In northern midsummer, the principal plume contained 19,000 metric tons of methane, with an estimated source strength of 0.6 kilograms per second.

A study in 1999 found one square kilometer (247 acres) of Amazon rainforest can contain about 90,790 tonnes of living plants.

It's being produced in large amounts, 150 to 180 metric tons per year in the Canary Islands in Peru, and it's big business.

In the 1820s, Brazil exported 11,000 tons of cacao and by 1880 this had increased to 73,500 tons.

It made 1432 runs with 300 metric tons of cargo until 1945.

Yes, 1.3 billion tons is a mindboggling figure.

planted in 2006 and a production of 384,000 tons.

After a disastrous harvest in 2001 (113,000 metric tons), production rebounded to 168,000 metric tons in 2002.

And it puts 18 thousand tons of carbon dioxide in the air.

are most dangerous in upland rice of all parts of the world.

Despite being taller than the Eiffel Tower, Tokyo Tower only weighs about 4,000 tons, 3,300 tons less than the Eiffel Tower.

This compares with a total demand for diesel in the US and Europe of approximately 490 million tonnes (147 billion gallons).

In 2002, 17,000 tons of synthetic indigo were produced worldwide.

During the wet season, Titicaca overflows and discharges into Poopó, which, in turn, floods Salar De Coipasa and Salar de Uyuni.

In 1990, Mexico and Spain were the world's main producers of natural sodium sulfate (each around 500,000 tonnes), with Russia, United States and Canada around 350,000 tonnes each.

A large part of U.S. olive oil imports come from Italy, Spain, and Turkey.

The Carajás Mine, on which Vale still has over 1.5 billion tonnes of iron ore in reserves, started to have Vale as a majority stakeholder in 1970.

Copper Vale's copper production began in the first half of 2004, with the start up of the Sossego Mine, whose average installed capacity is 140 thousand tons per year of copper in concentrate.

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You know in 1950 the typical ship carried 5,000 to 10,000 tons worth of goods.

You get some sense of the size 44 meters wide, 22 meters in diameter, 7,000 tons.

Several coal mines are also still situated in the area, with reserves being estimated at four billion tons.

Each of the sister ships has a capacity of over , a length overall of and a cargo capacity of .

However, by 1991 Mirabel and Dorval were only handling a total of 8 million passengers and 112,000 tons of cargo annually, while Toronto was handling 18.5 million passengers and 312,000 tons of cargo.

An estimated 59 metric tons (130,000 pounds) are used in the Boeing 777, 45 in the Boeing 747, 18 in the Boeing 737, 32 in the Airbus A340, 18 in the Airbus A330, and 12 in the Airbus A320.

Agriculture According to IBGE, the greatest productions are banana (30 tonnes in 2003), sugar cane (133 tonnes in 2003), onion (610 tonnes in 2003), beans (15 tons in 2003), cassava (70 tonnes in 2003), maize (240 tons in 2003), tomatoes (3691 tonnes in 2003).

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The first fission ( atomic ) bomb test released the same amount of energy as approximately 20,000 tons of TNT (see Trinity (nuclear test)).

Around 52 billion coins , with a total value of Euros 15.75 billion , were produced by 16 European mints , using 250,000 tonnes of metal .

They tracked down 68 tons of ore in Belgium and 30 tons in France.

ROME Every year, we waste or lose 1.3 billion metric tons of food one third of the world s annual food production.

Today a container ship can carry 150,000 tons it can be manned with a smaller crew and unloaded faster than ever before.

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It was 23 metric tons for one liter.

This stone weighs five tons.

Eventually, 14,700 tons were used.

The English took her after a fierce day long battle near Flores Island in which many Portuguese sailors were killed Among these riches were chests filled with jewels and pearls, gold and silver coins, ambergris, rolls of the highest quality cloth, fine tapestries, 425 tons of pepper, 45 tons of cloves, 35 tons of cinnamon, 3 tons of mace and 3 of nutmeg, 2.5 tons of benjamin (a highly aromatic balsamic resin used for perfumes and medicines), 25 tons of cochineal and 15 tons of ebony.

Worldwide consumption As of 2009 world food consumption of rice was 531.6 million metric tons of paddy equivalent (354,603 of milled equivalent), while the far largest consumers were China consuming 156.3 million metric tons of paddy equivalent (29.4 of the world consumption) and India consuming 123.5 million metric tons of paddy equivalent (23.3 of the world consumption).