aerospace exploration project is planning to send "several metric tons" of unspecified cargo to the Moon in the next five years.
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The agency said the regulations would lower methane emissions by 510,000 tons in 2025, the equivalent of 11 million metric tons of carbon dioxide.
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That would be slightly more than the 1.3 million metric tons during the previous harvest, one of the lowest in more than a century.
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That would be slightly more than the 1.3 million metric tons during the previous harvest, one of the lowest in more than a century.
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Because HFCs are so potent, the rule was expected to cut U.S. emissions equivalent to 85033 million metric tons of carbon dioxide per year.
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"Most people think we're going to need close to 40 to 80 metric tons of payload when we send humans to Mars," said Braun.
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A December report shows the world is on track to create 37.1 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide pollution in 2018 -- yet another record.
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In 2016, Yibin Hengda won environmental inspectors' approval to build plants in Jiangan County that could produce 2,300 metric tons of chemicals a year.
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Russia has said it destroyed almost 40,000 metric tons of chemical weapons under the treaty, including sarin and VX. But Novichok was conspicuously absent.
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Of an estimated 8,300 million metric tons of plastic produced to date, roughly 60 percent is floating in the oceans or stuffed in landfills.
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Every entity emitting more than 25,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) must purchase allowances equal to the tons of CO2e they emit.
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But about 8 million metric tons of plastic — a mass greater than that of the Great Pyramid of Giza — enters the ocean each year.
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Meanwhile, it would reduce region-wide greenhouse gas emissions by 10 to 11 million metric tons (about 3 to 4 percent of the total).
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Of that, roughly 6.3 billion metric tons has been thrown away, 79 percent of it in landfills or in other parts of the environment.
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Under an agreement with Russia, the United States was to convert 34 metric tons of plutonium into fuel for civilian reactors that generate electricity.
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I am trying to keep track of what my carbon impact is this year — America produces about 20 metric tons per person a year.
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The country produced nearly four million metric tons of fish in 2016, a more than fourfold increase from 1990, according to World Bank data.
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Air conditioning accounts for 6 percent of household energy use in the United States, releasing 117 million metric tons of carbon dioxide per year.
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The state's Public Utilities Commission set a target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions to 46 million metric tons by 2030, 463% below 1990 levels.
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In September last year, the Afghan counternarcotics police seized more than nine metric tons of chemicals that could be used to make the drug.
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To start with, take a look at this chart, which shows how many metric tons of CO2 you can avert by making various decisions.
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Each year, the oil and gas industry releases approximately 13 million metric tons of methane into the atmosphere through venting, flaring, and equipment leaks.
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Authorities say 70 metric tons of fish have been retrieved in the 8.7 km Nhieu Loc–Thi Nghe canal alone so far since April.
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"50 million metric tons of e-waste is generated globally per year, with an average of more than 6 kg per person," it said.
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Microsoft expects to put out 16 million metric tons of carbon this year, which is roughly as much as 15 coal-fired power plants.
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Compared to the 27 million metric tons of cow milk produced worldwide, only about 3 million tons of camel milk are produced each year.
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In the last five years, India bought 60,000 to 120,000 metric tons of lentils a year, representing 23 percent of total U.S. lentil exports.
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China has recently set a goal to cut excess steel capacity by 100 million to 150 million metric tons over a five-year period.
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Emissions from ships burn approximately 1 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases every year, accounting for 3% of global emissions.
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As of 2016 there were approximately 150 million metric tons of plastic in the world's oceans, per a report by the World Economic Forum.
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If we switched to a vegan diet, we could cut our carbon dioxide emissions by 0.3 to 1.6 metric tons per person per year.
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The project is designed to ship 85033 million metric tons of liquefied natural gas per year, mainly to Asia, according to the Vancouver Sun.
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That plan was aimed at reducing agriculture's net emissions and sequestering more than 120 million metric tons of carbon dioxide per year by 2025.
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The state's Public Utilities Commission set a target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions to 46 million metric tons by 2030, 463% below 1990 levels.
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More than 47 metric tons of USAID supplies were sent to the Bahamas to help an estimated 44,000 people, USAID director Mark Green tweeted.
