The Week In Green Numbers

104%

- increase in fuel efficiency of US freight trains since 1980 #

35, 894.01 kg

- amount of CO₂ that Leithers have saved #

36 hours

- time it took for the Scottish Boiler Scrappage Scheme to run out of money #

17%

- proportion of honey bee colonies in the UK that didn't survive the winter #

$1 billion and rising

- cost of the clean-up operation in the Gulf of Mexico after the oil "spill" #