A study found that a strong nifio in 1997-98 helped America's economy grow by 15 billion, partly because of better agricultural harvest, farmers in the midwest gained from extra rain.

Americans use more than 100 billion thin film plastic bags every year.

If you want to disturb the car industry, you'd better have a few billion dollars: mom-and-pop carmakers are unlikely to beat the biggest car companies.

The global population is expected to grow to 9.6 billion by 2050.

The most recent powerful nino, in 1997-98, killed around 21, 000 people and caused damage worth $36 billion around the globe.

19 billion in 2011 to £1.

12 billion in 2015, according to a new report from market research company Mintel.

11 billion in 2016.

Yet the cost we project for saving civilization would amount to less than $200 billion a year, 1/6 of current global military spending.

We must cut carbon emissions by 80% from their 2006 levels by 2020, stabilize the world's population at eight billion by 2040, completely remove poverty, and restore forests and soils.

A recent report suggests that the global gamification market will grow from $1.65 billion in 2015 to $11.1 billion by 2020.

Last week, for example, Postmaster General Pat Donahoe announced plans to stop mail delivery on Saturdays, a move he says could save three billion dollars annually.

Rachel Botsman, the author of a book on the subject, says the consumer peer-to-peer rental market alone is worth $ 26 billion

could save $10 billion to $24 billion annually in health care costs

billion in American high schools, helping to open about 1,000 small schools-most of them with about 400 kids each with an average enrollment of only 150 per grade, About 500 more are on the drawing board.

With the world's population estimated to grow from six to nine billion by 2050, researchers.

Global warming is causing more than 300,000 deaths and about $125 billion in economic losses each year, according to a report by the Global Humanitarian Forum, an organization led by Annan, the former United Nations secretary general.

The $11 billion self-help industry is built on the idea that you should turn negative thoughts like I never do anything right into positive ones like I can succeed

1 billion worldwide who live with unsafe drinking water.

About a million bottles are bought every minute, not only by thirsty tourists but also by many of the 2.1 billion worldwide who live with unsafe drinking water.

Furthermore, the future of the market looks far from rosy, with sales expected to fall further to £1.11 billion in 2016.

In 2018 alone, wildfires, volcanic eruptions, hurricanes, mudslides, and other natural disasters cost at least $49 billion in the United States.

It has shrunk from £1.19 billion in 2011 to £1.12 billion in 2015, according to a new report from market research company Mintel.

Lost income alone amounts to $225 billion a year.

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

Over $25 billion was appropriated by Congress, and construction began on about 40,000 miles of new roads.

Textbooks represent an 11 billion dollar industry, up from $8 billion in 2014.

This proposal could save Medicare more than $100 billion over the next decade.

That falls far short of the billions of dollars people once expected it to generate.

It estimated that step would save hundreds of billions of dollars over the next decade.

In America the kitchen market is now worth $170 billion, five times the country's film industry.

What happens to the centralized electric grid, which took decades and billions of dollars to build, as more and more people become prosumers, who produce and consume their own energy on-site?No one knows which – if any – battery technology will ultimately dominate, but one thing remains clear: The future of energy is in how we store it.

Today, energy storage is a $33 billion global industry that generates nearly 100 gigawatt-hours of electricity per year.

Today's battery breakthroughs come as the world looks to expand modern energy access to the billion or so people without it, while also cutting back on fuels that warm the planet.

More than $100 billion in funding has been put on the table for supporting developing nations to reduce emissions.

By the end of the decade, it's expected to be worth over $50 billion and generate 160 gigawatt-hours, enough to attract the attention of major companies that might not otherwise be interested in a decidedly pedestrian technology.

And while assessments vary widely, geologists estimate that Antarctica holds at least 36 billion barrels of oil and natural gas.

This means that there could be an extra three billion mouths to feed by the end of the century, a period in which substantial changes are anticipated in the wealth, calorie intake and dietary preferences of people in developing countries across the world.

Today, we produce about four billion metric tonnes of food per year

He said \Monsanto should not be able, just because they've got billions of dollars to spend on legal fees, to try to terrify farmers into obeying their agreements by massive force and threats.

Amazon plants, for instance, hold more than 100 billion metric tons of carbon, equal to 15 years of tailpipe and chimney emissions.

billion metric tons of carbon into the atmosphere each year - making forests the leading source of greenhouse gases

Each burning season in the Amazon, fires deliberately set by frontier settlers and developers hurl up almost half a billion metric tons of carbon a year, placing Brazil among the top five contributors to greenhouse gases in the world.

In addition, almost all of the 532 billion the federal government provides for university research is awarded competitively.

Department of Energy recently proposed putting $1 billion into a new $

billion coal-burning energy plant.

Today, the European Union is creating a $580 billion fund to ward off sovereign collapse

billion in the month, are subtracted in the calculation of gross domestic product.

Bringing any new technology on the market, on average, costs $1 billion

Er, the French railways lose 1 billion ponds a year.

The German railways, 2 billion ponds a year

A billion people are living in slums, not the same billion people, but there is some overlap.

All researches agree that close to 25 billion devices, things and sensors will be connected by 2020 which incidentally is also the moment that millennials are expected to make up 75 percent of our overall workforce, and the fully connected home will becom

And lack of recovery一whether by disrupting sleep with thoughts of work or having continuous cognitive arousal by watching our phones一is costing our companies $62 billion a year in lost productivity.

Annually, the world generates 1.3 billion tons of solid waste.

By the end of the decade, it's expected to be worth over $50 billion and generate 160 gigawatt-hours, enough to attract the attention of major companies that might not otherwise be interested in a decidedly pedestrian technology.

Despite being the continent's second-largest producer of tomatoes, Nigeria is dependent on $1 billion worth of tomato-paste imports every year, as around 75% of the local harvest goes to waste thanks to a lack of proper storage facilities.

Globally, urban populations are expected to double in the next 40 years, and an extra 2 billion people will need new places to live, as well as services and ways to move around their cities.

However, despite 2 billion people worldwide already supplementing their diet with insects, consumer disgust remains a large barrier in many western countries.

In 2015, gaming produced $23.5 billion in domestic revenue.

More than $100 billion in funding has been put on the table for supporting developing nations to reduce emissions.

Nearly a billion people are illiterate.

Office workers do around 2 billion hours of unpaid overtime each year.

right now, a billion people are chronically hungry.

The market for products designed specifically for older adults could reach $30 billion by next year, and startups want in on the action.

The surface formed mostly in the last billion years, which makes it fresher and more recently active than any rocky planet other than Earth.

This sounds like so much hot air, but the near $13 billion fortune this entrepreneur has amassed comes from practical achievements rather than hypothetical ones.

Today about 1.9 billion Cokes are purchased daily.

Today, energy storage is a $33 billion global industry that generates nearly 100 gigawatt-hours of electricity per year.

Today's battery breakthroughs come as the world looks to expand modern energy access to the billion or so people without it, while also cutting back on fuels that warm the planet.

Together, the value of these metals is estimated to be about $52 billion.

with more than $12 billion in sales this year, the industry is booming and, according to the market research company, Grand view Research, is on track to sell billions more by 2025.

For example, wholesale food and drink sales came to $268 billion in France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom in 2000—more than 40 percent of retail sales.

Not only did they develop such a device but by the turn of the millennium they had also managed to embed it in a worldwide system accessed by billions of people every day.

Americans, she finds, buy roughly 20 billion garments a year – about 64 items per person – and no matter how much they give away, this excess leads to waste.

The largest firms in America and Britain together spend more than $15 billion a year on CSR, according to an estimate by EPG, a consulting firm.

3 billion for the UK in invisible exports and our other education related explores earn up to &10 billion a year more.

That common-sense change enjoys wide public support and would save the USPS $2 billion per year.

Meanwhile, it has more than $120 billion in unfunded liabilities, mostly for employee health and retirement costs.

Legislation is moving through the House that would save USPS an estimated $286 billion over five years, which could help pay for new vehicles, among other survival measures.

It reported a net loss of $5.6 billion for fiscal 2016, the 10th straight year its expenses have exceeded revenue.

\Our products succeed when they become part of daily or weekly patterns,\ said Carol Berning, a consumer psychologist who recently retired from Procter and Gamble, the company that sold $76 billion of tide, Crest and other products last year.

Americans, she finds, buy roughly 20 billion garments a year-about 64 items per person一and no matter how much they give away, this excess leads to waste.

At its peak in 2007, it was worth some $65 billion, reckons Clare McAndrew, founder of Arts Economics, a research firm—double the figure five years earlier.

For example, wholesale food and drink sales came to $268 billion in France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom in 2000— more than 40 percent of retail sales.

In 2015, the US Forest Service for the first time spent more than half of its $5.5 billion annual budget fighting fires——nearly double the percentage it spent on such efforts 20 years ago.

Legislation is moving through the House that would save USPS an estimated $28.6 billion over five years, which could help pay for new vehicles, among other survival measures.

since then it may have come down to $50 billion.

That common- sense change enjoys wide public support and would save the USPS $2 billion per year.

The power and ambition of the giants of the digital economy is astonishing - Amazon has just announced the purchase of the upmarket grocery chain Whole Foods for $13.5 billion, but two years ago Facebook paid even more than that to acquire the WhatsApp me