But the sight of workers wearing white protective suits and gloves hauling in tons of oil-contaminated waste - including bags of sandy tar balls, vegetation,used oil booms, rags and other clean-up supplies - has caused alarm among some Gulf coast communities.

VOA: standard.2010.08.05

But that does not include costs like the tons of flowers that growers in Kenya and Israel had to destroy.

VOA: special.2010.04.23

But in time, huge machines were built that could wash many tons of dirt at a time.

VOA: special.2010.04.25

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

VOA: special.2010.06.08

Emergency coordinator Javier Escobedo says the organization plans to distribute 500 metric tons of bean seeds to farmers in the area.

VOA: standard.2010.04.02

Of the 400,000 tons of cotton it produced last year, far less than one percent actually stayed in the country.

VOA: standard.2010.03.08

The United States brought in 45 metric tons of plastic sheeting,hygiene kits, and generators to help victims of the Indonesian earthquake.

VOA: standard.2009.10.06

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

The've collected tons of oily waste that's now being dumped in landfills in Alabama,Florida, Louisiana and Mississippi.

VOA: standard.2010.08.05

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

Akhonzadeh said Iran seizes about three tons of opium on its border every day, noting that drug profits are used to fund terrorist networks in Afghanistan.

VOA: standard.2009.03.27

But at the same time, there is virtually no infrastructure in place within Japan to get those tons of food out to individuals out there who need it,".

VOA: standard.2009.09.09

The World Gold Council recently forecast gold mine output to climb by four percent in 2009 to about 2,500 metric tons, but that will meet only two-thirds of demand.

VOA: standard.2010.07.21

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

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

The Reserve Bank has paid The addition of 200 tons of gold means that about six percent of the Reserve Bank's foreign exchange reserves are now in gold, up from four percent.

VOA: standard.2009.11.06

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

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 U.N.World Food Program says it needs $500,000 to bring 250 metric tons of food to Birao next month because supplies that were pre-positioned earlier in the year are not sufficient to meet greater demand.

VOA: standard.2009.08.27