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Nearly 500 metric tons — roughly 1.1 million pounds — of emergency high-energy biscuits are set to be incinerated on President Donald Trump's order,The Atlantic reported on Monday, July 14.
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Rachel Raposas, People.com, 16 July 2025
The Long March 10 will be China's most powerful rocket to date, with the ability to dispatch 27 metric tons of payload toward the Moon, a number comparable to NASA's Space Launch System.
—ArsTechnica, 11 July 2025
British multinational research firm BMI expects global copper mine production to increase at an average annual rate of 2.9% from 2025 to 2034, with annual output rising from 23.8 million metric tons in 2025 to 30.9 million metric tons by 2034.
—Victor Loh,amala Balakrishner, CNBC, 10 July 2025
The world produces so much plastic (more than 400 million metric tons a year, according to one estimate—roughly the combined weight of every human alive) that degraded nubbins coat the planet, detectable in the sedimentary depths of the Mariana Trench and the icy heights of Mount Everest.
—Annie Lowrey, The Atlantic, 7 July 2025
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Rachel Raposas, People.com, 16 July 2025
The Long March 10 will be China's most powerful rocket to date, with the ability to dispatch 27 metric tons of payload toward the Moon, a number comparable to NASA's Space Launch System.
—ArsTechnica, 11 July 2025
British multinational research firm BMI expects global copper mine production to increase at an average annual rate of 2.9% from 2025 to 2034, with annual output rising from 23.8 million metric tons in 2025 to 30.9 million metric tons by 2034.
—Victor Loh,amala Balakrishner, CNBC, 10 July 2025
The world produces so much plastic (more than 400 million metric tons a year, according to one estimate—roughly the combined weight of every human alive) that degraded nubbins coat the planet, detectable in the sedimentary depths of the Mariana Trench and the icy heights of Mount Everest.
—Annie Lowrey, The Atlantic, 7 July 2025
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“Metric ton.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/metric%20ton. Accessed 24 Jul. 2025.
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