Some 900 million metric tons of coarse grains are grown annually worldwide and a further 300 million metric tons of grain is produced for the oil in its seeds.
Floating on the oceans every year are 7,659 trillion metric tons of ice encased in 10000 icebergs that break away from the polar ice caps, more than ninety percent of them from Antarctica.
Nigeria's president Muhammadu Buhari this week directed emergency responders to scale up their interventions and set up to 12 metric tons of grains are being shipped to help curb the impact of the floods.
Methane is the second most prevalent greenhouse gas and one company GHGSat found on a single day in March as trash decomposed more than two metric tons of methane gas leaked every hour from the Ghazipur landfill.
The US Inflation Reduction Act is helping create a market for carbon capture and storage by increasing tax credits to $85 per metric ton of carbon stored.
We do know that there's about eight million metric tons of plastic overall that ends up in the world's oceans every year and that's kind of thought to be one garbage truck worth per mile of beach per day.