Now there are so many,experts say up to twenty metric tons a day could be removed with nets ver a period of several years.

VOA: special.2009.12.15

"The present canal has a total capacity of about three hundred and forty million tons a year that it can handle, that's the maximum capacity.

VOA: special.2011.08.08

But it threatens more than thirty million tons a year of production in East Africa.

VOA: special.2010.06.08

And that sort of geared me up for a whole series of novels where I do tons of research, even though I write fiction, which is supposed to be made up,right?"

VOA: special.2009.10.12

Rice is a staple food in Cuba and the country consumes more than 700,000 tons of rice a year.

VOA: standard.2010.07.29

Clearing the soil, arranging tons of sand colored rocks and then planting everything took nearly a month.

VOA: standard.2010.08.09

A total of 30 small-scale pineapple farmers in Ghana saw sales grow from 26 tons to more than 115 tons after gaining their organic certification.

VOA: standard.2010.04.11

First,he had 1,500 tons of debris removed from a Russian field station in Antarctica.

VOA: standard.2009.12.10

West Africa's mangrove forests absorb thousands of tons of carbon dioxide, and could be a way for the region to get a foothold in the $136-billion carbon world market.

VOA: standard.2010.03.29

The Philippines this week said it is cutting rice imports because of high prices, even though the country lost more than a million tons of grain to typhoons this year.

VOA: standard.2009.12.17

Cassela says the World Food Program has delivered 117 metric tons of food to the region this month and hopes to deliver a total of 435 metric tons in August.

VOA: standard.2009.08.08

Officials with the U.S.Agency for International Development said they were preparing to send a response team that includes 72 people, six search and rescue dogs and 48 tons of rescue equipment.

VOA: standard.2010.01.13

Market experts say next year India is likely to try to import three million tons of rice tapping the world market for the first time in 21 years because of a drought.

VOA: standard.2009.12.17

Officials from Vietnam, a leading export competitor with Thailand, predict prices will reach about This week the Philippines' National Food Authority offered almost $665 a ton for 600,000 tons of Vietnamese rice.

VOA: standard.2009.12.17

Economists say India's purchase of 200 tons of gold shows that the country has come a long way in the two decades since it was on the verge of defaulting on its international debt.

VOA: standard.2009.11.06

The United Nations Environment Program said many inhabitants of towns in northeast Somalia suffered from diseases consistent with radiation sickness following a Tsunami in 2004, that may have stirred up tons of nuclear and toxic waste.

VOA: standard.2009.10.30