Example Sentences

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It revealed 10  protected forests had emitted more carbon than they locked away over the past 20 years.

From BBC • Oct. 27, 2021

Torres said the volcano had emitted roughly three times the material expelled during the island's last major eruption in 1971, in a quarter of the time.

From Reuters • Oct. 4, 2021

Last year, Page and her colleagues found that by 2015, drained peatlands had emitted about 80 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide — and that this cumulative amount would roughly triple by 21006.

From Nature • Feb. 11, 2020

In an email chain that month, Reilly was asked by interior’s former deputy chief of staff Downey Magallanes to sign off on a statement that fires in 2018 had emitted 95.6m tons of CO2.

From The Guardian • Jan. 24, 2020

There seemed to be no substance to the shadow Bahumat had emitted.

From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull