Saturday, September 24, 2011

The Week In Green Numbers

2 kilometres

- fishing exclusion zone around Dounreay Nuclear Plant in Scotland #

73 million

- sharks harvested every year, mainly for shark fin soup. Shark fins are tasteless. #

200 trillion cubic feet

- shale gas discovered in Lancashire, England #

30 million

- people displaced by environmental and weather disasters in 2010 #

45%

- increase in global CO2 emissions between 1990 and 2010 #

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