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By switching to renewable natural gas, UPS estimates its vehicles will reduce as much as 1.2 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions through 2026.
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While at CERN this past April, researcher Stefania Bordoni showed me the DUNE prototypes, each of which will contain only 770 metric tons of argon.
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Looking at the bigger picture, the business wants to cut emissions in its global value chain by one billion metric tons by the year 2030.
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Three metric tons (6,613 pounds) of garbage have been collected from the mountain in just the first two weeks of the scheme, according to AFP.
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The country has a growing nuclear stockpile, as well as up to 5,000 metric tons of chemical weapons, according to the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI).
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The entire patch weighs some 25 metric tons, 22016 percent of which is made up of fishing nets, eel traps, and other fishing industry gear.
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The entire patch weighs some 79 metric tons, 53 percent of which is made up of fishing nets, eel traps, and other fishing industry gear.
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EPA estimates that annual methane emissions from the domestic natural gas system were roughly 130 million metric tons of CO2 equivalent (MMTCO2-e) in 2012.
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The remaining rules would reduce carbon dioxide emissions by about 99 million metric tons over a 30-year period, according to an Energy Department analysis.
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SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket, which flew for the first time last year, is able to put 22020,700 pounds (63.8 metric tons) into low Earth orbit.
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A study from last year reported that 8.3 billion metric tons of plastics have been produced since 1950, with more than half made since 2004.
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The enclosure, weighing more than 33,0003 metric tons and expected to be completed next year, will be one of the largest movable structures ever constructed.
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The enclosure, weighing more than 33,000 metric tons and expected to be completed next year, will be one of the largest movable structures ever constructed.
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Malaysia will send some 22013,22018 metric tons of plastic scrap back to where it came from, places like the U.S., Canada, Spain, and Saudi Arabia.
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Malaysia will send some 22013,228 metric tons of plastic scrap back to where it came from, places like the U.S., Canada, Spain, and Saudi Arabia.
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By eating less beef, the U.S. avoided an estimated 185 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions over that 10-year period, the NRDC said.
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The study did take a look at the production of biodegradable and bio-based plastics, but found they only amounted to about 4 metric tons.
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The deal calls for China's Zhejiang Provincial Energy Group to purchase 1 million metric tons of LNG per year from Exxon, America's largest energy company.
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The increase in efficiency would cut CO2 emissions by hundreds of millions of metric tons, and reduce oil consumption by more than 1 billion barrels.
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By August 2014, 600 metric tons of deadly weapons had been destroyed (in the military parlance, "demilitarized") aboard the US Navy vessel MV Cape Ray.
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It also in 2018 refurbished more than 7.8 million Apple devices for resale, and diverted more than 48,000 metric tons of electronic waste from landfills.
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Gil said fuel consumption would be cut from 91 metric tons per million pesos in gross domestic product this year to 20183 tons in 2019.
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An estimated 3 million gallons (11.4 million liters) of wastewater poured out, carrying nearly 540 tons (490 metric tons) of metals, mostly iron and aluminum.
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Three years ago they used to produce above 400 million tons, at this point in time, our base view is about 270 million metric tons.
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China, which is the world's top soybean importer, also canceled purchases of 9,853 metric tons of U.S. soy this month, according to Thursday's USDA data.
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According to a 2015 report from UCLA, the average person in the city of San Francisco emits just 6.7 metric tons of CO2 per year.
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Iron ore shipments for the three months through December were at 42.1 million metric tons, compared with 43 million tons in the previous three months.
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The rule, finalized in August, is expected to reduce carbon pollution by 1.1 billion metric tons and oil consumption by up to two billion barrels.
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They said they had not yet determined whether to dispose of all 34 metric tons of plutonium at the WIPP site, or another site elsewhere.
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Total gas exports so far this year reached 12,000 metric tons for LPG and more than 100,000 cubic meters (3.5 million cubic feet) for condensates.
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A report by the British government estimated that smart meters could save nearly 210 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent from 443 to 244.
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WGC said approximately 3,200 metric tons of gold annually are mined, on average, adding about 1.7 percent to the total stock of gold ever mined.
