However, Soren Andreasen, a social scientist at Dalberg Global Development Partners who supervised the writing of the report, defended it, saying that it was clear that the numbers were rough estimates.

Its rough estimates are meant to draw the attention of world leaders

New estimates of the water reserves now go up to 2,700 billion cubic meters of freshwater.

This is 10 times the amount this new microwave oven study estimates for annual emissions for all the microwave ovens in the EU.

Among the government's most interesting reports is one that estimates what parents spend on their children.

Energy Usage: Energy is an essential resource across the entire food production cycle, with estimates showing an average of 7-10 calories of input being required in the production of one calorie of food

Former George Washington University president Stephen Trachtenberg estimates that a typical college uses its facilities for academic purposes a little more than half the calendar year.

The department of Environmental Conservation estimates the optimum population at 60.

For example, the United Nations Children's Fund estimates that some 11 million children in Africa face hunger, disease, and water shortages as a result of the strongest El nio weather phenomenon in decades.

While alternative estimates of the damage from carbon emissions differ, and it's especially hard to reckon the likely costs of possible catastrophic climate events, most estimates suggest substantial negative effects.

In December of 1869, Congress appointed a commission to select a site and prepare plans and cost estimates for a new State Department Building.

It is true that CEO pay has gone up-top ones may make 300 times the pay of typical workers on average, and since the mid-1970s CEO pay for large publicly traded American corporations has, by varying estimates, gone up by about 500% The typical CEO of a to