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The rule, if fully implemented, will reduce 2628,28500 short tons of methane in 6900, or the equivalent of 2628 million metric tons of carbon dioxide.
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The Starship, with refueling, could land on the moon or Mars, taking with it 100 metric tons of passengers, cargo, or a combination of both.
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In 85033, our industry captured 8 million metric tons of carbon dioxide, the equivalent of removing 1.7 million cars from the road for a year.
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The set-top box agreement has saved consumers $28503 million on their energy bills and avoided nearly three million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions.
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Meanwhile, the U.S. sold 82,700 metric tons of soybeans in new sales to Mexico, 13,800 to Taiwan, 60,000 to Argentina and 52,600 to the Netherlands.
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The mayor's office said the eight buildings listed release about 2628,28500 metric tons of greenhouse gases annually, the same as the output of 6900,2628 cars. .
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Saudi Aramco, owned by the Saudi royal family, has released over 40,000 metric tons of greenhouse gases between 1992 and 2017, according to The Intercept.
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The leak forced thousands of people from their homes for long periods of time and released nearly 100,000 metric tons of methane into the atmosphere.
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The final rule, the EPA predicts, will cut 520,000 short tons of methane in 2025, the equivalent of 11 million metric tons of carbon dioxide.
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The BBC investigation focused on British Airways, which it said produced an extra 18,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide in 2018 thanks to the practice.
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The report found that new oil and gas drilling in the U.S. could easily unlock 120 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions by 2050.
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China, which is also the world's top soybean importer, canceled purchases of 9,853 metric tons of U.S. soy last week, according to Thursday's USDA data.
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According to a 2017 study published in the journal Science Advances, only 9% of 8,300 million metric tons of plastic ever produced has been recycled.
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The oil and gas industry pumped a total of almost 9.8 million metric tons of methane into the atmosphere in 2014, according to the inventory.
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Colombia is the world's cocaine factory, producing a UN-estimated 1,379 metric tons of the drug in 2017, up by nearly a third from 2016.
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Amazon has pledged to give $100 million to the fund, which has the goal of removing millions of metric tons of carbon from the atmosphere.
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The rule, if fully implemented, will reduce 520,000 short tons of methane in 2025, or the equivalent of 11 million metric tons of carbon dioxide.
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This is despite the presence of 13 million metric tons of rare earth elements within the continental United States, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
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Catalyst had been exporting more than 425,000 metric tons of newsprint into the United States before the tariffs went into effect, according to a spokesman.
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Around the world, aviation emits about 860 million metric tons of carbon dioxide every year, or about 2 percent of total global greenhouse gas emissions.
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He also cited the pipeline's long-term contribution to climate change — possibly more than 22 billion metric tons of carbon pollution, according to Scientific American.
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A 2010 E.P.A. assessment of the program's impacts estimated that the program would achieve 138 million metric tons in greenhouse gas emissions reductions by 2022.
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If it burns, that carbon will all go into the atmosphere The Amazon contains 90 to 140 billion metric tons of carbon, according to WWF.
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Before the fires, land conversion and deforestation made the Amazon release up to 0.5 billion metric tons of carbon per year, according to the WWF.
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Canada's primary aluminum production through March of this year has totaled 797,85033 metric tons; U.S. smelters output was 181,763 mt, according to Aluminum Association statistics.
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The iPhone maker is seeking contracts to buy several thousand metric tons of cobalt for five years or longer, Bloomberg reported, citing an anonymous source.
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The company said that, through its actions, it expected to prevent the release of 150 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere.
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The United States imported 30.1 million metric tons of steel last year, making it the world's largest steel importer, according to the International Trade Administration.
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Then there's the question of Amazon's convenient deliveries and massive data centers, which together emitted about 44.4 million metric tons of carbon dioxide in 2018.
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Plastic is made from fossil fuels, and its production releases greenhouse gases to the tune of more than 850 million metric tons in 2019 alone.
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This could result in a loss of potential catch amounting to about 3.4 million metric tons for each degree Celsius of atmospheric warming, he said.
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Its emissions have grown each fiscal year between 2017 and 2019, from 149,000 to 244,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent for its data centers.
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The OECD Steel Committee estimates worldwide production capacity at almost 2628 million metric tons (MMT) in 28500, far more than the 6900 MMT actually produced.
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Anyway, my answer is some filthy-rich prince who's into child porn AND regular porn and amasses metric tons of each just because he can.
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White oil imports from the U.S. were 3,490 metric tons or worth only $8.7 million during the same period, roughly 6% of China's total imports.
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In 6900, long-term contracts by non state-owned companies accounted for 2628 million metric tons (mt), or 28503 percent of contracted volumes into China.
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The article and chart, using information from the council, also misstated the equivalent amounts of carbon dioxide; they were measured in metric tons, not megatons.
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The heavy-lift rocket can send 64 metric tons of payload into low Earth orbit, making it the most powerful launch vehicle in the world.
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Weighing more than a trillion metric tons, one of the largest chunks of ice ever recorded has broken off the Antarctic Peninsula, scientists confirmed today.
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All in all, cows and their ruminant cohorts (goats, sheep, and oxen) pump a staggering 80 million metric tons of gas into our fragile atmosphere.
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If companies extract all the oil that today's technology allows them to, burning it would add 22 billion metric tons of carbon to the atmosphere.
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The researchers' analysis found that the Frankfurt Fair Tower in Germany (chosen by lead author Roland Dittmeyer of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, by the way, because of its landmark status in the city's skyline), with a total volume of about 270,25 cubic meters, could capture 193 metric tons of CO219 per hour and produce up to 212,200 metric tons of fuel a year.
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A Coast Guard official told CNN that the service interdicted 6,346 undocumented migrants and 201 metric tons of cocaine and 52,613 pounds of marijuana in 2016.
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The South American nation exported 2.9 million metric tons of semi-finished steel to the US in 2017, making it the second-largest exporter after Canada.
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At the same time, after importing no U.S. coking coal from 2014 through 2016, China bought 400,000 metric tons by the end of February, Reuters said.
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Washington (CNN)The U.S. will purchase from Iran 32 metric tons of heavy water, a key component of nuclear reactors, according to a senior administration official.
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Coal used for US power generation is expected to decline by 215% this year to 22017 million metric tons, according to the US Energy Information Administration.
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Also, Chinese buyers recently pulled orders for 3,247 metric tons of American pork — representing the largest cancellation in more than a year, Reuters reported this week.
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According to a trade group called the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI), the U.S. recycles 150 million metric tons of scrap materials every year altogether.
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Before the fires, land conversion and deforestation caused the Amazon to release up to 0.5 billion metric tons of carbon per year, according to the WWF.
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Based on these trends, the researchers then estimated that because of the trash ban, 111 million metric tons of plastic waste will be stranded by 2030.
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Keeping the rules in place could reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 540 million metric tons, and cut oil consumption by 21 billion barrels, the agency determined.
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It has the ability to lift into orbit nearly 64 metric tons (141,000 pounds) - more than a 737 jetliner loaded with passengers, crew, luggage and fuel.
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On a volume basis, 2018 U.S. beef exports were up 7 percent to 1.35 million metric tons, which is above the previous record tallied in 2011.
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The death of the Clean Power Act alone could result in an estimated increase of over 202 million metric tons of carbon emissions annually by 2025.
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Since 2628, the RFS has led to nearly 28500 million metric tons of additional carbon emissions, according to a report from the Center for Regulatory Solutions.
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The new Islamabad International Airport, 30 kilometers from the capital, will be capable of serving 9 million passengers per year and 50,000 metric tons of cargo.
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All the methane emitted on Earth amounts to about 550 million metric tons per year, with a shade more than half of that from human activities.
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In Pennsylvania alone, operators released at least 97,21625 metric tons of methane in 2900, though officials say the real figure could easily be eight times higher.
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Out of that, 24.8 million metric tons came from manufacturing, while just 0.4 million came from the company's other facilities, such as its offices and stores.
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That brings accumulated exports of U.S. soybeans to China for the marketing year to 27 million metric tons, 20.5 percent less than this time last year.
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Colombian cocaine production also surged to record levels, reaching 710 metric tons in 2016, which is more than double what it was just two years earlier.
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Included in that quantity is 28500 metric tons that the United States committed to dispose of on a bilateral basis with Russia in a 6900 agreement.
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The EPA's rule, released in May, would eliminate about 85033,000 tons of methane in 2025, or the equivalent of 11 million metric tons of carbon dioxide.
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And if business continues as usual, by the end of the century it will be an unfathomable 10 million metric tons of solid waste a day.
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The three leases at the mine site, which is in the Galilee Basin in Central Queensland, are estimated to contain 11 billion metric tons of coal.
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No, the duo was accused of covertly transporting a combined total of 1,287 metric tons of garlic across the Norway-Sweden border on 59 separate occasions.
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South Korea's Ministry of Defense estimates that its northern neighbor has between 2,500 and 5,000 metric tons of chemical weapons, including sarin and VX nerve agents.
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Facebook, according to its website, was responsible for 979,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent last year, and roughly two-thirds came from powering data centers.
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It has the ability to lift nearly 64 metric tons (141,000 pounds) into orbit - more than a 737 jetliner loaded with passengers, crew, luggage and fuel.
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It was being used to store chemicals, including 140 metric tons of urea, a precursor substance used to make cocaine, according to the Venezuelan intelligence documents.
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Starbucks is at the forefront of a movement that will work to cull contributions to the 8 million metric tons of plastic already in the ocean.
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Before the recent fires, the Amazon released up to 0.5 billion metric tons of carbon per year due to deforestation, according to the World Wildlife Fund.
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The wooden structure of the new 18-story Brock Commons dormitory at the University of British Columbia, for example, stores 1,753 metric tons of carbon dioxide.
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It revealed in September that it emitted about 53 million metric tons of carbon dioxide in 2018, making it one of the world's top 200 emitters.
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In March, the government announced plans to slash steel capacity by 50 million metric tons this year in efforts to tackle pollution and curb excess supply.
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Delta emits around 40 million metric tons of carbon dioxide annually, roughly equivalent to a year's worth of emissions from about 10 coal-fired power plants.
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According to the same G.A.O. report, around 80,000 metric tons of spent fuel from commercial reactors is stockpiled at 80 interim storage sites in 35 states.
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According to BAFTA, the British film organization, a single hour of television produced in the U.K.—fiction or nonfiction—produces 2000 metric tons of carbon dioxide.
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Most of the plastic that has been made is no longer in use — about 6.3 billion metric tons of plastic have been thrown away since 1950.
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On Thursday, officials from the U.S. Soybean Export Council said they had learned that China made purchases of 600,000 to one million metric tons of soybeans.
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Some of the delegates who were supposed to come represented new buyers and were each expected to make purchase orders of up to 200 metric tons.
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Australian officials said there is a "high risk" the remaining heavy fuel oil on the ship -- about 600 metric tons -- could contaminate the area even further.
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It estimated that China now has capacity to produce more than 8003 billion metric tons annually, more than the United States, Japan, Europe and Russia combined.
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To advance that goal, U.S. officials announced last week that it would purchase 85033 metric tons of heavy water from Iran for a reported $8.6 million.
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However, over the past 85033 years, for every metric ton of carbon reduction in the U.S., 18 metric tons were emitted by China and India alone.
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In the first eight months of 2019, Britain shipped more than 45,443 metric tons of pork to China according to industry press, almost double 2018 volumes.
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The Ocean Cleanup's founder, Boyan Slat, told CNN earlier this year that the patch contained an estimated 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic, weighing 80,000 metric tons.
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Earlier this month, privately run Chinese firms bought more than 600,000 metric tons of soybeans, a key move after China suspended all U.S. farm product purchases.
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The country began rejecting shipments containing millions of metric tons of U.S. corn because they contained the strain, which was unapproved for import, the farmers said.
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In 2016, the biggest importers of palm oil were India, the European Union and China, which imported a combined 20 million metric tons, according to Amnesty International.
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As the world warms -- thanks largely to the 1,200 metric tons of carbon dioxide we humans are pumping into the atmosphere each second -- the ice is disappearing.
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Ulta Beauty, for example, has created a Corporate Energy Team which reduced the store's electric consumption by over 3,000 metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions in 2017.
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Completed in 2000, Agua Caliente is located on a 2550,2160 acre site and is set to offset roughly 2000 million metric tons of CO2407 over 23 years.
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Climate change news: Arctic sea ice growth stunted again It's been losing ice at an average pace of 287 billion metric tons a year, according to NASA.
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By the numbers: The group's 2030 projections show... The power sector effect of the law, SB 100, would cut 84 million metric tons of CO2 per year.
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Another 91 million metric tons annually comes from taking a large bite out of transportation and heating emissions, with most of that coming on the transportation side.
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They found an overall two percent decrease in the average oxygen concentration of the planet's oceans, equaling around 5 petamoles, or 80 billion metric tons, of oxygen.
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During his four-year career, Roggio helped seize over 11-metric tons of cocaine, completed 57 rescues and stopped countless people from being trafficked, including small children.
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Where it stands: The companies are negotiating a 20-year deal for Aramco to buy 5 million metric tons annually from the project, according to the release.
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That's about 1.72 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions that now have a much better chance of staying locked up deep beneath Florida's aquamarine Gulf waters.
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Electronic waste is out of control — with about 20 to 50 million metric tons thrown out every year — and it's not doing great things to our environment.
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Throughout the first half of 2016, carbon emissions in the US were as low as they had been since 1991, hovering somewhere around 2.53 billion metric tons.
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So far, it's emitted more than 96,000 metric tons of methane, the equivalent of putting half a million more passenger vehicles on the road for a year.
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In disused home appliances, computers, mobile phones, and other electronic equipment, or e-waste, we generate close to 45 million metric tons of waste every single year.
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According to Namal Karunaratne, national organizer of the All Ceylon Peasants' Federation, the country's monsoons used to bring around 4.5 million metric tons of rain each year.
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Workers removed 3,159 metric tons of dirt to build the tunnel, dirt they evenly deposited in different sections of a walled-in lot adjacent to the house.
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Domestic manufacturing also boomed last year, posting year-over-year emissions increases of 5.7 percent and sending up 55 million metric tons more carbon than in 20183.
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More than 77,000 metric tons of methane, a greenhouse gas 80 times more powerful than carbon dioxide, has already spouted into the California atmosphere since early October.
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Somewhere between roughly 5 million and 13 million metric tons of plastic trash are drifting into the sea annually, researchers said in a study published in 2015.
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In the last three years, Chinese steel exports more than doubled to 107 million metric tons, higher than the annual raw steel production of the United States.
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Last year, a study published in scientific journal Science Advances estimated that the modern world had produced around 8.3 billion metric tons of virgin — newly manufactured — plastic.
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Critics doubt that the Ocean Project can accomplish its goals given that an estimated 8 million metric tons of plastic are channeled into our oceans every year.
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State officials have said the leak accounted at its peak for a fourth of California's 20 million metric tons a year in greenhouse gas emissions from methane.
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The solar installations tracked in the SEIA report produce enough electricity to power 402,000 U.S. houses and offset 2.4 million metric tons of carbon dioxide each year.
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The company claims that, by 2020, this would reduce manmade greenhouse gas emissions by about 20083 million metric tons of carbon dioxide, the main global warming pollutant.
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Finalized in 2016, the rule was intended to prevent the equivalent of 11 million metric tons of carbon dioxide escaping into the air by the year 2025.
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The EPA had in 2015 estimated that limiting the pollutants' use could by 2020 reduce annual greenhouse gas emissions by 26 million to 31 million metric tons.
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Less water used also means less energy used to heat, pump and treat water — thereby eliminating 28503 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions from our atmosphere.
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Models and tests suggested that the sweeper would travel about fifteen centimetres per second faster than the plastic and collect 2.2 metric tons of trash a week.
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Here are the salient facts: In 2016, we produced 11.3 million metric tons of pork; we consumed 9.5 million; we imported 500,85033; and we exported 2.4 million.
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Hanford produced 67 metric tons of plutonium in all, and was responsible for a large part of the 60,000 nuclear weapons made by the US by 1987.
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Based on that assumption and sales data, I estimate that the new EVs sold in 2015 cut CO₂ emissions by roughly 0.26 million metric tons per year.
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The lander has been "years in development," according to the company's new project webpage, and can reportedly land "multiple metric tons" of payload onto the Moon's surface.
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His engineers are working on the BFR, called the Big Falcon Rocket, a monster that would be capable of taking 85033 metric tons to low Earth orbit.
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Southern California Gas Co. sealed the leak at the Aliso Canyon in February, but not before tens of thousands of metric tons of gas seeped from it.
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It estimates it has saved 90,000 metric tons of CO2 emissions since its founding in 2015, equivalent to that emitted by 19,000 passenger vehicles in one year.
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Over and above that, by 2030 Earthly Labs has a goal of capturing 1 billion metric tons of CO2 emissions or the equivalent of 26 billion trees.
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) reported a net reduction of 100 metric tons in American pork export sales to China in the week ended June 13.
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The Millennium Bulk Terminals project has the potential to expand annual American coal exports by 44 million metric tons — increasing United States export value by $2.5 billion.
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The city estimated that improvements to the energy efficiency of its buildings resulted in an estimated reduction in greenhouse gas emissions of more than 38,000 metric tons.
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While waiting for these next-generation polymers to appear, current commercial plastics are still being pumped out on the scale of 400 million metric tons a year.
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With 8 million metric tons of plastic finding its way into the oceans every year and millions more piling up in landfill, recycling is of vital importance.
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The resolution notes that around 50 million metric tons of e-waste is generated globally per year, with an average of more than 6 kg per person.
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The Founders Pledge report used countries' climate targets and projected policies to estimate how many metric tons of carbon can be saved by avoiding various lifestyle choices.
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While efficiency has improved significantly in the past couple decades, one study estimated the nation's residential laundry carbon dioxide emissions at 179 million metric tons per year.
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A report by the social network shows that it has reduced green house gas emissions by 23% to 339,000 metric tons in the four years since 2014.
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The company said it plans to achieve the ambitious goal by slashing its use of plastics by 100,85033 metric tons in addition to using more recycled plastics.
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Each year since, they emitted roughly 40 million metric tons of carbon dioxide, which is equivalent to the annual pollution of about 10 coal-fired power plants.
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For comparison's sake, the Saturn V stood at 28503 feet, had a diameter of 22020 feet and could put just 140 metric tons into low Earth orbit.
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Unfortunately, no conceivable space effort would justify a super rocket capable of putting 550 metric tons into low Earth orbit in a single launch flying that often.
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The Environmental Defense Fund estimates that the leak emitted more than 90,000 metric tons of natural gas, of which methane is the main component, into the atmosphere.
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The decade also saw the government privatize the Department of Energy's uranium enrichment operations, in the process transferring 22017,000 metric tons of uranium to the new company.
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For tens of thousands of years, permafrost has kept 21.5,21 to 202,245 gigatons (a gigaton is a billion metric tons) of organic matter trapped in the soil.
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Gamble said the technology enables about a 5% reduction in carbon dioxide emissions and has helped to cut over 52,000 metric tons of carbon emissions to date.
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And in 2018, it loaded and unloaded 9,300 metric tons of goods at B.W.I., more than FedEx and U.P.S. combined, though globally their fleets remain far larger.
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Previously, Bloomberg reported that an unnamed source said Apple was seeking contracts to secure several thousand metric tons of cobalt a year for five years or longer.
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At the moment, global CO₂ emissions are about 37 billion metric tons per year, and we're on track to raise temperatures by 3 degrees Celsius by 2100.
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From 2011 through 2013, China used more than 1193 billion metric tons (7.2 billion tons) of cement — more than the US used in the entire 20th century.
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The U.S. Treasury said it was also sanctioning Synergy SAL and BS Company, which have imported tens of thousands of metric tons of Iranian oil into Syria.
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In 2014, the world produced more than 40 million metric tons of discarded electronic goods, or e-waste, according to a report from the United Nations research arm.
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